My second sabbatical ran from the end of September through beginning of December 2009, during which my then-fiancé and I prepared for and had our wedding, went on our honeymoon in Hawai`i, and recovered from all the wedding preparation.

We got married on Halloween, and the entire wedding--ceremony and reception--were themed, so there was a huge amount of preparation. The theme was "an enchanted fairy woodland, inspired by Shakespeare's 'A Mid-Summer Night's Dream'", so everything was 16th century Italian. Sabrina and the bridesmaids all had fairy wings, and the groomsmen and I all were dressed in 16th century Italian formal wear (doublets).

• I enjoyed the first week being out and about in the beautiful weather, finding the fabric for Sabrina's dress, and helping Leslie get some of the dress cut out. I wasn't allowed to see the full pattern, so I just worked on the skirt.


• The next four weeks I drafted the patterns for the doublets and pants for me and the groomsmen, and made all those outfits plus one more fighting doublet.


• After the wedding and before we left for the honeymoon, I competed in a yearly rapier tournament and came close to winning it.


• We spent more than a week as our honeymoon enjoying Hawai`i:
  
• swimming in the ocean a couple blocks from our hotel,


• swimming with dolphins at Sea Life Park,


• attending the Polynesian Cultural Center on the north shore and the luau and firedancing show,


• hiking up to Manoa Falls, and


• shopping at Ala Moana Center: the largest open-air shopping mall in the world.


• The project work for the wedding outfits left our house, well, substantially less than clean and organized. The last part of sabbatical was a lot of recovery from all the fabric work.