Well, I have finally returned from wedding + honeymoon and for the next several days (depending on how much I write per day) I will write all about our trip since we did not bring a camera. Writing down all of our adventures will serve as the non-pictorial documentation of our fabulous trip!

I must say, that despite the fact that neither my husband or I had attended a wedding reception, everything went perfectly. I wouldn’t recommend planning a wedding while a full-time student, however, we were extremely blessed in both the beautiful ceremony and awesome reception.

I admit that I was nervous about the whole event, especially due to the lack of knowledge about weddings. Another silly anxiety of mine was that the guests would find the wedding cheap and lame because of our graduate student budget. Once again, we were very blessed and had financial help for 1/2 of the reception and most of the florist’s cost. In total, it amounted to ~$8000 or less (including the honeymoon), $5000 was for the reception alone. I personally do not think that is cheap, but by today’s silly cultural standards it is… especially since many couples spend on average of at least $20,000 and that does not even include the honeymoon. Isn’t that insane?

I will begin to explain the title soon, however, I must tend to my disaster-zone of an apartment and return it to its previous state of semi-cleanliness =)

In short: the wedding and week in the Mayan Riviera was absolutely amazing until Friday night where we spent several miserable hours curled up on the floor of the Chicago airport underneath the up escalator…