Congrats Tom & Amy!

This fun couple was married just the other day at Lime Tree Beach - very simple, just the two of them! I loved this photo of them walking up the aisle together - they were so cute!

Viva Las Vegas!

Island Bliss Weddings is in fabulous Las Vegas this week to attend the wedding MBA. It's been very informative, not to mention fun. Being in Vegas reminded me of a thank you card my husband received from a bride & groom last year and I just had to post it and show you. The Virgin Islands Montessori School puts on a Las Vegas Night fundraiser every year and one of the staff wanted to actually get married at Las Vegas night and have an Elvis impersonator as the officiate. Who better than my husband, Stuart Scott, of USVI Services?? Didn't he make a great Elvis?



Better than these bozo's that I met on the street yesterday.

Back to normal....

Things on St. Thomas...or at least for me (I think St. Thomas is as normal as ever, if you can consider St. Thomas normal!), are getting back to normal. I finally have internet back at my home & office. I do apologize for the lack of blog posts, but for the past few weeks, I've had to find Wi-Fi hot spots to download & send emails. I'm hoping those days are behind me!

I wanted to share a few images of what Hurricane Earl did to St. Thomas. We were really lucky - things could have been much, much worse. Just a lot of trees down (our landscaping was a mess!) and power lines. Some people just got their cable fixed last week.

View from my hotel room, this was probably the worst of the storm...



Conditions of the roads the next day...




Beautiful Magen's Bay



We actually had two weddings cancel because of the Hurricane. And I have never had a wedding cancel due to weather - usually just fiances that turn out to be jerks (am I allowed to say that!?). I have always been able to tell cruise ship brides that we've never had a ship not come to port but that's no longer the case. Do you think it will be comforting to clients if I tell them there is a greater chance that they'll call off the engagement then the ship not coming to port??? =)

Hurricane Earl

Please be patient with us as we deal with the aftermath of Hurricane Earl. My office is still without power but I am travelling wherever I need to be to get internet connection and get caught up on emails. A huge apology to any clients that received 10 or more emails in a row from us! Not sure if that happened or not, but we had about 20 messages stuck in our outbox yesterday and they finally all sent - but not sure if they sent multiple times. Ugh, technology. One day I'll grasp it. =)

I'll post some pictures of the storm and it's aftermath in my next post and HOPEFULLY it will be the last hurricane related post of the season!! Fingers crossed....