Ok, so we started in Greece.
A quick browse online and some fancy spreadsheet calculations and we figured out - HOLY CANOLI Greece is expensive!
Now, it wouldn't be all that expensive for us. We plan on staying a bit. And once you are there, the hotels and food aren't so bad. The flights were a deal breaker. We can't ask people to spend over $2K per person for a 4 day stay. If everyone was going to stay a week+... that would be a different story.
Next, we travelled to Florida.
We looked into Destin, the Keys, Ft. Lauderdale, Orlando... You name it, we looked. (Again, we aren't "looking" until June.) Those lucky Georgia folks would have had it easy. There were problems with all of these locations. Our main problem, the hotels were expensive and trying to organize food and/or restaurants for everyone would be a nightmare. Also, those places wanted head counts already. This frustrated Carly. (Seriously, people haven't been invited yet let alone RSVP'd!!)
We headed a bit further south to Aruba.
We poked around the Caribbean for a while but Aruba really stood out. Flights from Dallas and Atlanta were pretty good. But as soon as we started to dig into the resorts, we started finding problems; "all-inclusives" that didn't include lunch or drinks, places that didn't do receptions, couples only resorts, and some places that recently got some shady reviews.
We are currently peaking, without looking, at Punta Cana.
We are trying not to get our hopes up... We are still looking for September 2012 - so everyone will have plenty of time to save. Yes, we have heard that September is hurricane season but we've thought about that and done our homework.
So keep saving your pennies but you can now afford to treat yourself to a dinner out once in a while, keeping in mind that these are all bathing suit locations. :)
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