Almost all the wedding details are still up in the air. I have the chapels narrowed down to 2 - the Excalibur and the Monte Carlo. I want to get married in something that doesn't look like a boardroom with an altar at the front. The Excalibur, despite the fact that I hate the casino, has an absolutely beautiful chapel. Unfortunately it only holds 65 and I'm pretty sure we'll have more than that. We haven't actually seen the Monte Carlo chapel in person yet, but will likely be heading there in October to have a look at it. Then pick out the reception venue, and the hard parts are over with.
The honeymoon details are pretty much set - not booked yet, but decided upon. Immediately after Vegas there's a week in Anaheim - my fiance's family is from there, works out well!
We'll be taking in the 50th at
Disneyland, and then returning home for a few days before taking off for the actual honeymoon - 4 day
DCL cruise and a week at WDW, POFQ. And Discovery Cove.
Yep, I'm a
travel agent. As for your certificate there are 3 options - one is that the NW agent is interpreting the voucher to mean that travel has to be complete by June 30 as opposed to booked by June 30. Another is that the voucher can only be used with certain classes of fare, and the fare you were trying to book isn't compatible with that voucher. The other possibility is... you said that these were vouchers your friend had? It's possible tha the voucher isn't transferable to another person. Even if there's no name on the voucher itself they do have a record in their system of who the voucher was issued to. Any of those is possible. The general rule we travel agents use is - say thank you very much, hang up, call back in 10 minutes and hope that you get someone else. Usually if you talk to 3 different agents you'll get 3 different answers. Sometimes more!
That's the "lovely" thing about the big airlines as opposed to the discount carriers (like Westjet). With the discount ones they only have 1 class of ticket, and various fare levels within that one class that are entirely based on sale volume. With the regular carriers each type class has different rules and regulations attached to it. Advance purchase requirements, Saturday night stayovers, limits to how long you can stay, cancelation with no fees but a credit voucher issued, cancelation and full refund etc etc. The list goes on and on.
