Sunbrnd! Welcome aboard neighbor!!

Don't beat yourself up about this.....you did exactly what Raul and I did! We got married October 2010. We booked our flight in january on AA along with my parents, flying out of tampa, layover in MIA. By the time ALL of the rest of our guests booked their flights JetBlue (AND Airtran) were offering cheap rates on non-stops from Orlando and every single one of our local guests flew out of orlando on non-stops! I was PISSED! lol I think we paid around $350 each or so and they were getting $250 non stop flights.
Most all of my issues with American Airlines are simply that they change flights and times a lot and they ALWAYS seemed to be delayed. When we flew out of Tampa for our wedding we had an hour layover in Miami which I thought was great.....that is until out flight in tampa sat on the tarmac for 50 minutes before taking off. I was FREAKING OUT, we were going to miss our connecting flight in Miami....to our wedding, this was not happening! And of course the flight from Tampa to Miami is not long enough to make up that much time. The whole flight I was on edge (and if you know the back story of my wedding, I really didn't need any more issues at that point). Well we finally land in Miami, I did nothing short of push everyone out of the way, and low and behold our connecting gate was literally the very next gate, we got off and got right on and headed to Jamaica. So in the end it worked out but not without a lot of stress and frustration. Coming back home we spent longer in Miami than we were supposed to but at that point we didn't really care. So overall my issues with American are not nearly as bad as with Spirit (my advice, don't EVER fly Spirit) at least when things go wrong American *seems* to care about helping....Spirit, does not!

So anyways, you can do what we did. Fly American for your wedding and then fly JetBlue for your anniversary trip (because you WILL be back). We flew Cayman air out of Tampa for a non-stop flight to Cayman Islands and we got seriously spoiled. I used to fly whoever had the best ticket price as I just accepted that a layover in Miami (or FTL) was inevitable, but since we found out about JetBlue direct flights in Orlando, we have never looked back. Can't say enough good things about them. Free checked bags, free movies and music on board..they even give you drinks and snacks (FREE) lol. Also, Orlando customs is a breeze.
We drive over the day of the flight (giving ourselves plenty of traffic time) and we park at a place called Park, Bark and Fly (funny name I know). It's about 5 minutes from the airport, you can reserve online and it is $6 a day for parking, but you can find coupons online all the time, plus they email coupons regularly too. The will bus you to the airport and then you just call when you land and they pick you up and take you back right to your car, can't beat it.

We are heading back to Negril in 17 days (YAY) so if you need us to check anything out for your upcoming wedding while we are there, just let me know, we can surely do that. Or if you have any questions about anything wedding related or otherwise just ask.

Oh and one last thing.....Congrats on getting married in Jamaica! You will love it!

All the best,
Shauna (aka Marley9808)