Chasing the Sunshine: The Honeymoon

Our bonkers but lovely friends got married a couple of weeks ago in Southampton. It was a lovely romantic occasion and we enjoyed the day very much. Then we were invited to go away on honeymoon with them to Gocek in Turkey. Hil and I went ahead a week before for our girl's week in Datca. Then we drove down to Gocek on Thursday after lunch. Matt flew out to meet us that evening along with the honeymooners.
I've never been on anyone else's honeymoon before so Hil and I decided we should enter fully into the spirit of the occasion. We bought as many decorative items as we could think of to adorn their honeymoon room. Amazon failed miserably with the star item, a hand book for newly weds 1894 which was to be positioned on their pillow. They sent the wrong book and 'Working from home' was not appropriate. However Hil found a heart shaped potato in Migros and that went down well. We filled their bed with confetti, and sprinkled it into wine glasses and all around the bathroom. The Mr and Mrs Wedding Ducks were placed in the bathroom along with heart shaped soap from the honey shop in Datca and pretty pink heart hair items from the market. Hil found a just married banner to go over the door and bed and a silver bow on the door handle. There were also cake shaped bubbles to blow, just married rock and of course love hearts sweets. Over the bed we hung white paper wedding bells and streamers. Finally we positioned just married flip flops - his and hers and a bottle of sensual massage oil. The hotel manager loved it and wanted to help. He added a bottle of wine and some flowers. I think they were pleased and amused by it all especially after they emptied the bed of confetti and cleaned up. They sat down for a glass of wine, pulled the serviettes from the wine glasses and more confetti billowed out (tee hee).
We didn't spend all of their 25 day honeymoon with them, just the first 3. It was loads of fun with cocktails, boat trip, nice dinners and a lovely hotel stay. Here are a few photos of our smashing honeymoon with Rob and Melanie.