Luna Miel

So much has happened in the last few months and I plan to fill you in on everything one piece at a time. So in no particular order I´m going to blog about all that stuff, so here we go.



Let´s start with the honeymoon. After we bought our plane tickets to California we thought we weren´t going to be able to have a honeymoon. But my mother and fabulous travel agent encouraged us to start a honeymoon registry and with the generousity of our family and friends we ended up having an amazing honeymoon. Originally we planned to road trip around California because it seemed like the most economical idea. But in the end our fabulous travel agent was able to snag us a great deal on a cruise to Mexico and Catalina Island.















This was Coco´s first cruise and it was amazing to see somebody experience cruising for the first time. I think he was most captivated by all of the food (especially the 24hr pizza bar and all of the ice cream).









Our cruise left from Long Beach where I went to school at CSULB. I never could have imagined as a college student that I would be standing on the cruise ship overlooking the city about to set sail on my honeymoon with my future husband :)













Our first stop was Catalina Island.








I had been there several times before. Once I even had the chance to enjoy it from a local´s perspective when my friend Chrissy (a native Avalon girl) invited me to see her home on the Island. It´s still beautiful everytime I visit, and the day we were there for our honeymoon was no exception.























We walked alot.

































We stopped in a coffee shop.









We made our way to the old casino, which is now a beautiful movie theatre.











We went to Descanso Beach.















Then Chrissy´s dad generously offered his golf cart to us to take a little driving tour of the town. We were super grateful for his offer, and took him up on it. We went to Wrigley Botanical Gardens.































Then we drove around the back side of town and found a great view.



The next day we woke up in Ensenada, Mexico. I have also been here before but I have never seen the city and the country side look so nice. It felt as though it were still spring there and everything was in full bloom. We took a drive out to the Bufadora.





















The Bufadora is a blowhole where the water shoots up from the rocks of the coast and high into the air. I guess there is only a few of them in the world, and I have no idea where the other ones are.









We bought the best Pina Colada we have ever had in our lives and went shopping in the marketplace near the Bufadora. We were offered all kinds of discounts. One discount for being newlyweds, one for being the first sale of the day, and another discount because Coco spoke Spanish. Haha. We also played tricks on them and pretended that he was the gringo and I did all the Spanish talking.























After La Bufadora, we went to a local winery. Yum.























Then we went to the main drag of town and had lots of tacos, chips and salsa, horchata. Delicious.





We had such a great time and we are so happy we had the chance to go. And now we have to go on a diet.

Gracias to you....and you.....and you.....

I promise to write some special details from the wedding when I get the chance. But in summary our wedding was a huge community affair that involved all of our loving friends and family who donated their time, their talents, and even their back yard decor for our big day.

We have so many people to thank...here´s a few...

-All the people who made the journey to our wedding at the top of a mountain in Oakhurst(especially those who came from as far as Peru and England)
-Our site coordinator at Paradise Springs for all of her beyond-the-call-of-duty efforts
-The generous owners of Paradise Springs
-My bridesmaids and all their efforts before, after, and during the wedding, and for being amazing friends to me for many years
-Our Pastor and his family
-Our talented photographer, and her pretty red headed assistant
-The beautiful music of our wedding singer and the use of all of her sound equipment
-The Bunco Babes who prepared all of our food and took care of many of the behind the scenes details
-All of the women who came to the bridal shower
-The sweet hostess of my bridal shower
-People who acted as unofficial translators behind the scenes
-Grandma Chabuca for her beautiful poem, and Patricia for reading the translation
-The people who really let loose on the dance floor (you know who you are, especially the one who split his pants)
-All those who came to rehearsal dinner which was gifted to us by Patricia
-All those who helped decorate
-Those who moved chairs, handled the champagne, etc.
-The chefs taking care of all the meat on the grill
-Those who drank alot
-The friend who helped us order all of our flowers
-Those who came hours before rehearsal to set up
-The lovely lady that printed our invitations and wedding favors
-Our cakemaker (Coco´s mom, Patricia) who made the cutest cake I have ever seen
-All the people who have prayed and continued to pray for us as a couple
-All of my family members that pitched in with anything we asked at any moment
-Our videographer and all the extra ¨picture takers¨
-To the flower girls and their mothers and anyone else who helped get them ¨ready¨ or entertained them during the wedding
-All of the people that consulted us on wedding ideas
-Everyone that donated something
-Special thanks to my parents for the gift of our wedding, for their encouragement, for the hours spent on homemade crafts, for comforting bridezilla when she was convinced it would rain on that day, for setting up, cleaning up, coordinating, making me laugh, giving advice, for dancing like fools with us, for helping with honeymoon planning, for letting us both be your roomates, for letting your house be taken over by wedding clutter for months, and for loving us and supporting us.
-Most importantly thanks to God for all of these blessings and all of the people who have filled our lives with His love and grace.

You guys all rocked our wedding! We love you!

She Takes Pretty Pictures

Our friend Samantha Hall documented our wedding and her images are truly beautiful. She has so much talent and we were honored to have her as our photographer. Here are her pictures from our wedding.

http://www.brightlightblue.com/annie-jorge/


Here is another posting from her blog. Its my favorite set of pictures I have seen thus far in her work, besides my wedding...haha. Enjoy!

http://www.brightlightblue.com/the-bahamas/


Thank you Samantha. We will treasure these photos forever. And special thanks to her assistant Hayley for all the help she pitched in and for her moves on the dance floor. I promise to put honeymoon and Oakhurst pictures up soon. Besitos!

Well, We Got Married

As you can see I left my blog behind so I could marry mi piloto peruano and take care of wedding plans for a few months in California. We just returned from our honeymoon cruise and I don´t feel like writing, but when I return to Peru, expect alot of blogging action. For now you can enjoy the story my friend Jenn wrote on her blog about the day of our wedding. I couldn´t have explained it better, but I will try to add some more behind the scenes details for you all later. Besitos!

http://abridesbrain.blogspot.com/2010/05/real-wedding-annie-coco.html

And here´s a few facebook pics....
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=62293&id=1148232246&l=a920d770e9