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My FI and I have been looking into booking our honeymoon, and we have come into kinda a problem. We will be having A LOT of out of town family and friends come in who we havent seen in a long time. We really want to spend time with everyone, but at the same time we feel like if we wait a few days after the wedding to leave on the honeymoon it wont feel as special. Im wondering when you other ladies went on your honeymoon or plan to go, also if you went after a few days do you wish you left sooner?
we are getting married may 28th. thats right about the time summer starts here so we plan on staying here until september or october than leaving for a honeymoon.
We're going the morning after, but we don't have any OOT guests. I don't think there's anything wrong with waiting a few days! It's still going to be special!
We're getting married on a Sunday and we're planning on going on the Tuesday or even Wednesday so i'll vote a few days later.
We are getting married on the night of the 10th and leaving on the 12th on a red eye flight!
We got married on a Saturday and left on Thursday. I'm SO glad we did it that way. We had time to open the presents, deposit cash & checks, talk with our families, visit with OOT guests, unpack all the stuff we took to the wedding, etc. Plus we paid for our flights with airmiles and it was literally half the points to leave on Thursday vs any day before then (Thursday was first day of low season), so it worked out well ;)
We're getting married on a Friday, my family is having a BBQ for all the OOT guest on Sat, and we're leaving right after the BBQ on Sat night!
We are getting married on a Saturday and leaving for our honeymoon Monday morning. We wanted Sunday to wake up in the hotel, visit with OOT family, recover from the night before ;) and then head out Monday morning!
We're getting married on May 22nd (a Sunday) and leaving for honeymoon on May 27th (the following Friday). We don't feel like it will be less special at all. I'm actually more excited, because we get to have a wonderful wedding night in a nearby hotel, enjoy the entire next day relaxing together, then go home and enjoy the next couple of days with our (OOT and local) families before our honeymoon even starts! Then we can head out on our honeymoon without being stressed out from the wedding.
Also, I don't want to stress out about packing for our honeymoon while dealing with last minute wedding things. So I can put off honeymoon packing until after the wedding and after most OOT family are gone.
I want to add that friends of ours are leaving for their honeymoon on a red-eye flight on the night of their wedding. They are going to be so exhausted during their flights and it doesn't seem like they will really get to enjoy the excitement and anticipation of their honeymoon during their travels. We are avoiding that stress by leaving a few days later.
We're getting married on a Saturday and leaving the next afternoon after doing a brunch with some friends and family. I'm really excited to have it all be one event. :)
We are getting married on a Saturday evening and have 90% OOT guests. We are leaving for our honeymoon the following day (Sunday). Our flight is at 4pm, so we have a little time in the morning to see everyone before we go, but FI wants us to disappear incognito, haha.
We are leaving the Sunday, a week after our wedding. So it'll be a week and one day after the wedding that we're leaving for our cruise.
It was either that, or try to drive 9 hours down to LA the DAY after our wedding. Leaving at 9am the day after my wedding does not sound fun!! So we'll have a week of 'normal' life, drive home, and fly to LA the following week.
@toBeMrsPierce: I am ALSO a to be Mrs. Pierce! Woohoo! Wonder if our FI's are related? :) We, too, have a lot of family in from out of town but a lot of them are planning to come a week or two ahead of the wedding. Then they plan to do sightseeing after the wedding so they won't need us around for that. We are planning to leave on our honeymoon on the Monday after our Saturday wedding. My parents are hosting a Sunday morning brunch for all the OOT guests and close family and bridal party of course. We didn't want to wait too long to leave for our honeymoon because we don't have tons of time off from work and wanted a nice long two week honeymoon.
We are getting married on a Saturday. Sunday come home and flying out on Monday Morning.
We're going the afternoon after our wedding. About 75% of our guests are out of town, but we figure we'll just see them at the wedding for a few minutes. We want this time to ourselves. I think you would be fine leaving whenever though.
We're getting married Saturday night and leaving Sunday afternoon. My FI's parents are throwing a brunch the morning after for family, bridal party, and out of town guests so we will be able to spend time with these people before we leave.
I couldn't vote using the poll options. Our wedding is on Friday night and we leave for our honeymoon on Sunday. So a couple days later....? Ha!
We're getting married Saturday and leaving Monday morning, so we still have Sunday to visit with OOTers. We didn't want to wait too much longer because that would just mean extra days that FH had to take off work that we wouldn't even be honeymooning or wedding-ing.
We are getting married on a Sunday evening and our flight is at 6:30am on Monday! Yuck!!! FI only gets that week for vacation though so we didn't want to miss any time at our resort. We figure that we will have plenty of time to rest once we get there!
OP, I think it would still be just as special leaving a few days later! If FI's vacation time wasn't an issue we would be doing it that way!
About 3/4 of our guests are OOT and we did say we would try getting together with them the day after the wedding. But I'm sure they know we...eh hem....may be unavailable the day after the wedding. We are really playing that part of things by ear.
Thanks everyone for sharing your honeymoon plans!! this reallyy eases my mind for whatever we choose to do!
We're leaving for our honeymoon 2 weeks and 1 day after our wedding. We chose to do this for a number of reasons:
1. There were only 2 cruises leaving out of NJ in October. One left the day after our wedding and the other was 2 weeks later.
2. We didn't really want to leave the morning after our wedding. We're going to want some time to unwind and visit with OOT guests.
3. I think waiting a few weeks is going to help me to not be quite so bummed after the wedding is over.
Marrying in May, Honeymoon in January or February. He wants to honeymoon in Jamaica, he hates cold, he's deploying in July for 4-6 months, and June is in hurricane season. More of a vacation than a honeymoon, but I'm the one pointed out the logic of delaying, so I can't complain.
We left Monday morning and were SO glad we did. We also had some out of town guests and got to spend Sunday morning with them and open gifts later at my parents. We were so tired it was just so nice to have that time to relax.
We are getting married on a Friday and leaving for our honeymoon on Monday.
@toBeMrsPierce: Hi almost date twin! I think it's great that you want to spend time with your family! I think it will still be special if you leave a few days after your wedding. You can tell from the poll results that this is kinda normal. It also might give you a few days to unwind and relax after all the stress of the wedding.
Anyway, to answer your question...We are getting married on the beach. Our family and friends are staying at the condo where we're getting married. After the reception, we will immediately leave and go to another condo about 10 mins away and stay for a week.
We're getting married on May 21st and leaving for our honeymoon on July 2nd. We decided to wait a while because a) my FI's job is EXTREMELY busy during the month of June and we didn't want to have to rush back from the honeymoon b) we wanted to have some time to get settled after the wedding, open gifts, send thank-you's, etc. That way when we go on our honeymoon, the pressure of wedding stuff will be behind us and we can truly enjoy ourselves! Plus, it kind of extends our wedding celebration :) ...not to mention the fact that we're both off from work the entire month of July!!
The day after our wedding was labor day so we hung out with family that had traveled to be at our wedding. After that we both went back to work for 3 days, lol We then left on Friday for our 9 day honeymoon. I think leaving the morning after the wedding would be rough.
we are leaving the following Saturday after our wedding. My FI's family will be here from Korea and I have to watch his mothers store so she can go on vacation with them to the beach. At least all of the fun and excitement wont be over all at once!! LOL
My situation is similar to cyneswith's, except that we're getting married in November and honeymooning in January (after the National Championship football game). My man is *obsessed* with college football and asked if we could wait to 'moon. Since we are getting married during football season, I thought it would be a nice compromise.
Plus, we'll be getting off-season discounts. Yippee!
I agree with @jaylii9, I think it would be super rough to leave for our honeymoon the day after the wedding. There's just so much that would still be happening to leave it all behind. I'm a worrier though, and that may have something to do with it.
we left the morning after - our flight left at 7:30
if i could do it again i would have pushed it out - either that evening or the next day.
we had alot of family in town and i felt like with all the activities prior to the wedding and all the excitement of the reception i didnt get to spend as much time with certain people as i would have hoped - it would have been nice to have that extra day. IMO
we are going on our honeymoon 3 weeks after the wedding. We wanted to take a mediterranean cruise, and the ones we wanted either left ON our wedding or 3 weeks later. Both of my bffs left for their honeymoon within a few hours of getting married - and neither of them recommended it. They both said that they just slept for the first 2 days of the trip (what a waste!).
I'm glad that I'll have those 3 weeks to recover and do TY notes (my family is uber pushy with TY notes. God forbid you don't get them out the next day!)
@toBeMrsPierce: we got married on a Saturday and left for our honeymoon Monday morning. We were so glad we did it this way! We had all day Sunday to go to our day after brunch and visit with a lot of our guests a second time around and say goodbye to everyone individually. We also got to spend more time with our families. Then we opened gifts, ate some more and then we went out to dinner just the two of us as our first dinner as a married couple. That night we had some extra time to pick up a few more honeymoon things and get ready. We were totally refreshed by the time our honeymoon rolled around. Even if we had waited a week I think it still would have felt just as special. To me honeymoon = the first real vacation as husband and wife!
We are getting married on a Saturday, and then our plane leaves Sunday morning at 6! We have to be at the airport no later than 4:30...its going to be a long day, but I cant wait!!
Wait till at least Monday for a Saturday wedding!
If you think about your wedding day you will be busy and up all night long, there is nothing worse than having to make sure you have everything ready to go and head to the airport at 4am for a 6am flight. If you wait till Monday you can say good bye to your out of town guest, relax & rest, and head out Monday morning.
You never want to get to paradise and then be so tired you don't want to do anything. Wait a day or so and then head out - you will be so glad you did!
We're leaving Tuesday after a Sunday wedding. We figured a day after the wedding to pack and hang out with or see the out of towners off or unwind, didnt want to wake up early the next morning after the wedding... and the flights happen to be the cheapest on a Tuesday.
We orginally planned a Euro-trip right after the wedding, but when I was laid off a few months before, it threw a wrench it. Instead, we did a weekend mini-moon right after, took a smaller trip 6 months later, and will take an anniversary trip in a few months. It's not Italy, but it worked out.
My parents left the morning after their wedding and mom still talks about how sad she was having to leave the best gethering of friends and family they were ever going to have in one place.
She was so sad she missed the next day hungover breakfasts with everyone and talking about the wedding with everyone. By the time they came back from their honeymoon the wedding was kinda old news for everyone else so they felt they had missed a lot of the excitement. I? say stretch it out and milk it for all it is worth!!
Your honeymoon will be just as special in a few days/week/months! Unfortunately we can't go on ours for at least a month because we can't get enough time off work together all in one block. :( I wish we were going a few days after the wedding but I'm consoling myself with still having something to look forward to in the comedown after the wedding!
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