Travel and Accommodations

Air Travel: The best way to get to Holland is through Grand Rapids airport (GRR). Unfortunately, there is no good public transportation to get you from there to Holland. The easiest would be to rent a car; if you don't want to do that, get in touch with us and we can probably find somebody to give you a ride.
The Haworth Center suggests using Enterprise for car rentals.

Local Guests: If you want to help out with out of town guests, please contact us to volunteer!

Accommodations:
We have a few rooms reserved at two downtown locations. The Haworth Center where our reception is does not have non-smoking rooms available for Saturday Night (6-12), but we have a block reserved for Sunday Night (6-13). To reserve one of these rooms for yourself, call 616-395-7200 and tell them you are with the Keeley Jonker Wedding.

If you would like to stay Saturday night we have a block of rooms reserved for both nights at City Flats, a hotel just down the road. To reserve one of those rooms call 616-796-2100 and tell them you are with the Keeley wedding.

Budget Options: If you prefer to save money, about 2 miles away there are the following hotels:
Days Inn 866-925-8676
Holiday Inn Express 866-925-4159
Doubletree 866-678-6350

Registries

If you would like to buy us a gift, we have set up registries for your convenience at the following stores:

Bed Bath and Beyond
Macys

About Bethany and Justin

We are so excited to celebrate our wedding with you! In this post, there are a few details about Bethany and Justin and our relationship.

Bethany is a graduate student in Speech Communication at the University of Georgia. She is planning to finish her PhD in May 2011. Bethany likes living in Athens, GA except for the unbearably hot summers. She lives there now with her roommate Jamie and their two cats. When not working on school, Bethany blogs about unnecessary quotation marks, does other writing, and participates in music at church. A book based on the quotation marks blog will be available from Chronicle Books in Fall 2010.

Justin is a GIS Cartographer from Grand Rapids, MI. He works for an independent oil & gas exploration geologist. Most days he looks at maps and puts them with other maps. When he isn't working in the garoffice (garage-office), he hangs out with Scott and Christy Admiraal and watches TV shows and movies. Other times (and sometimes at the same times as these other things) he plays flash games that are fun. He enjoys visiting Athens and can't wait to move there.

They met in the spring of 2008 via mutual friends and the internet. They have mutual interests in awesome things on the internet and long distance relationships. When they met for the first time in Holland, MI, sparks flew and Bethany wouldn't eat anything. Two months later, for Labor Day weekend, Justin made the first of many journeys to Athens, GA. The two of them have seen each other about every month since then. In July 2009 Justin proposed at Laketown Beach, Bethany's favorite Lake MI beach which they visited on their first date.

(photo by Melissa Keeley)