Hurricane Shmurricane

You might be a little concerned about the fact that Hurricane Earl has passed right through the Caribbean, and has even gotten dangerously close to St. Thomas, the place where I hope to see your smiling faces in a few short months. While St. Thomas is often disrupted by hurricanes during certain parts of the year, we've based the timing of our wedding on when this will not be a threat, and from November to June we're good to go. Which means no one can use that as an excuse not to come.

So, take a good look at that photo up there, with all the wind and rain and cold, and then give me a high five when you see me next, because I had to twist Bill's arm to schedule our wedding for non-hurricane season (Bill's a risk taker, as you may know, and I'm a liiiiittle more cautious as you also may know).

Flights to St. Thomas

So here is the first post regarding flights to St. Thomas. First, I want to point out that you don't have to worry about the very disturbing thing happening in this image - very few men wear speedos these days (thank goodness), so please don't let this horrific possibility deter you from coming. Oh, and also, the plane doesn't come in this low in St. Thomas - this photo is from St. Maarten.

Anyhoo, back to the flights. A couple recommendations: I think the best sites to look for flights are Bing Travel and Kayak because they compare a bunch of cheap comparison sites, so they're worth checking out.

For those of you coming from New York, it's looking like the consistently cheapest flight is with American, and it's around $350 round trip. I'm not sure how long that will last, so consider this your fair warning.

For those of you coming from California or elsewhere on the west coast, you'll need to do a little prioritizing and here's why - the cheapest flights ($420) appear to be out of LAX, but they include a ridiculously long layover (like, 9 hours) which might be awesome if you've always wanted to check out Philadelphia, and who hasn't wanted to spend a few hours in the City of Brotherly Love? If you wanna kick in an extra $60 for the flight you can cut your layover time down to 2 hours and stop in Miami. Out of other major airports there are some similar prices, but so far I've found that LAX is the cheapest, so it might be worth it to drive a few hours to get there and take advantage of the prices. So basically what I'm telling you is that you're going to have to finagle a little bit, but you Californians are so resourceful I have full confidence you'll be able to sort it out. If you have any questions, please feel free to give me a call and I will be more than happy to search for the most competitive rates for your specific scenario.

In all of these searches, keep in mind that you're going to Charlotte Amalie airport, whose airport code is STT.

Did that help at all? Probably not really, but you DID get to see a fun picture with speedos, and now you know the St. Thomas airport code.

St. Thomas!

Bill and I have decided on our wedding location, and we are really excited that it's going to be on St. Thomas, one of the US Virgin Islands in the beautiful Caribbean. There were lots of reasons for this decision - it didn't seem fair to make the New Yorkers travel to California, or to make the Californians travel to New York, and we didn't want to make it even-steven and force everyone to meet in the middle because who wants to go to a wedding in Kansas? (No offense, Kansas) Besides that, Bill and I were lukewarm in wedding planning for the first few weeks of our engagement - none of the ideas we threw around felt quite right and we weren't as excited as we thought we'd be at the thought of planning such an exciting event.


Until we considered a destination wedding. We love the idea of being married on a tropical island, in warm weather at the end of what will undoubtedly be a cold New York winter, with as many friends and family members who are willing and able to make the trip. It all just seemed like the perfect answer for us, and since then, we've been over the moon and so very eager to plan a memorable experience for everyone who can make it over.


So, I'm really sorry to do this to all of you, but if you want to be there to see Bill and I get married you're going to have to fly here:


Again, I apologize.