On Destination Weddings

Six months ago (prior to my arrival at Jungle Bay) if you had asked me where I wanted to get married, my rote answer would have been a church. Preferably a Greek Orthodox one, as my surname is Papadopoulos afterall, but that's a different subject for an entirely different blog. If you had asked me five months ago (one month into Jungle Bay) where I wanted to get married I would still have answered a church. If you had asked me four months ago (and so forth until January 2nd, 2007)my answer wouldn't have changed. But ask me today where I want to get married, and I have to admit that Ian and Jeannete (the couple pictured above)and Claire and Fritz (the couple pictured below) have a great thing going on. As I watched (photographed) Ian and Jeannette officially avowing to spend the rest of their lives together while barefoot on a beautiful island beach, with only the Magistrate performing the ceromony, the wedding photographer (me who also served as Witness #1) and the wedding planner (Glenda Raphael aka Witness #2) I was deeply touched.

Now I admit that it's very important that before reaching any final conclusions about locations, venues, florals, and etc. of my wedding, it is imperative that I first find the right person to spend the rest of my life with. But for now, I will concede that the idea of wearing flip flops down my prospective aisle, has a lot of appeal.