Aug 26 2008

ToJo’s Vegas Wedding – Prices Update Week 2

As promised, my weekly findings on prices to Vegas for my budgeting beauties. The first week’s entry can be found on the blog at www.toddandjoraye.com…:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” />

Flight and Hotel from Expedia.com – July 16th – 20th, 2009 (SAMPLE DATES ONLY)
Deluxe Room – $652.49/person
Go Deluxe Room – $740.15/person
Go Deluxe Room w/ Strip View – $782.93/person

Room Only from Flamingo.com – July 16th – 20th, 2009 (SAMPLE DATES ONLY)
Deluxe Room – $390.00 (based on double occupancy)
Go Deluxe Room – $550.00 (double occupancy)
Go Deluxe Room w/ Strip View – $630.00 (double occupancy)

Flight Only from Expedia.com – July 16th – 20th, 2009 (SAMPLE DATES ONLY)

Cheapest flight was $400. (That was this morning, as of now, there’s cheaper – $333 and $383 fares)

OK, a few of you asked:

“Why would we book separately? It seems much cheaper to do it all together.”

The only reason we would book flights and hotel separately would be if the Flamingo gave us a group rate for a block of rooms that would beat the Expedia Flight + Hotel prices. I haven’t even booked our ceremony, so I’m not sure of any of those details yet.

Looks like we have about 3 weeks to go before we can start getting an actual gauge of what our actual August date prices are!

As for last weeks prices, just to give you an idea as of how they fluctuate, they all went down $36/person over the course of a week.

Flight and Hotel from Expedia.com – July 9th – 13th (SAMPLE DATES ONLY)

Deluxe Room – $624.91/person (was $660.91)
Go Deluxe Room – $711.52/person (was $747.52 )
Go Deluxe Room w/ Strip View – $754.30/person (was $790.30)

OK, I’ve bored you enough. Go start counting pennies and rolling quarters for ToJo’s Vegas Wedding!


Aug 10 2008

I’m engaged!

Most people already know, but just in case….I’m engaged!

Officially, as of July 16th. My ring – one word – AMAZING.

http://www.joraye.com/images/ring3.jpg

(for some reason, this file is there, but it won’t show up…….)

I may turn joraye.com into a planning blog, not sure yet.

So far, as of today, I have booked a photographer! It’s my first real step towards this whole real life wedding thing.

I went with Bently&Wilson of Las Vegas (http://wilsonphoto.20m.com), I have seen their work from some of the Las Vegas Knotties, and I am in love. His price, ownership, and ideas are exactly what I’m looking for.

That’s my update for the day…..

JoRaye


Aug 4 2008

Oh hai ya’ll

Ok….since my status is freaking people out (6 messages and 2 or 3 comments…)

Confused – There’s ALOT of crap in boxes, and I have no where to put it……yes, I am finally moved into Todd’s house.

Also confused, and I guess betrayed isn’t the BEST word, but well, I just feel like I’ve lost a few of my good friends that I wish I could see more. And I hate that just because I’m now known as the ToJo, I can’t possibly EVER do anything without Todd, so therefore, no reason to invite me. The few that live in OKC, I don’t see as much as we could, and the rest are elsewhere…..

Things with me and Todd are great, and I am very lucky to have his friends and family embrace me and welcome me into their lives the way they have, and I wouldn’t change that for the world, but ya know, sometimes I just need “my” girls?

My girls who UNDERSTAND:
JJiSMiK,
The Thunderchicken, Greeny, and Zoe Zoom Zoom…
Tiny Chapel,
Thompsons Bay,
muddin’,
backroadin’
roadies,
Strip Critter,
Drenga, (and the importance of wearing 9 scarves)
Tenbuck,
The Starlight Satellite,
dancing on countertops, coffee tables, and anything in between,
learning the hardcore lesson of having a party and posting it on Facebook,
QUAIL QUAIL,
I can kick, cause I’m FITTY!,
The water is wet, beneath my feet!
Smirnoff and Beer,
Painting Matt Bloom’s head with silver nail polish, right after he shaved his head, and thanking God we didn’t kill him…..(I just ran across those pictures….)
Lake Murray Golf Course…..that’s all.
Napolean Dynamite parties, and we were the only ones with enough balls to dress up.
Interpretive dancing,
2 hours of photo sessions, on the mailbox, in the driveway, on the tailgate,
The Girls of Concord Place and the People who Love Them.
Random Water Balloon fights,
The Tri Chi House
Barbie and her Pink Hummer
Tuesday Nights at BWW after OTH, and shitty Wednesday morning classes.
The most outrageous MAC combos you can wrap a brush around,
That’s how we row,
OKKKKKKK (of course I’m not putting this on MySpace….),
JoRaye fuckin’ left me in Oklahoma City!!!!,
fist pumpin’ like some damn guido-ettes in Skyy Bar, out the sunroof of Zoe, and randomly, in Tenbuck.
I’m a Little Teapot,
Pink little panty palace (and boyshorts too!)
Stealing your roommate’s convertible….
Hot Cock!
Puking along I-35….
Bustiers….sexy means not breathing….or bending.
etc, etc, on and on and on and on.

Did it all end with “I’m NOT going to some bar called the Porthole!” ?

I hope not. I just miss it. I think I keep blogging about this, because I remember saying I miss the randomness. The I don’t give a damn about who’s watching, who I have to go home to, what time I have to be home, what will he think about me, what if she’s talking to him, just the cares of this everyday world that now surround me and my friends. It’s killed the spontaneity, the carelessness, it’s forced us to grow up, get real jobs, get married, have babies, and start our own families. I know this isn’t goodbye, but it feels like a long road to another life, a life I am excited, nervous, happy, and can’t wait for, but again, why does it come at a price?

Why can’t it be the summer of 2001 forever? Or even 2002? (I’d like to skip years 2003, 2004, and the first part of 2005, thank you.)

Why can’t it be summer forever?

Why can’t it just be friends forever?

OK….I’m done bitching. I still love you all, let me wallow in my mud pit of sadness!

As you know, I have exactly 368 days to plan a wedding, cause I’m getting married! Mwahaha. I hear good news travels FAST bitch.

<3

joraye