From 'I Do' to 'We Always Do': Our Annual Margaritaville Tradition

I'll be honest: when my wife Sarah first suggested we spend our honeymoon on a cruise ship instead of some overwater bungalow in Bora Bora, I thought she'd lost her mind. But here we are, five years later, boarding the Margaritaville at Sea Paradise for what's become our most sacred annual tradition. And yeah, I'm the guy who cried a little bit at the gangway on our first voyage. Not going to apologize for it. Our honeymoon wasn't supposed to be like this. We'd spent two years planning some Instagram-worthy destination wedding at a vineyard upstate, and we'd saved aggressively for the "trip of a lifetime." Sarah's best friend had gotten engaged around the same time, and her fiancé—a guy named Marcus who honestly seemed kind of insufferable at first—kept going on and on about his family's annual cruise tradition. He wouldn't shut up about this new ship called the Margaritaville at Sea Paradise. At some family dinner three weeks before our wedding, he'd shown us videos of the LandShark Bar, the 5 O'Clock Somewhere restaurant, and the laid-back vibe that apparently defined the whole concept. I remember Sarah's exact words: "You know what? That actually looks fun. Like, genuinely fun.…