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This wedding story started as a little joke between Kirsten and Connor.
Imagine us. Getting
“We still laugh whenever we talk about how this all happened,” Kirsten says.
In front of her is a wedding box. She has a hard time believing this is her wedding box. In it are mementos, little reminders this is no joke. She and Connor really were married at
Kirsten closes her eyes.
“I think of our wedding and it’s impossible not to be happy. We’re back in
They never expected to be married in an
“As a type-A person, you strive to make the perfect wedding happen,” Kirsten says, “but the truth is, you can’t make it happen. It either happens or it doesn’t. Ours happened.”
For most of her life, Kirsten envisioned a wedding near her home in Alabama. The ceremony would be on a pretty bluff. The reception would be in the backyard.
“The thought of a wedding on a tropical island never crossed my mind,” she says. “I assumed that kind of event was for other people, not for simple people like Connor and me.”
They laugh again when Kirsten says, “By the way, our story leading up to
On the night they met, Connor liked Kirsten so much that he asked if she wanted to go duck hunting the next day. For their first “real” date, they ate chili on a hot Alabama night with Connor’s parents. Even the
“He did get down on one knee,” Kirsten says.
Her “yes” instantly kicked the wedding process into motion. At a time when most brides-to-be begin to visualize flower petals and blue skies, Kirsten, a CPA, saw numbers. The price of a local venue and caterers added up to nearly $25,000 before she could account for décor, music, or guests.
“We know people who spend small fortunes on their weddings and all they remember later is what went wrong and being stressed out. All for one night? It doesn’t make sense.”
With the dollar figures for a basic wedding adding up, Kirsten jokingly said to Connor, “Heck, we could
“Yeah, let’s do that,” Connor said, joining the sarcasm.
Haha. Haha. Ha … wait a minute.
For fun, Kirsten looked at pictures of
“Actually,” she said to Connor, “we can do this.”
The two of them turned serious. Kirsten ran the new numbers. For less than the cost of a wedding at home, they could be
No more joking. No more questions. This would be Kirsten and Connor’s
The two of them knew it would be a big request of friends and family, even with the cute wording on the invitations: It would
Come spend a week along one of the world’s most gorgeous beaches, near Jamaica’s lush mountains,
Do whatever you want, whenever you want. Just come if you can.
Turns out, **nearly 40 people had always wanted to
Kirsten admits there did come a brief moment during the planning when she began to mentally formulate a million questions. How do I pick
“Let me show you a video of what you have in mind, Miss Kirsten.”
Kirsten clicked the “play” button and saw a wedding setup — her wedding setup — that a few weeks earlier would have seemed a million miles out of reach.
“A minute into the call, Christina had me excited about my own wedding,” Kirsten says.
“That’s the only feeling we had through the planning and the entire celebration: excitement. I tell everyone the people of Jamaica are my favorite people in the world. They’re genuine. They love life, and they want everyone around them to feel the same way. They make it impossible to be anything but happy.”
Kirsten and Connor made the
“Everyone who came to
They also remember it as the most beautiful wedding they’ve ever seen. Kirsten walking along a glass runway to the
“It’s hard to believe we’re talking about our wedding,” Kirsten says.
The entire
“Nothing went wrong,” Kirsten says, “but if it did, no one remembers. We were all in pure bliss.”
The bliss lasted fourteen days. After seven days at
“And those two weeks cost us 30 percent less than a one-day wedding near home would have cost,” Kirsten says with her CPA pencil out.
“I never could have imagined this.”
She and Connor look into the wedding box as a way of pinching themselves. Inside are handwritten notes from Sandals team members, recipes from their
“It all takes us back to the happiest time and
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