Lisa Farwell & Roger Matthews

Lisa & Roger

May 17, 2008

Lisa Farwell & Roger Matthews

Lisa & Roger

May 17, 2008

Thanks for visiting our honeymoon registry. We are looking forward to seeing you in Austin on May 17 for our wedding and then on June 8 for the celebration of our marriage. It will be wonderful to have all of our family and friends together to share these special days with us. You may wonder what are we doing in the weeks between events...besides being husband and wife! We'll be on our honeymoon in England, Scotland and Ireland.

A few months after we got engaged, we moved into our new home together...and moved most of our stuff into storage. Merging two households has proven to be even more challenging than we imagined and don't even get us started on the house remodel later this year...definitely another story!

As an alternative to registering for more stuff, we decided to register our honeymoon instead. We hope that family and friends will celebrate us on our wedding day by helping us realize our dream honeymoon, complete with excursions to haunted pubs and castles, visits to some of the world's most beautiful cathedrals and monasteries, lots of great beer and fish-n-chips, and most importantly, sharing time together as newlyweds!

We're going to England, Scotland, Ireland!

We're beginning to understand one of the reasons people go on honeymoon together...to rest and spend time together after months of working hard!

The day after we tie the knot, we'll fly to London, England and begin our honeymoon adventure. By Monday afternoon, we'll be strolling through the Tower of London with a Beefeater (queen's guard, not drink) and hearing all about Anne Boleyn's ghost. We'll spend the first three days experiencing London before hopping a train to the medieval town of York in Northern England. After enjoying a couple of days navigating York's "snickleways" and visiting the York Minster, Europe's second largest cathedral (St. Peter's in Rome is the largest), we'll take another train to Edinburgh, Scotland. One of the most fascinating, beautiful and haunted European cities, we'll see Edinburgh for a couple of days before heading north by car into the wilds of the Scottish Highlands and a date with Nessie! We'll bid farewell to Scotland and hop a short flight from Glasgow to Dublin to spend the second week of our honeymoon touring the Emerald Isle's southern counties and the Dingle Peninsula (the first trip to Ireland for both of us). Our honeymoon will end on a high note...a stay at a haunted Irish Castle called Dromoland, near Shannon. We'll depart Ireland on June 3, flying home to our beloved Austin to prepare for our celebration with you on June 8 at the House on the Hill.

Thank you so much for helping us have the honeymoon of our dreams.

Our Registry

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Room service for our first morning in London...jet lagged and happy!
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Two tickets to London's most haunted...and foreboding palace, the Tower of London
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Visits to the Tate Modern, British Museum, the National Portrait Gallery
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Plenty of film to document our trip! We promise to share photos only when asked...
$5000
1/1
$100
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London Travel Card - access to those cool red double-decker buses and the "Tube"
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Travel guides to the spookiest locales...and the pubs with the best fireplaces!
$1500
3/3
$100
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Great Indian meal in London near Covent Garden
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Ghost walks in London, York and Edinburgh
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A shared glass of wine or cup of tea in front of a fireplace on a rainy afternoon...a little bit of love time.
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Our stay at the Cranely Gardens Hotel in London - just down the road from Dracula's Tavern!
$10000
3/5
$100
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Overnight ghost hunt in a haunted house (includes pints)
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Day trip to Stonehenge (and visit to haunted Red Lion Pub in Avebury)
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For Lisa from Roger (he's thinking books about ghosts because she's going to ask him to buy these anyway)
$5000
1/1
$100
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Fish-n-chips...need we say more?
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2 nights at Issy and Pete's Alcuin Lodge in York
$5000
6/6
$100
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Hike for two through the Scottish Highlands
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Picnic for two on the windswept moors of Northern England - watch out for werewolves - "American Werewolf in London" that is...
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Tours to ghostly castles in England and Scotland, including Glamis, childhood home of the Queen Mother
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Visits to York's Jorvik Viking Centre, York Castle Museum, York Dungeon
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Pints in Lisa's favorite pub, Ensign Ewarts, just steps away from Edinburgh Castle
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Visits to Edinburgh's National Gallery, National Portrait Gallery, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art
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Visits to York Minster (second largest cathedral in Europe - St. Peter's in Rome is largest), Micklegate Bar Museum, York City Art Gallery
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2 nights in the home of Erlend and Hélène Clouston...at the base of Castle Rock in Edinburgh
$5000
6/8
$100
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Dinner for two at The Witchery in Edinburgh...just steps from Edinburgh Castle...one of the finest restaurants in town
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Full Scottish breakfast including Haggis! Yum!
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Pints at Edinburgh's haunted pubs: The Last Drop, Jekyll and Hyde's, Deacon Brodie's, and The Mitre on the Royal Mile
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Gift for Roger from Lisa (she's thinking Scottish wool sweater from the Highlands)
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Boat trip across Loch Ness - Nessie, here we come!
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Flight from Glasgow to Dublin
$2500
2/5
$100
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Tour of a Scottish whiskey distillery
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Admission to Scottish Highland castles - Brodie, Cawdor, Urquhart, and Eilean Donan
$2500
1/4
$100
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Coffee for two on an afternoon spent sightseeing...
$2500
1/2
$100
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Extra insurance as we'll be driving on the wrong side of the road...and the wrong side of the car!
$7500
1/1
$100
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Evening of traditional Irish dancing in a small village in the middle of nowhere...
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Day trip to the Blarney Castle - kiss the Blarney Stone so you'll return to Ireland one day!
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Day meandering through the Irish countryside...who knows what we'll discover?
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A nice bottle of wine to share in Dublin (ah heck, make it several - we'll space them out)
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B&Bs along our roadtrip through Ireland...no plans, just looking for vacancy signs!
$10000
1/3
$100
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Dinner at the Dromoland Castle in Ireland - our last night in Europe
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$000
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