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For the poll, I would chose the 'other' option if there was one. We delayed our hm by a couple months so we could save money after the wedding. In the end, I ended up using my bonus check from work and part of our tax return check to pay for our trip. Oh, we went 5 months after the wedding.
@yrret107: i wanted an other option, too, but i'd filled up my poll answers already. I think that counts as saved up, even though it was after the wedding! I think waiting and paying in cash was the most responsible choice, plus it gave you something to still look forward to!
We're not 100% sure yet, but we will be doing a combination of the above. We'll have a certain portion of our honeymoon budget saved up (not quite sure how much yet - if we continue as is we'll have about 6K extra after wedding expenses, but if we can put aside a bit more in the last few months then it might be more), my parents are contributing some money (also unsure of the exact amount), and if we need to make up any difference, we will take out an additional loan on our mortgage. We consulted with our broker and even with a 10K addition to our mortage, our monthly payments only go up by $73/month. I wish we'd taken it out when we took out the mortgage and put that 10K into a high yield investment, but what can you do.
Its part of our wedding budget so we are saving up to pay for it in cash. We want NO debt after the wedding.
We made it part of our wedding budget too... so we saved up before the wedding.
@simplifiedbride: Oh, ok. Just so you know the polls allow for up 11 options. There should be a '[+] option' link underneath your current options to add more.
We're using cash on hand and hope (knock wood) there will be a little bit of money-gifts from the wedding that can be used to supplement the trip.
We're using the wedding money gifted to us by FI's parents and mine. We budgeted for 3k under what was gifted...but may end up using some of our own savings if we need to dig into that for unexpected wedding costs.
We are having a cheap honeymoon so we basically paid for it out of disposable income from one paycheck. The whole thing will be under $1000 though so its more of a mini-moon. We are hoping to take a longer honeymoon later this year and hope to pay for that from money we get from the wedding + saving after the wedding.
Its been a struggle to just pay for the wedding so we decided to a do a mini-honeymoon to take the pressure off of also paying for that as well.
@yrret107: thank you for that! i had no clue i could add more options. :)
It seems like most of us are paying cash for honeymoons which is so awesome, and obviously ideal. FI and I are so broke right now, I just don't see how we can save up much before the wedding, and I don't really want to use money in our savings since we own our home, and have to have "emergency" money. I think we're going to save up to go on a trip a few months after the wedding, but we'll see I guess.
FI's grandparents gifted us the cost of our resort stay, we'll be paying cash/saving for activities, meals, gas, etc.
I have an other.....FI saved on his own and he is paying for all of it. His gift to me :-)
I was lucky enough to get a small bonus at work so combined that with mine and FI's tax returns this year! That is what we used to pay for the whole thing! It's an all inclusive - so hopefully we won't need much $ when we get there....
We had planned to pay for everything in our wedding ourselves. We did end up getting 3k from my mom and my FFIL paid for our flight for the honeymoon.
We plan on using the money we get for our wedding. If that doesn't add up we are going to save. I am very against debt especially for things that are luxuries rather than necessities.
DH's parents gave us some money, and we're supplementing by saving for 8 months before we go. The gifted money was a complete surprise, and we would've spent what we're spending anyway - we're just going on a MUCH nicer honeymoon. We won't be able to travel like this for awhile, so we're making the most of it!
We included the HM cost in our total wedding budget and just saved accordingly.
It's kinda other.
We had saved up for it but due to generous wedding gifts by my immediate family we were a lot more comfortable during the HM without scrutinizing every single meal and or purchase.
But while on the honeymoon and all the planning of it everything was put on a credit card to accrue cash back then immediately paid off. And it was during a no interest period. We were overseas so we kept less than 200 Euros on us at all times.
we got a loan for 6k for just in case. so we used that for our honeymoon and rings and we have $1300 left. my parents are paying for the reception, hotel, dress, basically 75% of the wedding. and his mom is paying most of the vendors... we probably have 2k to pay if his mom doesn't end up paying for all of them. our registry is actually a honeymoon registry... meaning MONEY! haha. we already got $1200 from 2 people from our registry. we invited 75 people, about 50 couples... if they all contributed at least 20 bux, that's already $1000... but we know they will donate more. so our honeymoon will probably get paid off by that, if not at least half... but i keep getting a gut feeling that his step dad will be paying for our trip. i hope so! lol
We're saving up for it and using our larger-than-expected tax returns!
we put it on the credit card - and paid it off with our wedding money :)
For most of it we'll just be saving over the next year. Our bonuses (we get them quarterly) will pay for the bulk of it, but we also set a goal for ourselves to try to pay for the airfare using things like credit card rewards and the change we put in our piggy bank. We calculated today that we're really close to our goal, combined we have about $1k and we need $1400 :).
We used some of our tax returns and the rest we took out of our savings.
I still can't believe it's over. I would give anything to go back to our honeymoon! :)
Savings, if we couldn't have paid for it in full, we wouldn't be going.
We didn't have time or the money right after the wedding to go on a honeymoon, so we saved our first year of marriage and turned into a honeymoon/early anniversary/DH was FINALLY out of the military and could live at home with me trip. It was fabulous :)
we're digging into our savings and using up some generous wedding cash gifts. :)
A combination....part savings, part credit card (but, we paid it off already), and gifted from parents.
Saved! CC points, Hotel Points from frequent traveling FI and we also have a honeymoon type registry for some extras (www.uponourstar.com)
Man- I still feel like it will cost us more when we get there- I should have gone all inclusive! I want zero debt, so I am hoping we keep up our savings and don't get hit with any unexpected wedding things last minute!
Credit Card points! We put every expense for the wedding we could on the card, then paid the bill in full each month. All the points added up! When we combine them with points I already had, we get free airfare and accomodations!
We had saved up for it before the wedding as we usually take a trip each year. However, after all was said and done we decided we spent our wedding gift money on it, and put "our" money toward our down payment fund.
saving. our wedding and honeymoon are all in the same trip, so it really saves us money. gett married in disney, honeymoon in disney.
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Just wondering how everyone is paying for their honeymoon? Did you save up specifically for it? Use cash you already had in savings? Did one of your sets of parents gift you your trip? Take out a private loan? Charge it on your credit card? A combination of the above? Not sure exactly how we're paying for ours yet, but curious to see what other bees have done!! :) Thanks.