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FI and I are undecided about leaving for our honeymoon the day after our Saturday wedding, or waiting one day until Monday. On one hand, we'd like to have the extra day away since our honeymoon will only be 7-8 days. On the other hand, it seems crazy having to rush to get to the airport at 8:00 a.m. the day after our wedding (which ends at midnight!). Just wondering what everyone else has done or is doing??? Thanks!
If we g et to have a honeymoon, I think it would be fun to "runaway" to a hotel close to the airport or something and then catch my flight the next day!
I honestly would wait an extra day. Spend the day lounging in bed, catching up on sleep, saving good bye to out of town guests... less rushed and more calm that way!
My husband and I waited one day to head off to our honeymoon and I am SO glad that we did... we were able to relax and enjoy our family and friends. It was nice to chill out and actually eat some of our wedding food! :) My parents hosted a big BBQ/leftover at their place and our loved ones came and went throughout the day. It was nice to talk with people we didn't have a whole lot of time for during our wedding and really thank those that helped our wedding process.
I will give you advice based on my experience. We were EXHAUSTED the day after our wedding!!!! I cannot even explain to you how tired we were the next day. Our reception ended at midnight and our after party ended at 2:00 am. We had a brunch the next morning at 11:00 am, then we barely dragged ourselves to my parents' house to open gifts. THANKFULLY we did not leave for our honeymoon that day!!! We went to a hotel that night and stayed in a beautiful suite....but it turned out there was not much romance to be had that night! We went to dinner and we were SO tired that before the food even came out, we just asked our server to box it up. We took it with us and instead of eating dinner, we went back to our beautiful suite and passed out!!!
I am SO INCREDIBLY HAPPY that we did not try to leave on our honeymoon the day after our wedding. Honestly, we were not feeling back to our normal selves until Wednesday of that week!
Just my opinion! In any case, enjoy your honeymoon....it's a magical time!
we are planning on leaving about 3-5 days after the wedding. The day after we are doing a brunch and then RELAXing!... then pack, and head out to our honeymoon. I def need some downtime after the wedding, i get overwhelmed too easy and leaving the morning after would be stressful for me.
we're facing a similar issue ... we've decided to leave the day after, then relax on our honeymoon. We think that'll keep the "magic" alive, lol.
I know that most, if not all people, are going to be tired the day after their wedding. But what I would do is leave the day after. You not only get possibly an extra day, but you can always sleep on the plane or crash when you get to your destination. That's just my opinion though!
We arn't 100% sure but we are planning to leave the day after. Will we be tired? oh yes, but we don't know a ton of time to take for vacations/etc and we will be moving to a new state right before/after the big day so we really can't afford to "waste" or ENJOY the extra time.
I think either way can work out nicely :)
Relax!! We got married on a Saturday and left on Tuesday. NO regrets.
we are getting married on a saturday and we won't be leaving for our honeymoon til tuesday. we are gonna have a trash the dress pictorials on sunday. monday would just be for relaxing :)
We are leaving the next day. We struggled with this, but then decided 1. it was cheaper by $200pp to leave the next day and 2. it's a 10 hour plane ride, so we can sleep if we are tired. Our reception ends at 10:30 though, so we figure we can be settled in by midnight that night, and our flight is at 8:30, so if we get up at 6, we'll be ok (we're staying at a hotel by the airport)
we're leaving a week after. my fi is a sloooow packer so it will take him that long to pack for the honeymoon, and we wouldn't want him to worry about that while getting ready for the wedding! for us, i feel like preparing for the wedding will be high anxiety, so i will be prone to migraines and tired. that week will give me a chance to get those migraines out and relax before my vacation- so i'll actually enjoy it.
I would give yourself the extra day. This was a debate for us as well and then my FI saw on the plungs (its like the bee but for men! www.theplunge.com) that it said to give yourself an extra day and so he was convinced. I do not want to have to worry about last minute packing/saying goodbye to people/checking out of the hotel really early in the morning before leaving for the honeymoon. IMO I think you will appreciate having a day in between and I dont think any of the magic of the honeymoon will be taken away because of it. You dont have to tell all of your guests that you are staying an extra day. You can just say that you are getting ready to leave, but they dont have to know WHEN that is!
Our wedding is on a Friday night, and we are leaving Tuesday. We are having a day after brunch, and then going home for a few days to relax, open gifts, and pack.
Plus airfare is way cheaper on a Tuesday :)
We're definitely waiting a day or two before leaving, I hate to be all stressed about travelling ad being exhausted and not getting a chance to bask in the wedding, just rush out...But that's just us, it's your call whether how much an extra day of your honeymoon is worth...Also, ours will be between 10 days and 2 weeks, so that's a slightly different scenario...
we're leaving like the week after. a lot of ppl will be here from far away and we want to spend time with them. and I don't want to feel overwhelmed with the packing and stuff and I HATE flying, and I get physically sick right before i fly, so I need time to prepare myself and I can't be worrying about that right before the wedding.
We're waiting an extra day. There's no way I'll be organized enough to just leave. This way we'll have time to tie up any remaining ends from the wedding and get organized.
We are going on a cruise and the majority of them leave on weekends, so we are getting married on a Saturday, we are both returning to work the following week, then leaving for seattle the following friday and setting sail on saturday!
I definitely get the romanticism of leaving the morning after, but I agree with a lot of the brides here that suggested waiting a day. We're getting married Saturday night and flying out late on Monday. First of all, we have a looooong day of travelling from the West Coast to the Caribbean and didn't want to do it completely exhausted and miserable....and secondly, we're holding our wedding in my FI's parent's backyard, so we wanted to be able to take a day to relax, open gifts, help clean up a bit, and say goodbye to our OOT guests that are travelling a long way for our big day. I think we'll appreciate the little bit of extra time, and arrive at our honeymoon feeling a lot more relaxed!
We are definitely going to wait a day before leaving. That way we can spend some more time with our OOTers and have a brunch or something the day after the wedding. There is so much to do before the wedding day, I don't want to have to add getting completely ready to leave for a week.
We are getting married on Sat and leaving for our honeymoon on Mon. Sun we are having a brunch for our OOT guests.
we are going 4 months later! plenty of time to recover from our wedding!! AHAHAHAAHAHA!
omg, i was so tired sunday, it wasn't funny. I would've been up til 3am packing Saturday morning if we were leaving Sunday.
It was great to have Sunday to sleep in, get a good breakfast in, some nice coffee, open gifts up with the family, make sure my cats had all the food/water/etc they needed to be left alone for a weeek, and PACk! We also went to Borders and stocked up (leisurely!) on what we wnated to read that week. It would've been a mad rush to get ready for the HM had we not had Sunday to do it.
We really don't want to see any family or friends the next day, as bad as that sounds. We are having an all day wedding day (morning ceremony, brunch reception, second party in the evening) and so not only will we be super tired the next day, but I feel like we've already spent a ton of time with our guests. We'll probably have a late flight the next day, and sleep way in!
From the other posts it looks like we're in the minority here, but my now-husband and I left immediately after the wedding! We went straight from the reception to the airport. Crazy, right? It actually worked out really well for us because we were heading to Europe, only slept a few hours on the plane, then stayed up as long as possible that Sunday and slept for maybe 12 hours that night -- the result was the we skipped jet lag all together!
I've been to Europe many times and I've never had such success adjusting before (but I've also never been on Cloud 9 like that), so if you are heading East you may want to consider that option.
I'd wait the extra day. You'll be so exhausted and travelling is an exhausting thing as well. Doing it one after the other means that you'll spend the first day of your honeymoon just recuperating from that alone.
If I were you, I would wait a day or two also. My wedding is not for another year yet, but I know from friends who have been married they say you feel SO rushed - gifts are not fully taken care of or transported to where the couple feels is safe, guests sometimes have not left yet, exhaustion from the big day, etc... Personally, I am a teacher and will prob HAVE to wait until summer to take the honeymoon...but if I didn't have to, I would wait minimum one day btwn wedding and take off.
Good luck with whatever you decide!
We waited a day, and it was great for us. We didn't have to think about doing laundry or packing for the trip before the wedding. You'll already have so many things to take care of leading up to the big day that it's nice not to think about preparing for your trip until afterwards. BUT, we both had a lot of flexibility in our time off from work. I wouldn't trade a single day of my honeymoon for anything. If waiting a day means one less day of actually being on your honeymoon, I don't think I would wait to leave. Just make sure you get your trip preparation/packing done prior to the last few days before the wedding so you don't stress yourself out. And maybe make very light plans for the first day of your trip so you guys can nap :)
We are waiting a day....but that is largely b/c we will be too tired to drive. We are actually losing a day of our vacation that way b/c we are using a timeshare which actually has an official check-in day as the day we get married.
We may change our mind as it gets closer (and decide we don't want to pay money for a hotel another night), but right now that's the plan!
Thanks, everyone! :) Lots of great advice!
I think we're going to wait until Monday. We'll still have 7 nights/8 days away for HM, and I like the idea of having the one day to relax and get everything squared away without the stress of leaving only 8 hours after the reception is over. Thank you, again!!! :)
If we are able to take the cruise we want, we will actually leave the next weekend! Honestly, I am looking forward to some time to decompress from the wedding so that the HM isn't a total blur.
Wait! Sleep in, spend some time with your family and leave yourself time for that last minute packing. We actually waited a month but that was mostly because we went to Africa for 2 weeks and since we had a destination wedding we took almost a week off for that as well so we couldn't get that many days in a row. But I was REALLY glad to not have to get up super early the next day.
Thanks for all the input. We were in the same delema. We can't leave until the Sunday afternoon due to the brunch, but I think we will just relax around town (maybe order room service) and then head out first thin Monday morning.
Our wedding is Friday night and we are leaving for our honeymoon Sunday morning. I think we will really need the day on Saturday to get ourselves together - I can't imagine leaving the day after!
We're waiting until Monday for a few reasons:
-we're having a brunch at my parents' the next day
-we will be exhausted
-we don't live where we're getting married. Albany only has a small airport and it costs exponentially more to fly out of there than to fly out of NYC. So we're going to head back to NYC in the afternoon and leave from there in the morning.
I have been told by so many others that they wish they had take a day between the honeymoon and wedding to finish last minute details like return tuxes, etc...
Our wedding is on a Saturday & we're leaving to go on a cruise that Thursday. We would've left sooner, but nothing was available to leave the day after (nothing that we wanted, anyway)...but I'm happy nevertheless!
We are getting the heck out of dodge. Cause for me, there is no way I will relax at home. We are in the middle of Do-it-yourself renovations and I am alllllways cleaning. SO the most relaxing thing for us will be to leave the next morning. This prevents us from working on the house or whatever and allows us to relax on a beach ;-)
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