Hi all! Wanted to ask some advice but figured I'd give some back story first:
My boy and I are both stationed in Germany, both active duty Air Force. We met in 2011, dated for a while, decided to move in together last fall, and a month after we moved into our place BOOM they shipped my butt to the desert. Fun times, right? Well, we've been throwing around the "M" word for a little while now (since before I left), and when I get home I know he's gonna be waiting with a ring.
So now comes the hard part. We live in Germany, his family is from Idaho, my family is from New York. I'm due to leave Germany summer of 2015, which means we have a little over a year to plan a wedding if we want any chance of being stationed together at our next base. So we're leaning toward a LI wedding and maybe a reception in my parents backyard. We're not exactly raking in the money, the savings from my deployment will probably pay for most of the costs of the wedding and whatever else we can scrape together will go towards flying his family to NY.
So now, my question. We would like to do a beach ceremony (pretty convenient I grew up on an island, huh?) but I don't know good locations around Islip. Has anyone been to a LI beach wedding? Any suggestions? Also, any suggestions on planning a wedding from another continent?