Wow. Best of luck to both of your but I have to say a dev boot camp for iOS is the last thing I would ever consider spending 12k on even when I was just learning Objective-C.

Now blowing 12k on a trip overseas together after a 2 year long distance relationship... that's something that I could get behind.

That said, please please make sure the class sizes are very small and the instructor ratio is like 1:5 max. You will be paying a premium and if they put you in with 30 other people or even 15 (60k/month for them btw) you are just getting ripped off.

For 12k you could hire an experienced iOS dev to teach you this stuff in a couple hours a week. Even if Catherine paid 125/hr (and I bet someone would do it for less for the hell of it) that's still almost 100 hours of 1:1 time. Just food for thought. I'll donate anyway in hopes you take a nice vacation :)

PS. My friends website of as many tech schools as he could find says the rails program @ Flatiron has 32 people to a course - http://schools.techendo.co