I’ve had the pleasure of knowing Leigh and Brian Alspach for over a decade and a half. And they had been dating for about that long before they got married in Ramsey, NJ! So a romantic, fun honeymoon to Hawaii was the prefect way to celebrate their official union as man and wife.

Brian, a producer at E-Line Media and Leigh, a manager for Team Reeve at the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation, say no place was even in the running. It was Hawaii all along for them. “Hawaii was someplace we’ve both always wanted to go to and had never been,” says Brian, “We wanted to have a lot of variety on the trip, so we chose three islands and Kauai in particular for all the opportunities to hike.”

Their “little bit of everything” approach to the trip took them to the Big Island of Hawaii, Oahu and Kauai. Brian says they were “busy, busy, busy” throughout the whole trip. Hiking was definitely a priority for these two.

And their most pleasant surprise? The weather: “Very few rainy moments, even on Kauai (above) — which was not as rainy as everyone had prepared us for. Daytime temperatures were in the 80s, and if we didn’t like the weather, it was easy to either drive or wait five minutes and it was different!” Hawaii’s got rainbows galore … even on their license plates.