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I know I would rather spend money on a amazing honeymoon than my wedding (and that is exactly what I am doing!). I just love travelling too much! What is your preference?
I agree with both honeymoon and other
i have a friend with a small diamond in her ring (she calls it small and she doesnt like it) and yet they are spending 5 times as much as the ring on the reception - which i think sucks, i would rather spend more money on a diamond (if thats what is important to you) than a wedding
we eloped so our wedding money did go on our holiday/eloping
The honeymoon by far! The wedding is one event, and mainly for other people. The honeymoon is for us. Away from the world. Leave us alone. We're finally together. I am looking more forward to the second the wedding ends than the whole thing put together. And we're not officially engaged yet. Hahaha.
I say wedding. You won't have a day like that in your life ever again (supposedly).
Your HM is more a glorified holiday in the end, which you of course need. But it doesn't need to be expensive to be special :)
Honeymoon. Traveling, being *alone* with your spouse away from everyday responsibilities, and having those experiences together are more important than one fancy wedding day.
We're fine having a small budget wedding - the honeymoon was a biiiiiig deal. We enjoy trips way too much, and it'd be awesome to really go all out on it.
Kinda hard for me to vote so I did other. We have a small budget for the wedding, and I just booked the honeymoon @ an amazing rate, so really...I am a thrifty person and I believe in stretching the dollar to its fullest potential, lol =D
I honestly think that big weddings are more for 'the family' than for the B&G. I know that although I have dreamed about my princess wedding since I was a little girl, I now think that we will do something small and simple for the ceremony and dinner after... and have a great honeymoon! The honeymoon is for US, a wedding is for everybody else :)
-Bella
We love our family and friends so much, and they're such a part of our lives that making sure that they're taken care of at our wedding and reception is a big deal for us. We travel all the time, so while the honeymoon is a priority for us as well, we know how to do that in a thrifty manner and still have a great time.
We spent more on our wedding because, let's face it, you can't feed 120 people for under 4K easily...but, if we had, say, a tiny budget, I tink i'd rather have the wedding and do the honeymoon a year later for our anniversary, but take a few days to ourselves and turn our phones off and hide out in our house =]
We spent way more on the wedding than the honeymoon, but in hindsight I wish i would have done the opposite. the honeymoon was such a great time for us to relax and bond and just get away from it all.
Well I think its all relative... I mean you can spend "a lot" on a honeymoon but that same amount on a wedding is only a portion. I said wedding because its more important to us to spend the time with our family.
Wedding - I loved having all my family & friends there and loved knowing they were having an awesome time :)
I voted other because we are having a small wedding that will probably cost about the same as our honeymoon.
i'd much rather have the honeymoon. i'm only having a wedding (still small, but i'd anything bigger than just my fi and i is too big for me) because my fi wants it and we're comprimising on a small wedding. he hasn't flown until he met me, so i didn't expect a big crazy honeymoon either, i've accepted that we'll just have to work our way up to that.
Hands down honeymoon - we had an amazing time and went all out - 22 days away from it all with each other and getting to see other parts of the world while in a blissed-up lovey dovey state...those memories will stay with us in a way that the reception won't.
I'd much rather have the wedding - the wedding is the celebration of our union. FI and I have travelled a lot together and will travel a lot more in the future but for us the honeymoon isn't about "travel" it's about spending time together and that you can do inexpensively close to home!
To be honest, I think I would go for a smaller wedding, and a bett honeymoon (which is kind of what we did) but is sheer cost, I don't htink the two are a good comparison.
We spent less than half of the money we spent for the wedding on our honeymoon (to Italy) So even though I thought our honeymoon was a splurge, the wedding was still more expensive.
Wedding for sure! Our wedding was $13-14k and our 10 day European honeymoon was only around $7k. I don't really see how you could spend more on the honeymoon than the wedding unless you have a really small and/or budget wedding. I mean, I'm sure it's possible to spend way more than we did on our honeymoon, but I don't think I could pay $1,000 a night for a hotel, which is what it would take for us to have spent more than our wedding.
Also, a wedding is a one time thing. Sure, you can't exactly re-do your honeymoon, but you'll have lots of other chances to vacation together. If you don't have the money, why not wait and have a really awesome 10 year anniversary vacation? I guess I just feel like you're so in love on your wedding day anywhere, even somewhere local, would be a great time. But in 10 years you'll be ready for a nice romantic getaway.
Hands down the wedding, we may skip the honeymoon. We figure we can go on trips at any point in our life, but since our families live in different states, we'll never get the chance to have everyone we love together again. We're turning our wedding into a wedding weekend and extending our stay, so it will be kind of like a honeymoon.
I think it's really hard to compare the two in terms of price. For us, we had 200 guests at our wedding. If we had spent 10K on it, I think it would have been considered a budget wedding. If we spent 10K on a honeymoon, it would have been considered an extravagant honeymoon (by my standards!)
For us, the wedding was a priority b/c it was important for us to have a lot of guests and to have lots of great food and drink for them! Thanks to a gift which helped woth our honeymoon we were also able to have a nice honeymoon but that was secondary in terms of importance.
I'd rather spend more on the wedding! Great trips will hopefully be frequent during our married life... but a wedding is a one time affair to be with the people who mean the most to us.
Wedding! It's the time to celebrate with your loved one. A honeymoon is just a vacation; we travel a lot and know how to make a small budget go far- the most important thing about a HM is you and him.
I don't think I could spend 25K on a vacation, so I'm going to say "wedding". We're spending 7K on the honeymoon which is a huge splurge for us. The wedding is also a splurge but I think it's comparing apples to oranges.
I voted "other." In theory I would rather spend more on a honeymoon than wedding... but that is really assuming I could have some minimum level of both. The truth is that to HAVE a wedding... there just isn't money left over for a nice honeymoon.
I said wedding, bc you can always do a big trip later, like we did!
We did a local minimoon. Since we didn't spend $ on travel, for all practical purposes, we felt like we could splurge a little more on the day to day expenses, so that was fun. 8 mos later, we went to Italy.
I went with other. We LOVE to travel, so we won't skimp on our honeymoon but we also will be spending more on the wedding. I know it's only one day, but we plan on having one special day followed by an awesome trip!
We loooooooove to travel, but we're not taking a big trip just because we're getting married... we've taken bigger vacations than our honeymoon will be, and we're planning a really big one after I take the Bar (um, if I am employed by then, anyway!). We're spending about 15X as much on the wedding as the honeymoon. ;)
Wedding -- it's a once-off event that I want to always conjure up incredible memories for not only us, but our guests as well.
Like other posters have said, we do a fair amount of traveling as it is so we weren't concerned with putting a lot of money towards a trip. We aren't even planning a honeymoon. We get quite a lot of alone time together already, so we really wanted to focus on a big celebration with our friends and family.
I chose wedding, because throwing the party for our family and friends is important, and our honeymoon will be fun no matter what we do! :)
[We are considering a cruise if we have the money, and an at-home honeymoon (i.e. pretend we're out of town and then go on day trips) if we don't. Either way, we'll do a mini-moon somewhere nice, like wine country.]
Also, the wedding affects how your loved ones see you and the new family you are starting together, as well as the two families you are joining by your marriage. I want that be a very positive impression!
Honeymoon without a doubt! Probably why we decided on a destination wedding...the best of both worlds IMO!
@DreamComeTrue...same here...we were all about the honeymoon so DW was the obvious choice. White sandy beaches, blue water, my FI all to myself....LOVE it
JA Bride...EXACTLY!!! FH lives in UK so we've been doing the long distance thing so this will be our first island adventure...can't wait :)
Ours too...we are also LDR (wlthough only 3.5 hours apart). It's hard to plan things b/c of our work schedules so this is our first MAJOR vacation....yay!!
i'd much rather spend the $ on my wedding. i want to feel like a princess through out the day and want my guests to have a great time. i'll remember the wedding for the rest of my life through pictures and don't want to be dissapointed.
If I was forced to choose, I would choose the wedding. You can have many vacations during your life, but only one wedding. Fortunately, we don't have this problem, but I would still choose the wedding.
I love traveling - especially with my FI. And I think we would both love to go on a crazy expensive honeymoon.. But honestly, it's more important to us to spend our special day with all of our family and friends. We have a large family and the majority of them are traveling to spend the day with us - I hope to spend as much time with them as possible! FI and I can go on lavish vacations later.. :)
We're spending more of our own money on the HM, but the wedding is costing more total.
I voted wedding, which is unusual for me seeing as I live for holidays but My wedding is in Switzerland and I have a lot of family coming from Australia for the event. They are coming so far that I really want them to have a good time ;) our honeymoon is on hold.....
I said wedding because I would never spend that much on a vacation! lol, SO has a 25k budget in mind for the wedding. This is still being debated. I want to get married sooner rather than later (meaning 20s not 40s) and I don't want money preventing me from marrying my SO. A fancy wedding isn't that important to me. I'd marry him in torn jeans in my backyard.
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