Well some of you know and some of you don't, but we did not get 1st place in the honeymoon contest.
We did however land in quite a proud and respectable spot. Having garnered over 5000 of your votes we landed in the top 3. We were 170 votes down from 1st, but over 3,000 votes ahead of 4th place! We won a nice gift card and more excitingly will be able to plant a tree in the name of each of our wedding guests.
When we started this we were very apprehensive to turn this site into contest central and send our friends and loved ones pestering emails. We thought we could be nothing but a nuisance. While we are sure that there are some folks that won't disagree with that statement, we were taken off-guard and astonished by the overwhelming outpour of support from all of you. Not only did so many of you take time out of your day to vigilantly vote for us, but many of you even put your names on the line to ask support from your friends, readers and colleagues. When you feel raised up by that kind of support, it puts everything in perspective. In this "dog eat dog world" where pessimism and fear are broadcast on every news program, we have been swarmed with love from those that know us well to those whom we may never meet.
Trips will come and go, and whatever we do for our honeymoon rest assured great memories will be made, but the people you surround yourself with are the barometer for the quality of your life. We could not possibly be richer.
Thank you so much. We can only hope that you are all as lucky as we are.
Thank you, Hunter and Dana
*We now return to regularly scheduled bloggramming (that sounds dirty!). I've been travelling for a wedding but as soon as I'm back, this blog will return to being its normal weddingy self.*
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6 comments:
sorry that you didn't win, but very glad to hear that you put in such a great showing! Enjoy your gift card, as I'm sure your guests will enjoy their favors!
Sorry that you couldn't win the trip, but you seem to have a great approach to it.
And at least you got some great favors out of the deal.
I've already told you how sorry I am that I lost, but I am glad you feel uplifted by the support.
Also, I agree: blogramming sounds dirty, but I can't figure out why! :)
Sucks that you didn't win, but your third place prize still rocks... and it was nice to see the blogosphere pull together to help ya ! :)
RelentlessBride
Boo, I can't believe you didn't take it. They must've kept all their voting power in reserve for the last day or two, sneaky. But as said, your attitude is just fantastic. Well done Dana & Hunter. x
I love the title of your blog. Please visit mine, I'm a banquet manager that deals with brides and other stuff everyday.
Here's a sample post about the bride that couldn't make a floor plan.
http://soyouwanttobeabanquetmanager.blogspot.com/2009/01/bride-that-couldnt-make-floor-plan.html
Hope you like it, thanks.
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