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How did you time your honeymoon? Did you leave right after the wedding or have a gap between wedding/hmoon?
Why did you choose the route you did?
Unfortunately we have to wait to take our honeymoon. We are getting married in April and won't be taking it until September. FI work is ridiculous and chooses when their employees get to take their vacations. They can request when the weeks will be- but it seems that if you request a certain time they will do whatever they can to make sure you don't get what you want. It usually ends up being 1 week off earlier in the year and 1 week of towards the end of the year before the holidays. Most of his friends @ his company have had to call in sick for their own wedding.
Right after! It makes more sense at both our jobs to get the time off all together, and we wanted to relax after the wedding!
We did it right after, but that's because we had a destination wedding and stayed for our honeymoon too. Otherwise we probably would have waited at least a couple weeks.
I was going to post this question today. OP, would you mind putting up a poll? Example: Next Day, Following week, Following month, ect.
We did ours a day and a half after. We really needed the time away to relax and recoup from the wedding! So worth it.
We spent all our money on the wedding :( so we are planning a honeymoon for our first anniversary.
Our wedding was on saturday and we left for europe on sunday night.
Wedding is Saturday and we leave for the honeymoon Monday morning!! We want to do it right after so we can a) relax after all of the wedding shenanigans and b) take some "us" time to absorb the fact that we're MARRIED. :D
We had a destination wedding (Vegas) and then did a honeymoon in another location a week later. Honestly, I just couldn't be gone from my job for over two consecutive weeks . . . and I didn't really want to go that long without seeing my pets, either. Plus, it felt like TWO trips. :)
We had our wedding on Saturday and left for our honeymoon on Monday
I loved doing it this way! The day after we had a brunch at which we were able to spend extra time with OOT family and friends. After our brunch we stayed with our immediate families to open gifts and cards. Then we went to dinner just DH and I and did some last minute packing. It was such a great day and I was happy to be able to sleep in a little bit and not stress about catching a flight!
Our honeymoon is exactly one week after the wedding. We really wanted to leave the day after the wedding, but the cruise we are going on only leaves on Saturdays.
We got married on a Sunday and left on Tuesday. We didnt want to scramble to leave immediately the day after so we just gave ourself an extra day to tie things up and relax before going.
We left a month after. We are from DC, had our wedding in Savannah and the honeymoon was in France and Italy. So we wanted some time to get home, sleep and then make the trek to Europe for a couple weeks. Totally worth it. I wouldn't have done it any other way. I was a Zombie the day after my wedding...would have been miserable on a plane for 8 hrs!
I voted next day even though technically it will be 2 days later. I want a day to sleep in :)
we decided to wait 2 months...mostly because we got married in fall and it is such a beautiful time of year and we didn't want to take a beach vacation then...but also because of vacation days and the fact that we wanted to have time to look forward to the honeymoon, which we wouldn't have had if we went immediately (as jenewitt says, we were EXHAUSTED!)
so we waited a bit and i'm SO glad we did.
Our honeymoon was two days after our wedding. I highly recommend giving yourself 1 or 2 days before leaving. At one point we were thinking not to do a HM but I'm so glad we did because I really needed the getaway. Plus it allows you not to obsess about every little detail. Not to mention it would be very anti climax if you didnt. Everything was so built up and the day comes it is over and it is a little depressing. Definately do a honeymoon with your new hubby within a week of getting married!
My FI and I initially wanted the honeymoon like 2 days after the wedding. We had the resort booked and everything THEN I realized...that with money being so tight trying to afford the wedding, airline tickets to Kauai in August are $1200 RT, so thats $2400 that can go towards the wedding. I just think for me, it was too much at once, so we decided to postpone it. This way we have paid off our wedding, will gather enough money for our flights, car rental, and our activities. I wanted to do it around Christmas and New Years, but so does everyone else. We decided to postpone it til SEVEN months after our wedding and have it in March in between both of our birthday's
i voted next week, but it was actually 3 days later. we got married on a tuesday and headed to our honeymoon resort on the friday. it was so close of course because we were already in Jamaica. But i did want at least a few days after the wedding to spend with family/friends at the first resort so we purposely had our wedding at the beginning. i think if we did a local wedding, we also would have at least a week. i wouldn't want to worry about packing and getting ready for a flight the day, i just wanted to sleep in and relax!
Our wedding was on Saturday, we left on Tuesday. We planned to leave on Monday, but it was cheaper to leave on Tuesday, so we went with Tuesday.
We don't have anything planned yet, but as our wedding is at the end of August and I will hopefully be attending college that fall we will have to leave for our honeymoon the next day or days. I would be fine doing something later if it worked out that way.
Ours is almost a month later! We are having an AHR the next weekend after our wedding, and with all the time we're taking off for both, I will need to wait until winter break (I'm a teacher) because I'll be all out of days off. It's just the way things worked out for us, but I think it will be good to have some time to recover from all the excitement and just enjoy it and relax.
We waited a month. Here was our thought process:
I thought a month was perfect--we still felt like newlyweds, but didn't have stress about the honeymoon right away.
We waited 2 weeks to leave for our HM and it was the best thing we did. Our only other option was to leave 2 days after the wedding and we had no interest in doing that. With as stressed as I was in the days leading up to our wedding, there is absolutely no way that I would have been able to deal with packing and making sure everything was in order to leave for our HM right after. I also had a pretty nasty case of the post wedding blues so being able to prolong the whole experience by delaying the HM a few weeks really helped me since it gave me something else to look forward to.
The 2 week wait in-between was reeeeeally rough. Those 14 days felt like 40 but eventually we made it and got to leave on our cruise. I don’t think I would have been able to push it back much more than a few weeks, though. By the time we left, we were MORE than ready to get the show on the road.
My wedding is Sat. 11/19 (yahhh 8 days!!!) we are waiting exactly a week and leaving 11/26. We wanted to be able to still celebrate thanksgiving with friends and family. I have off work monday the 21st but will work tuesday and wednesday then have off t-day and friday to shop and get ready for the trip.
We just booked our honeymoon! We're getting married on a Saturday and leaving the following Wednesday for 8 days. Monday was more expensive, and if we left on Tuesday we couldn't get the room at our resort where we wanted, so we went with Wednesday.
We are going on our honeymoon the next day. Really a couple hours after our wedding, Our reception ends at 11pm...By the time we say goodbye to all of our guest and back at the hotel we will only have a few hours to relax. We have a very early flight the next day. We didn't want to wait, if I could of gotten us a flight 3 hours after the wedding I would of taken it lol
our wedding is a Saturday! and we are planning to leave for our honeymoon on Monday! a family friend has a party planned for the day after the wedding so our celebration will continue and then can relax before heading off to enjoy being married!!
We will be waiting a couple months, we don't want to go to bali during their peak season for a couple reasons.. 1. Plane tickets are double the price than if we waited 2. I dont want to have to deal with crowds so I usually opt for off season when I am going abroad unless it can't be helped 3. we prefer the october weather to their "winter" weather.. though not much difference 4. FI needs to be able to accumulate more leave from work lol!
Because we are getting married in August, we thought it would make more sense to go on our honeymoon a few months later, since we want to go down south. We would rather go when it's -30 here to get away from the cold weather!
We got married 3 weeks ago, and we aren't going on our honeymoon until May. We are already booked and are going on a 7 day Alaskan cruise. By the time we decided where we actually wanted to go, it was pretty much too late for this year as Alaskan cruises are only for a few months each year. Besides, I am in such a lazy super tired rutt since the wedding, I barely want to leave the house! Ha! Jokes aside, the timing works perfect for us, as it allows us to get thru the holidays, and then still have the honeymoon to look forward to. I also needed the extra time to get my passport changed, and it will also line right up at a year since our last vacation to Cancun. Cant wait!!
We took our honeymoon two weeks after the wedding. We took a cruise which only leaves at 4 on Sundays and our wedding was on a Sunday so we obviously couldn't go that week. And the next week I was scheduled to get my period soooo we went two weeks after. :] It was really nice waiting those two weeks though. It gave us a chance to unwind after the wedding, get settled in our house, and was something to look forward to!
After our wedding we'll be heading to a hotel then off to the honeymoon cruise in the morning. =) That had a lot to do with the wedding date we picked.
We're going a couple days after the wedding. I wanted to do it right after the wedding for a couple reasons. First of all, I know we'll be exhausted and the vacation will be nice. Second, we've been together for 6 years, and I know after the excitement of the wedding wears off, we'll be back to just being us again, and while I love just being us, I still want to take advantage of the newlywed glow while I can. I don't think you ever get that back so I want to enjoy it while it's there. I think if we waited a few months, it would be a vacation but not really a honeymoon. IMHO.
@atomlins81: I love your reasoning. thank you for posting all these and the more i think about it the more i would like a bit longer between wedding and HM
We are looking forward to the honeymoon almost as much as the wedding so we are taking it right away! We are getting married on a Saturday and leaving on Monday to give us a day to pack, run errands, deposit gift money, etc.
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