Originally we were going to go on our honeymoon shortly after our wedding. However, Jordan starts rotations immediately after, so our plan is to do a quick weekend getaway and hopefully one day get the honeymoon we’ve dreamed of.

One of the charities we're excited to support is the Wildlife Conservation Network, which partners with community-based conservationists around the world to protect endangered species, preserve their habitats, and promote their coexistence with local human communities. To avoid fees that an intermediary organization might charge, we will make the donation on your behalf so it goes directly to the organization. Elephants have roamed wild for 15 million years, but today these gentle giants are killed for their ivory, their tusks sold on the black market internationally. Demand is particularly high in Asia, where owning ivory is a sign of great wealth (astonishingly, it can be worth more than gold). This demand is pushing elephants to the edge of extinction, and already countries like Sierra Leone and Senegal have lost their populations due to poaching. Today the demand for ivory continues, and wild elephants are being slaughtered daily. Leading conservation organizations including the Wildlife Conservation Society estimate that up to 36000 elephants are killed each year for their tusks: that’s one every 15 minutes. By those figures, there will be no more elephants gracing our wild landscapes by 2025.

A great way to revisit our special day!

Wedding season is right around the corner, and we’re so lucky to have many of our friends and family inviting us to celebrate their special day with them! Since we live in Florida, all of our upcoming weddings require us to travel quite a bit, so if you so graciously want to purchase a gift for us, Southwest giftcards would be such a tremendous help in our travel expenses.

It will be a while before we are able to go on our honeymoon, but we will be taking a “minimoon” to Key West!