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We can't afford to go anywhere either (also paying for our wedding) but we are taking a week off for a staycation. We're going to make up for it in the Spring.
I'm actually glad, because the wedding is two weeks away, and I'm so exhausted, I just want to sleep when it's over!
Count me in the sulking boat! We originally wanted to spend 2-4 weeks touring parts of Europe, but especially Italy and Greece. Now...we aren't going anywhere. :_(
We haven't really talked about the honeymoon that much, but as of right now I don't think we'll be traveling anywhere major. We may do a weekend somewhere within a few hours drive, but who knows what could end up happening!
I'm on the side of either going on a weekend honeymoon (just to Banff or something, probably camping) or skipping it/making up for it later. My fiance, on the other hand, really REALLY wants to go someplace tropical, week-long, etc. Sigh.
We're waiting until next year to take our honeymoon, and I'm so glad. I was so tired after the wedding, that I feel like a big trip would've been wasted on me.
Anyway, I guess I'm just writing to say that it might be a bit of a hidden blessing, to not have a honeymoon right away. I know you're probably financially strapped, what with paying for everything yourselves, but do you think you could find just an extra $15-20/week each, to set aside automatically into a honeymoon fund? If you start now, you could have quite a bit saved up, by the time your wedding rolls around.
Or, can you cut your wedding spending in another way, to enable you to have a honeymoon, if it's important to you? I did DIY flowers from fiftyflowers.com for our dining room flowers, and they looked amazing (and saved me TONS of money).
we were gonna wait for our first anniversary, but since we live in FL, we thought to look up cruises last minute and ended up getting a great deal for a 7 night cruise about 2 1/2 weeks after the wedding =)
Look for travel deals on places like kayak.com and travelzoo.com - you may have to play it by ear until close to your wedding, but you might be able to score an awesome trip at a great price!
If you aren't able to go on a honeymoon right away, do a fun staycation and just relax.
We're not skipping it, exactly. Just postponing it til he's done with his first year of PHD school! We figure that if we get married right before school starts, it'll just be too much to try and go on a huge vacation! So, we'll get to celebrate being married for almost a year AND him getting through the first year of school! Win/ win!
We waited a while to start honeymoon planning and now the wedding is only a few months away. His family has offered for us to go with them to their cabin in colorado... may be doing that and saving for a bigger more tropical vacation later.
We are planning on going somewhere close to home for a weekend getaway and then saving some for a bigger trip later in the year. My FI will be too busy studying for the bar exam which he has to take a month after the wedding and we will just be moving to a new state right before the wedding so there will be just too much going on around the wedding to do anything big.
My man and I agree that we would rather have a less expensive wedding and spend the money on a long honeymoon. We also don't want to leave immediately after the wedding; we need time to rest up and enjoy each other in the comfort ouf our own home after that craziness!
So far it sounds like we'll be heading to Ireland (yay!!!). I'm hoping for something like 3-5 days at home and two or three weeks overseas. It would be cool to stay in Ireland exclusively and take the time to experience multiple sides of life there; stay in a five star castle hotel in the country, rent a cottage on the Aran Isles, stay in Dublin or Galway for a few days...
Sigh. I'm desperate to see the landscape, hear the music and language and stories, meet the people, eat the food. There's no way I'll let a silly thing like a wedding get in the way of that. :P
I think postponing your honeymoon is a great idea! You will be so tired right after the wedding that you won't be able to enjoy it as much as you will in a couple of months. My dh and I were married in July, and will be going to Vietnam and Cambodia in January. If finances are the issue, could you save up and maybe go on a cruise? They are relatively affordable, especially if you can leave from a nearby port and don't need to fly. If your job is flexible, last minute cruises are really affordable since the cruise ships make most of their profit selling tours and drinks, so they don't want to leave with empty cabins and cruises become really cheap last minute.
ours is a cross between big & local. It's going to be long, but 3 hours away.
I'm SO glad I'm not the only one!!!
And many of you are right - I guess I’ll probably want to hibernate for a week after the big day, not travel and have an itinerary! And after I flip some of my wedding décor and left-over supplies, I might have a few bucks to stash away for later!
Thanks everyone for the responses! Have a great week!
We are going on a big vacation ... but I got married on Saturday and we leave in a couple days - it feels like we've skipped our newly wed time. =( If we left right away than it would feel different probably.
We're definitely taking a big vacation! We've been pinching pennies and taking PB&J for lunch for the entirety of our LONGGG engagement in order to save! We deserve to splurge a bit!
We are paying for everything ourselves as well and are leaving the honeymoon out of it for now...even though we both want to have a nice long vacation! We have agreed that it will be even better when we have some money for it and just focus on enjoying being married...maybe even do a weekend away somewhere close.
The more and more we think about it, the more we are seriously considering doing the opposite. Forgoing the 'wedding' (eloping or having a small ceremony with dinner after) and having an amazing honeymoon!
-Bella
We couldn't afford to go anywhere after our wedding and also my husband was starting a new job a month after we got married so we had to worry about moving and other important things like that. Hopefully we will get to do something later this year or over the summer next year.
We had planned to take a two week cruise on the Mediterranean after our May 2011 wedding but we've moved the wedding up a year and decided to stay local and visit a few islands nearby (Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard) after the wedding but still take the cruise in May 2011 for our one year aniversary. I'm so happy to hear we're not the only ones forgoing the big honeymoon right after the wedding!
We are paying for our NYE wedding, which was marked up 2x for everything because of the day. Next year we also want to buy two new cars so for now we are going to try to break even on our wedding and then focus on our downpayments for our cars. Seems a shame not to have a honeymoon but we are realistic about our money situation!
We did a local minimoon right after the wedding in August and we just booked our 4 night stay in Puerto Rico this December last night.
We did this for 3 reasons:
- we didn't want to have to plan a honeymoon at the same time we were planning a wedding
- August in MN is nice enough weather we didn't really want to "escape" so we thought waiting til Winter would be a great idea
- the couple of months in between to save some extra spending $ is going to be nice :)
My FI hates to fly and neither of us like the beach/hot weather, so we're driving up north and enjoying the fall foliage in New England. We haven't been on just-the-two-of-us vacation in over a year and won't have the chance to before the wedding, so it was definitely a priority for us to take a trip right after.
I would just say take a few days even if you don't go anywhere to enjoy each other. It can't always be done but there's a nice after wedding feeling that is great to bask in for a few days even if it's not doing anything crazy.
yeah it's looking more and more like we can't afford our honeymoon, sadness! Oh well hopefully we can make it up at some later date. *nods*
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We're paying for our whole wedding by ourselves and aren't sure if we'll be able to have an actual honeymoon. Anyone else in my boat to sulk with?! =)