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My First Night as a Married Woman...

...will be spent here!






Jacob called and booked the room yesterday... I'm just hoping that we aren't so tired that night that we can't enjoy the jacuzzi tub and wonderful views! =)

This is the SECOND place we've booked for the wedding night... the first turned out to be a bit of a mess. I'd been browsing around hotels in the area (online) and wasn't able to find anything "special" enough that wasn't going to cost more than I felt we should have to pay (and I really don't want to spend our wedding night in the same hotel as our family... if you knew my family you'd understand). And then I started thinking about beach houses and how I didn't need a fancy hotel room, but a cozy little place to stay for the night and watch with the waves with my new husband.

Beach houses in the area are pretty reasonably priced, especially since it's not a huge touristy spot. HOWEVER, many of them have a two or three night minimum. With our budget and the fact that we're having a Saturday wedding and need to work Monday morning, it just seemed like a waste of money to pay for two nights. However, after finding one house that we liked, we decided to go for it; even though it had a two night minimum, we figured we could rearrange our schedules a little bit.

So we booked it... without knowing that there was an additional booking fee that wasn't clearly stated on their web site. Now, the booking fee was not going to kill us, however we were already spending more than we had budgeted to pay for two nights. When we saw the final cost and I recalculated a bit Jacob and I pretty much determined that we couldn't afford it and should look elsewhere.

There was a cancellation fee, but it was minimal (according to the policy information that I'd seen on their website). I sent off an e-mail stating that I was aware of the cancellation fee and accepted that we'd be paying it, but that we needed to cancel our reservation. I received an e-mail back saying that the cancellation fee that I'd stated was not the current fee, and that the current fee was about 150% of the rate quoted! I looked on their "policy" page on their website again, and, sure enough, there was the small cancellation fee that I had originally seen. So, I sent another e-mail. And got another e-mail back directing me to their policy page!

APPARENTLY going to the policy page from their "home" page took you to a different set of policies than the link from their "reservations" page. I downloaded the policy that I had seen and e-mailed it back to the company. Then I got a phone call.

"I don't know where you got that policy, but it is our old one and no longer valid."

"It was on your website"

"Please hold"............ "The policy page on our website is the new one."

"Do you have the website open??? Go to the reservation page and THEN click on the policies link"

"Please hold"............. "Well, that's our old policy. Did you not see the new one"

"Umm... no."

"I don't know what we can do for you. Our manager is out of the office until Monday so I can't do anything for you until then"

Seriously? I couldn't believe this. It is ON THE WEBSITE! How can they not do anything for me? It's their fuck up, not mine! Thankfully the manager agreed and we got an e-mail the following week telling us that the entire cancellation fee had been refunded to us.

So, happy ending, but still not something I wanted to deal with.

Save the Date.... REVEALED!

Alright! Save the Dates went out on Tuesday and they have started to be received so I feel like now it's o.k. to put it out there in cyberland! =)

As some of you may remember, back in August (on my pre-nniversary in fact!) I won 100 custom save the date cards from Rachel Jasper Designs via The Thirty Something Bride.

Working with Rachel was great. She put together about three different designs for us to look over and then altered slightly the one that we loved so that we'd love it that much more. =)

So... without further ado, here is our Save the Date that went out to family, the wedding party and far-away friends!

Updates

I think this is the longest I've gone without posting! lol.... though, I guess three days isn't really that bad. ;)

A few updates....

I spent a couple of days in BC this weekend. Had a meeting with my academic supervisor regarding my "thesis" that I'm writing next term... found out I have ANOTHER paper I'm suppose to write, too. FML.... stress!

To add to the stress (and lack of time to complete the stressful tasks), I started my new job yesterday. I had a great first day! I really think I'm going to like it there. However, the next 4 months I'm going to have no social life as I try to write TWO papers while working full time. Ugh.

On a wedding note, my save the dates are here, addressed and going in the mail today! Woo hoo! I'm share more about these in a couple days after people have had a chance to get them... I don't want to ruin the surprise for anyone! =)

Mail Call!

Jacob went to get the mail tonight and guess what?? LOTS of great stuff! My Save the Dates, treat/favor bags and UPrinting Poster all came! (And, maybe my wedding shoes... there's one more box in the office that I need to pick up and I'm not EXACTLY sure what it is).

Soooo excited! I'll blog about everything more later (when I have more time (and energy) and after I've mailed off the Save the Date cards)!

Say YES to the Dress!

I just watched about 2.5 hours of a "Say Yes to the Dress" marathon on TLC (I made Jacob change the channel before I kept going!) and I have to say, I love my dress more than ANY of the others that I saw on the show... I wanna put it back on! lol

P.S. I'm in Vancouver, BC right now.... here's a shout out to all you BC brides. I'm loving the sunshine up here right now! =)

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