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rach2686
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Getting To Know You- Holiday Edition!
I have seen a few newbies lately so it's that time again!
Yours and FIs Names:
Yours and FIs Ags:
Wedding Date:
Wedding Location:
What Made You Pick Your Location:
Where Will You Honeymoon:
Do you have a favorite holiday tradition?
What's your favorite holiday treat?
What do you love most about the holiday season?
Do you shop early or wait until the last minute?
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Re: Getting To Know You- Holiday Edition!
Yours and FIs Ags: 27, 31
Wedding Date: 8.12.2013
Wedding Location: St. Thomas, USVI
What Made You Pick Your Location: We live here, so it's really a destination for everyone else, which they're excited about.
Where Will You Honeymoon: No clue! Maybe Spain or Germany?
Do you have a favorite holiday tradition? Pork and sauerkraut on New Years Day. It's a PA Dutch tradition, and I can't live without it!
What's your favorite holiday treat? Pizzelles (Italian waffle cookies)
What do you love most about the holiday season? Decorating and baking. I helped my mom with both of these things growing up, and now I just love them.
Do you shop early or wait until the last minute? Usually early, this year it's last minute!
Yours and FIs Ags: 36 and 38
Wedding Date: 6/17/2013
Wedding Location: Temecula, CA
What Made You Pick Your Location: we love wine country but napa was too snooty/too expensive. Temecula is just as gorgeous and WAY more economical.
Where Will You Honeymoon: not sure yet - somewhere tropical. Fiji or Hawaii or...?
Do you have a favorite holiday tradition? eating way too much food?
What's your favorite holiday treat? My grandma alsways made these lemon cookies that are covered in powdered sugar. yum.
What do you love most about the holiday season? getting together with friends and family I might not have seen in a while.
Do you shop early or wait until the last minute? last minute - online - rush delivery. lol
Yours and FIs Ags:30, 29
Wedding Date: 3/15/13
Wedding Location: Playa del Carmen
What Made You Pick Your Location:we attended a friend's wedding there, and had so much fun. We wanted to go to Punta Cana where I have some family from, but flights were so expensive.
Where Will You Honeymoon: same place
Do you have a favorite holiday tradition? I love our family secret Santa, all the cousins draw one person, and all the adults draw another couple- I think we get to be in the adult drawing for the first time ever, since we're engaged now!
What's your favorite holiday treat? peppermint bark. I crunch it up and put in chocolate chip cookies in place of the chocolate chips
What do you love most about the holiday season? time with my family, plus an excuse to bake TONS of cookies
Do you shop early or wait until the last minute? usually early, but this year I've been a procrastinator.
Yours and FIs Ags: both 27
Wedding Date: December 18, 2012 ( 8 days!!!)
Wedding Location: Limetree Beach Resort St. Thomas USVI
What Made You Pick Your Location: Family wanted to go to the Virgin Islands
Where Will You Honeymoon: Bahamas St Marteen
Do you have a favorite holiday tradition? Making Stockings and putting up the lights after thanksgiving
What's your favorite holiday treat? Mint Brownies!
What do you love most about the holiday season? The family getting together, and the christmas songs on the radio
Do you shop early or wait until the last minute? Not doing any shopping this year but I usually get it done pretty early.
Yours and FIs Ags: 30 & 32
Wedding Date: 2/23/13
Wedding Location: Sandals Negril in Jamaica!
What Made You Pick Your Location: Out of all the places we haven't been to yet, this was the most economically feasible
Where Will You Honeymoon: Staying at Sandals for 8 nights!
Do you have a favorite holiday tradition? With all of us "kids" grown up we are starting new traditions. My favorite from growing up and even til now was hanging my Apple ornament on our tree. I have a small plastic apple which in kindergarten I wrote my name on that I hang every year plus a little golden christmas tree. Each of my siblings have something special that they hang as well.
What's your favorite holiday treat? Everything! lol! I look forward to cookies and popcorn.
What do you love most about the holiday season? The lights/decor and christmas movies!
Do you shop early or wait until the last minute? usually last minute, no matter how hard i try to be early! lol!
Yours and FIs Ags: 30 & 31
Wedding Date: 5/17/14
Wedding Location: Cozumel, Mexico
What Made You Pick Your Location: We absolutely love the island and couldn't imagine going anywhere else. We wanted to share it with everyone else.
Where Will You Honeymoon: No clue, maybe someplace in the south Pacific after FI finishes grad school
Do you have a favorite holiday tradition? We got our first house and our first Christmas tree this year. I'm excited to start a new tradition where we pick out an ornament together, every year that describes our year.
What's your favorite holiday treat? Chocolate covered pretzles
What do you love most about the holiday season? time with family and friends I don't see enough
Do you shop early or wait until the last minute? both really, gotta wait to find the perfect thing
Yours and FIs Ags: Both 30
Wedding Date: April 19, 2013
Wedding Location: Sandals Negril-Jamaica
What Made You Pick Your Location: Beautiful 7-mile beach
Where Will You Honeymoon: Same place
Do you have a favorite holiday tradition? When I lived at home when I was younger, I always helped my mom decorate cookies and treats.
What's your favorite holiday treat? My mom's spritz cookies
What do you love most about the holiday season? The Holiday cheer and giving presents.
Do you shop early or wait until the last minute? I'm kinda in the middle. I don't go early, but will start a few weeks before Christmas. I never go on Black Friday. Yikes!
Yours and FIs Ags: 21 and 23
Wedding Date: December 22, 2012
Wedding Location: Walt Disney World
What Made You Pick Your Location: We are huge Disney fans and absolutely love being on property.
Where Will You Honeymoon: Max is surprising me!
Do you have a favorite holiday tradition?: I love baking Christmas cookies and picking out the tree!
What do you love most about the holiday season?: the lights!
Do you shop early or wait until the last minute?: Early. Always!
Yours and FIs Names: Tiffany, Greg
Yours and FIs Ags: T(34), G (36)
Wedding Date: April 12, 2013
Wedding Location: Las Vegas
What Made You Pick Your Location: We wanted someone where fun and where people could go to the wedding and have a vacation.
Where Will You Honeymoon: we will be in Vegas for a week then in Dec 2013 we go on a Eastern Caribbean Cruise
Do you have a favorite holiday tradition? decorating, watching christmas movies
What's your favorite holiday treat? none
What do you love most about the holiday season? being around family and friends
Do you shop early or wait until the last minute? both
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Yours and FIs Ags: 23 & 30
Wedding Date: May 8, 2013
Wedding Location: Big Island, Hawaii
What Made You Pick Your Location: No reason in particular
Where Will You Honeymoon: Mediterranean
Do you have a favorite holiday tradition? Baking exchange amongst friends
What's your favorite holiday treat? Turtles
What do you love most about the holiday season? All the decorations & music
Do you shop early or wait until the last minute? Usually early, except I am slacking this year!