We got married the day after Christmas, in Sao Paulo, Brazil at the Casa da Fazenda. The best part of the wedding (aside, of course, from the whole bit about getting married) was that my mom did all of the planning while we just got updates here in California.

For anyone who’s planning on getting married, I highly recommend this approach.

We were not as smart when planning for our honeymoon. We decided that since we had friends and family flying from the US, that we’d all go up to my parents house in Bahia.

That was actually a great idea, their place is awesome and it felt like being in paradise.

The bad part was that we decided to rent a bus to get all of us there so that our guests could see other parts of Brazil.

The drive up took three days, we couldn’t stand the sight of the bus by the end of it. Luckily, we had planned to fly back to Sao Paulo.