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We did just that.
DH and I got married in September of last year. We went on a 2 night "mini-moon" to Quebec the Monday after the wedding.
However, due to moving to moving overseas 1 week after the wedding we had to postpone our honeymoon.
We are leaving a week from tomorrow and I am SO excited! It's been awesome to have extra time not only to plan our honeymoon, but settle in as a married couple AND have an awesome trip to look forward to.
I haven't been on the trip yet, but I highly doubt it'll feel like just another trip since it'll be the longest trip either of us have ever taken and to a once in a lifetime location.
Haven't had it yet (lol obviously) but we plan to take our honeymoon in November, 3 months after the wedding. Part of it is location - Florida is kinda iffy weather-wise in August/September, part is to save money since we'll be going off peak season and I also just like the idea of having some time between the craziness of the wedding and our honeymoon to let things sink in. I think it'll be really nice and just as much a honeymoon as it would be a day or a week after.
@KatNYC2011: omg i can't believe it's been almost 5 months since your wedding already!
We are doing the same thing! FI is currently in law school, so we can't even do a minimoon right after our wedding. 
We will stay one night in a fancy hotel the night we get married, but the following Monday (two days after our wedding), it's back to class for him. So we plan on taking our honeymoon over his spring break in February/March. I am actually happy about it because it will give us something exciting to look forward to, and that's the time of year that we start getting spring fever BIG TIME - so it will be fun to escape for awhile!
thanks ladies! i agree with all of you...where i live here in wisconsin its usally very cold in february so its always nice to get away somewhere warm then...and i think the excitement will just continue even longer after the wedding, looking forward to a fabulous honeymoon in a hot and exoctic location :)
@Mrs. Meowerson: I know! I can't believe it either. Crazy!
I still feel like a newlywed and cannot believe it's finally time for our amazing trip.
Plus it is SO cold here right now, I cannot wait to be on safari and on the beach. I need some sun and warmth!
Yep, we're waiting a few months as well. Getting married on August 4, and honeymoon will likely be in October (nothing booked yet though). We're going to Spain (Barcelona) and August would just be too hot for us to go walk around/visit etc.
We're actually taking our honeymoon two months after the wedding. No added stress about packing for the honeymoon, or not being able to fully enjoy ourselves because we have to fly the next day. We're going home after our really nice stay in the hotel on Saturday night because we want to open gifts and enjoy a few days off together in our house!
The FI is working on his Masters and need to drive my car/move my stuff from NC to CT right after the wedding so we are taking a minimoon in DC (halfways) for a couple of days on our way up with my stuff/car. We are planning to take our honeymoon later in the year, sometime between him finishing summer classes and starting fall classes. :)
A LOT of friends and family did this for numerous reasons and they all still loved and enjoyed their honeymoon and said it still felt special!
I was married in November and still haven't taken a honeymoon. Honestly I think we've about given up on calling this our honeymoon. It doesn't feel the same and I really wish we'd gone immediately. (We have crazy work schedules and chose to see family for Christmas instead of taking our honeymoon then). So far, this has been my biggest regret. DH hated all of our honeymoon plans and we've both traveled around the world, so no place felt special enough. (Just writing this is making me upset).
We did go on a mini moon which was nice.
@Missido: Great plan! It's my understanding that most of Spain (and some other European countries) pretty much shut down in August. So going in August might not only mean heat, but it might also mean a lot of closed shops, restaurants and attractions!
Also, coming back to work 3 days after my wedding was anticlimactic. None of my coworkers congratulated or acknowledged my wedding, so the newlywed glow wore off pretty quickly here.
My husband and I took three days for ourselves and stayed close to him. Between our two kids and our work schedules, we could just not fit in a honeymoon, so we decided to delay our official honeymoon to our one-year anniversary!
Throw out the rulebook, this one is about what works for you guys!
Thank you @KatNYC2011: I had no idea!! Another good reason to go in October 
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I am not sure what we are going to do yet. The original plan was to go the next Friday after the wedding to Mexico for 7 days. But now FI is laid off! We are trying to make it work money wise, but he wants to postpone it. My concern is we will never go then. We want to TTC right away.
We're doing this, so it's nice to hear other bees' experiences. My employment status is a huge question mark, as I'm finishing a grad program right now, and FI is trying to change jobs - so we might not have the leave even if we could afford a long trip.
We're just planning on a nice anniversary trip.
I'm already married and we had an immediate honeymoon. I wish I could turn back time so bad and NOT do that. We were EXHAUSTED throughout the entire thing because we had a very busy engagment as far as travelling and planning went. We were also not "relaxed" because there were still tid-bits from the wedding that had to be finished right when we came back.
I wish we would have post-poned it at least like 2 weeks if not 4...
This is what we planned on doing. We took a mini-moon (3 nights) to a city around 4-5 hours away. All in all, it cost us max $500. We had a lot of fun and stuff, but it def. wasn't your all out trip like most people have. We planned on taking a full on, flight actually needed, trip that winter or the next (our thought process: why leave the upper Midwest when it’s nice during the summer, wait until you can to escape the snow/ice/salt covering your car weather) but it never happened. Now, we’re talking kids. Needless to say, I’ll probably never have what most people would consider a real ‘vacation’ to somewhere like Italy or the tropics. I think this is a good idea if you actually actively planning your postponed honeymoon when you get married (we didn’t we just figured we’d plan it closer to when the time came) but if you wait, longer than three months it's just going to feel like another vacation.
@NurseMarriedToAFarmer: I agree!
I'd only eait a max of 4 weeks...you still want to be "newlyweds" :)
@Ms Bookworm: I start classes two days after my wedding too :( We're taking a minimoon the following weekend though and then a real honeymoon for our one year anniversary.
We are getting married at the end of June and probably won't have time to go on a honeymoon until Christmas unfortunately. But I'm not worried. We will have more time and we can escape the winter for a while. We will make it a honeymoon by going a little more all out I think. If we go to a resort it'll definitely be extra special, as opposed to the resort trips that are an all inclusive week on the beach. Not that there's anything wrong with those (I love em!) but going to a super fancy place would be nice for a honeymoon.
No problem what so ever, I think it's normal. Not everyone has the vacation time, money, etc to do the honey moon the next day or whatever. I've contemplated doing a mini-moon to somewhere semi local and then in 6 months or so taking a good week to go somewhere beautiful....still newlywed :) <3 Do what ever your heart desires!
We are doing our six months later. We were married this last September and just booked our trip for March. I only have 2 weeks vacation and used that all for our wedding as we went home to get married. I think it would of been too exhausting to go right away. We came home and finished up all wedding related things and now we get to go away and just have fun being newlyweds.
I think that, if you don't have a choice, then having a belated honeymoon is fine and it will still be wonderful. However, if you have the option of going immediately after the wedding (and are only considering delaying to be able to go away in the winter, etc.), then I would go right away. There is something romantic about getting married and then immediately wisking off on a honeymoon!
FI suggested it because he was considering a med cruise and april is not quite warm enough. My feelings were, thats fine but i am not getting married on a Saturday and going back to work Monday so that settled that. He is not in a position where he could take a few days off after the wedding and then two more weeks a month or two later. Our wedding is April fourteenth, we spend two nights in a hotel and then go on an eleven night cruise. So excited!
I guess I'm alone in this one we're delaying the honeymoon for about 2 years. But that's also in part due to the fact we want to spend 15,000 on it and do it "right" and by right I mean live that shit up.
My DH and I are going on our 'real' honeymoon 10 months after our wedding. We are taking 2.5 weeks to Asia. We took many weekend trips and minimoon to Jamaica.
Can't wait!
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Just wanted to see if you have planned a honeymoon that isnt right after the wedding, if it still felt the same, as if it was your honeymoon and not just a vacation? we are getting married end of october and are highly considering booking our honeymoon the following february!! so about 3 and a half months later....we will go on a little mini moon right after the wedding for a few nights as well. :)