Originally, we planned to get married in our hometown of Milwaukee. After doing the research and realizing how much everything was going to cost and how time consuming it would be, I quickly became overwhelmed. One day a co-worker mentioned that someone she knew had gotten married in Jamaica and that it was fairly reasonable cost-wise. I looked into it and I was hooked! After some persuasion, Jason jumped on-board too.

When it came down to a location, I originally wanted Jamaica, but our families didn't want to mess with passports. Then Jason said, why not Hawaii? We started to research and plan for a wedding and honeymoon in Maui, we were so excited. Then our families told us they could not afford to travel to Hawaii. We were devastated. After talking, we decided it was extremely important to have our families be with us on our wedding day, so we went back to the drawing board. We began looking into Florida, but had no idea where to have it. Then one day while on the DW board a knottie, AshNicole331, posted her recent wedding pictures in Siesta Key, FL. As soon as I saw the pictures I knew it was exactly what I had envisioned. Jason agreed and that was that. Neither of us have been there, but Siesta Key is known for it's beautiful white sand beaches and I have heard great things from other knotties who have had their weddings' there. So the date is set! We will be married on June 12th, 2009.