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We are in the same situation, but I can tell you, the payoff is huge. It is such a wonderful feeling to know that everything wedding is paid for and that we did it ourselves. You will have that feeling too. We are hoping to go on a little minimoon to Canada to see my grandma at the end of this summer, so that will make up for part of it, and then next summer, we are probably going to do something more honey mooneyish, but we haven't decided what yet. We just know that we will have whatever we do paid for when we do it.
EDIT: We were able to spend our wedding night away from home, so that was a good thing :-)
I just got a new job, which means we could afford a very cheap honeymoon, but there's a good chance I could get promoted to store manager in September, the month we're getting married :/. If I get it, I'll be lucky to have those few days off, but there's no way I'll be able to take a honeymoon. There's a chance that I might get promoted to another store earlier...so, fingers crossed!
We didn't have a honeymoon but for a different reason, we were moving across the country a little over a month after the wedding and didn't have time or money. I figure we will go on enough vacations, one right after the wedding won't be that much different.
Ack, we're not world travellers or anything, but i'd love to go away. FI are looking into a 2-nite overniter in August a couple weeks after the wedding somewhere close by, but spoiling ourselves a little with spa treatment etc.... Maybe at the end of the year of beginning of 2012 we'll think about some sort of 'moon.
We're in the same boat. Going to do our best to take 2 or 3 nights away in the area somewhere (assuming someone will watch our crazy giant puppy) just after the wedding, but then no plans until at least next year.
Going to save our pennies and head to Ireland.
It takes LOTS of pennies!
We were close to noy honeymooning as FI is curently unemployed but I found a great deal for cuba ($1100 after taxes for both of us) so we are going there :)
@Elarissa: there are some awesome last-minute Cuba deals!! We were there in October 2009....and it was such a great time :)
I'm jealous - I wish we could go to Cuba! I spent about a decade living in Miami and have always wanted to go there.
I've been to Ireland before, but my very proud of his little bit of Irish heritage groom has not. I can't wait to take him! (come ONNNNNN money tree!) :)
@babybluz yup! We had look at this resort before.. the reviews for the hotel were good.. then when I looked it up this week they are having a "no gas tax" thing for bookings this week so it was a few hundred bucks cheaper.. I can't get over the price and am PUMPED we get to go on a honeymoon
We're in the same exact boat. We're paying for the wedding outselves, but we're hoping that with some of the money we get as wedding gifts, maybe we can go on a trip for my birthday a month later. Who says a honeymoon has to come right after the wedding? It's just another thing to look forward to, rather than one big long wedding event. This way, it's not all over at once.
A honeymoon is not even an option at this time for us either. It is taking all that we have to just pay bills, and put a tiny bit away for the wedding. Am hoping to maybe be able in a couple years (yes, I said a couple years) :(
Can you even do a small getaway? Maybe do a wish registry like at uponourstar.com and do a night at a fancy hotel, brunch or dinner at an expensive restaurant- I would totally "buy" that off a registry for a friend who couldn't afford to go on a honeymoon- everyone deserves a little mini-moon!!!!
Know the feeling. I'm glad we're paying cash for everything (yay! no post-wedding debt), but are now realizing we won't be able to do a honeymoon for awhile. We're trying to plan a mini-moon just to get away for a few days and relax, but it's not quite what we really, really want to do.
Yea for sure - we're looking into a mini-moon to pamper ourselves a little, and to celebrate of course! Maybe an hour or 2 drive away for 2 or 3 nights....
Can you have a mini-moon at home instead, where you turn off your cell phones, ignore the computer and just enjoy each other's company for a few days? Cook some great dinners and have some nice wine and just enjoy being married? That still sounds pretty great to me. :)
@babybluz: No honeymoon for my FH and I either. We are *THINKING* about going to Ocean City for a weekend as a 'mini-honeymoon' but that isn't much because we go every summer for day trips.
Something him and I have been talking about is having our honeymoon 1-2 years after our wedding as an anniversary gift to one another :)
Umm, yeah, we couldn't afford a honeymoon-we stayed away one night. Then when our kids were little, we got away for our honeymoon when our oldest was 2 and our baby was 1. But I really think that this is a cute idea for those who can do it, I totally would have done this if I had seen it at the time we got married:
http://www.creativehoneymoonideas.info/ideas/2010/11/romantic-honeymoon-ideas-at-home/
Like noritake said, we're going to be very happy knowing that we're paying for our wedding (mostly) on our own, and will not be going into debt for it. We'll probably go on our honeymoon for our first anniversary, so we will have time to save for an awesome trip :)
I'm starting to wonder about the actual wedding, I mean destination elopement which really just involves the both of us.
Hopefully it will all turn out. You could always plan a special weekend close to home and then do the honeymoon later on?
@Elarissa: That sounds great! I would love to find out who,how, when,where. Cuba is so awesome I never even thought about this, but its such a good idea. I will send you a PM.
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...that there is absolutely no way we can afford a honeymoon, until quite some time after the wedding.
We're paying for the wedding ourselves...and there's just no money in the budget right now to even think about a honeymoon :(
anyone else in this boat?