Wedding Plans

Izmir, Turkey

I'm getting married. Three weeks to go. After a nightmare of a week running around, basically being the government's bitch, we finally have our permission to tie the knot and thus choose a date. As it turns out, August 4, 2010 will be a pretty important day for me!

So now the running around begins... We wanted a small wedding. Just a few people, family and friends..... no such luck. Okay, it IS small, compared with many... probably about 50 people will come. But still, the amount of work we have to put into planning it is fairly large. The good news is, we don't have 6 months to stew over all of it. We'll just put our heads down, get stuff done and in three weeks we can relax! Not a bad deal. Besides, our honeymoon will be in a place called Olympos named after the Gods. It's in Southern Turkey along the sea. Long white beaches, green hills, and houses in the trees. Gonna be awesome!

Also, consider this an open invitation for anyone who wants to come. It looks like a return flight is going for about $1200 with only one stop over. So that itself is not so bad for Turkey. If any of ya'll have some vacation time and want to head out here, send me an email wcarne@gmail.com and I will help you find a good ticket and a place to stay!

That's it for now, just a quick update. I don't imagine I'll write much in the next few weeks, but I'll try to get back to things in August. Still not sure where I'll be off to in September but Oman and Istanbul are the front runners. Will let you all know!

Also, I have published the first of many prospective travel articles based on this trip. If you'd like to read it, the first is online at www.travelmag.co.uk/?p=2215. Hopefully I will be able to get it published in a few more places as I go.