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Honeymooning at your DW location?

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    Lorienne    January 1, 2016   Los Angeles, CA

    Are you staying in the same city/state/country as your DW for your HM, or are you going elsewhere to relax after the wedding?

     
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    KateMW    8.30.03   Birmingham

    It's not technically a honeymoon with a vow renewal right? But, we are staying in Seaside for the rest of the week after our VR.

     
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    Miss Sapphire    December 2009   Seattle

    Nope.  We're leaving the day after and going off to some magical tropical isle.

     
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    We're staying in Hawaii. We're getting married on Maui and then travelling around to 1 or 2 of the other islands.

     
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    BeachyBride2010    Jan, 2010   Jamaica

    Staying at the wedding resort for a week, then off to a secluded boutique hotel for a private getaway at another part of the island after all the guests are gone.

     
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    Aimeegirl    up in the air... still!   Carmel, NY

    Hi there... the DW thing is something I'm only just considering over the last few days.. but I was wondering the same thing last night.  Both my fiance and I don't really see why we shouldn't stay at the Cape.. we both love it. However, I've been vacationing there for as long as I've been alive, I wondered if maybe it'd be nice to go someplace tropical, or a cruise for the HM.

    I'm really not sure, but maybe financially it pays to do the DW and HM at the same spot, or at least very near to eachother as some of the other girls above did/are doing.

    Good Luck :)

     
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    LittleBear    June 28, 2009   Chicago/beach wedding in NC

    We got married in NC on the beach and then went to Antigua for our honeymoon.

    Lots of people asked me the same question. We never really considered it and I am really happy we didn't stay there for the HM. The day after the wedding we hung out for awhile and spent some time with our friends and family. It was kinda sad cause everyone was leaving and it was a little depressing. I would not have wanted to stay another 2 weeks after all the fun and crazyness of our wedding was over. It was nice to relocate and have fun at a new destination Smile

     
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    WDWBride    March 3, 2010   Walt Disney World

    We are.  We are arriving on Monday, Wednesday is the wedding, and we are staying another week and a half after that!! We love our destination so why  leave it? :)

     
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    Karma007    10/10/2009   Bay Area

    Staying in Vegas for a brief honeymoon, which technically will begin Sunday at noon (when most family has left), and end in Las Vegas on Tuesday. We then have a few days off at home to reorganize.

     
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    tropicalbridey    June 19, 2010   living in California, marrying in Mexico

    we're staying put to honeymoon at the resort in Tulum where we're having the wedding.  we'll be there for a total of 9 days.  after the wedding we just wanted a few days to relax on the beach with books and frosty drinks, maybe take the boat to Cozumel for a day.  plus there are ruins to visit in Tulum, and lots of other architectural/ natural attractions to see.  I think it will be a lovely honeymoon :)

     
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    Bunny83    June 26, 1010   Chicago

    We're getting married at a family friendly resort in Jamaica and then transfering to a more intimate couples resort that's close by. Since we knew we would be spending at least 2 weeks in Jamiaca for both the wedding and honeymoon, we wanted to feel like we were someplace new and thought that we might need a more romantice change of pace. 

     
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    Irishker03    June 12, 2010   Boston (home), Geneva, NY (wedding)

    Our destination wedding isn't in a tropical location (we're getting married 5 hours from home i our college town), so we're going to be going elsewhere for our honeymoon!

     
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    We stayed at our wedding location for an extra week but it didn't end up being the romantic, relaxing vacay I'd imagined at all since our guests' departure dates were staggered. We only ended up getting 3 days to ourselves... during which it rained every day!

    We didn't mind too much because we'd sort of planned on having a second "real" honeymoon later.

    If that's not part of your plans though, I'd definitely recommend going elsewhere for your honeymoon - even if it's just the neighbouring resort! - to get that quiet time together that you're craving.

     
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    I am attending a DW where the couple will leave the following day to another resort on the same island in order to get some privacy for a week long honeymoon. FI and I along with another BM will also make a mini vacation out of it and transfer to a different resort (to see another part of the island) for 3 days after the wedding. I guess you need to decided if you want to honeymoon with family and friends or alone. My hometown destincation wedding is not a tropical location so we will be leaving for a beach destination 1 or 2 days after the wedding in order to properly say goodbye to our guests who flew in for the wedding.

     
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    JamaicaBride    May 14, 2011   Charlotte, NC

    We will be staying after our wedding. The resort is couples only and we are having a very small wedding...just us and our witnesses. I have a whole list of things I want to do but my sweetie just plans on lounging by the beach...LOL.

     
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    DWBride    June 30, 2010   Montego Bay, Jamaica

    We are spending three days with family in Jamaica at our DW resort and then they get to leave after the wedding while we spend another week all by ourselves!

     
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    meerkat    December 14, 2010   Riviera Maya, MX / Kalamazoo, MI

    We are staying at the same location the whole.  We are in a HUGE resort though and will have some space from our guests.

     
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    IslamoradaBride    March 27, 2010   Florida

    We are staying the night before, and the night of the wedding at a hotel right near our wedding location. We are not staying at the same hotel as our guests for privacy reasons. The day after the wedding we are having a brunch and then we will be leaving on a seven day cruise.

     
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    tvilase    11/28/09   Los Angeles

    We'll be in our location the week leading up to the wedding, giving ourselves a day of rest after, heading home for a couple nights, then leaving for our South American honeymoon. We chose our destination because we love it, but we've already spent time there and we love traveling, so we wanted to go someplace new for the honeymoon.

     
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    phedre    August 9, 2010   New Orleans, LA

    I had hoped to honeymoon in the greek isles, however since we are getting married in Hawai'i, I think that's too far to travel.  I love Hawai'i and this will be FI's first time there so I think we'll just honeymoon there.

     
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    bellebride    January 16, 2010   New York

    We are getting married in Orlando and staying there to relax for a week after the wedding with everyone who is coming, but it is not our honeymoon. We are doing a central america cruise in April!

     

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