Comments on: Taking on New Challenges

By: Stanmoreldi

Stanmoreldi — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 15:54:10 +0000

Europe, and in Ancient Russia

By: Karen

Karen — Thu, 02 Jun 2016 16:13:52 +0000

Congrats on your new endeavor! I can’t wait to hear all about the tri!! Wedding planning is so stressful and honestly I don’t quite know how I handled it all! Haha! Best of luck to you! I know it’s going to be beautiful!!!

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Thu, 26 May 2016 13:18:20 +0000

Thank you!!! Glad to be back. The open water fear was the one thing holding me back, and I figured if I could get over my fear of running a marathon (or the Dopey Challenge, for crying out loud, lol) then I could tackle this too.

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Thu, 26 May 2016 13:17:07 +0000

Thanks, Meranda! It sounds like you did exactly what we’re doing as far as the guest list, and honestly, there are a few others I totally would have invited but decided to keep it “just family” for the same reason! I know exactly what you mean. I know it’s an expense and I’ve been trying so hard to make sure that everyone feels like the trip is “worth it”…but even with such a small guest list it’s causing nothing but drama and certain members of the family don’t seem to especially care about celebrating with us. I don’t know how people plan destination weddings for large groups, that’s all I can say!

Thank you! I figure now is as good a time as any to give it a go and see what happens!

By: Juliana Calhoun

Juliana Calhoun — Wed, 25 May 2016 21:12:28 +0000

yay-so glad you are back! and congrats on the tri training!! this is definitely something I want to try out soon but also need to get over my fear of swimming in open water as well!

By: Meranda@Fairytalesandfitness

Meranda@Fairytalesandfitness — Wed, 25 May 2016 21:07:40 +0000

I think you are very smart to not be training for a marathon now. You deserve to just enjoy this time around wedding planning!
Vacation destinations can be hard to plan and not make it feel like an obligation to folks cus let’s face it, it is quite the expense for everyone involved. That’s one reason we only had family and out “best” friends at our Disney wedding. I didn’t want it to feel like an obligation and those people were happy to come. However, afterwards I found out there were others that would have wanted to come but I didn’t invite them.( I thought I was sparing them the expense). This thought still haunts me an is one of my biggest regrets.

Good luck with the tri. You are very brave with that swimming!