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My parents didn't go on their honeymoon until the next long-weekend (they got married in September, so their honeymoon wasn't until a while after). They went camping in Banff, and had a blast. =)
Sara of http://2000dollarwedding.com is going on her honeymoon right around her 1-year anniversary. She and her husband are planning on making it a yearly trip sort-of thing.
As for me...I probably will have to have my honeymoon later, just because my fiance may do an internship program with the university, and so his degree would take five years, but we're planning on marrying at the end of August of 2012, so we'd need to wait until he had a break from school. Part of me wants to get hitched a year earlier (2011) because it'll be my parents' 25th, and their parents' 50th! (It's so meant to be...!)
We aren't going right away either. There's so much effort and anxiety with the wedding perfection- that it makes no sense to have to get stressed with shopping, packing, and planning for a honeymoon right away.
Plus, We're planning on buying a house in the next couple months, hopefully before or immediately following the wedding- that a honeymoon really isn't priority one. Along with buying a house, we also would like to do something other than just sit on a beach. That can be part of it- but we want to plan more that just sitting around in sun. We're thinking traveling around Europe. Ireland, Castles in Scotland, Paris, Spain, and then maybe finishing in the gorgeous greek islands.
Anyone else want the- no sooo traditional (ie. beach, cruise, etc.) honeymoon?
aw, we're scrimping and saving any chance we can get; we're doing the honeymoon right after and found some great deals in the carribean; I feel like if you don't take it right away you won't feel like honeymooners it just feels like a vacation;
maybe you can cut things out, cut 10-20 people out; cut down on flowers or DJ, skimp on things so the budget can go towards a honeymoon; there are some great deals all - inclusive (all you can eat and drink) for just 1400 in the carribean
We got married in November but are going on our "honeymoon" in September! Neither of us could handle planning the honeymoon when we had so much going on with the wedding, plus we didn't want to have two huge expenses so close in time. Even though I was kinda bummed at the time, I'm so glad we did it this way -- it's given us something to look forward to so much the first year of our marriage! I can't wait!!! :)
We're taking our Cancun honeymoon in February, almost 6 months after the wedding. We want to spend some time with out of town guests and don't want to feel rushed. Fall doesn't work for us because of football schedules, so we're going the week of our birthdays instead.
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@ilovenycmissie-No, the whole not going on a honeymoon is not financial wise it's time wise. We have talked about going somewhere but sometime later. I just feel that everyone around me is leaving the next day after their wedding, like my brother and SIL, and aren't.
@LilMissPriss-made a good point about the house, we are thinking of making that purchase in a few months as well.....on that note I had a great idea. Maybe we can make our honeymoon at our new house!
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We are going 1 month after the wedding. We booked our honeymoon first, thinking we were having a sept wedding... :D kidna glad, because it gives us an extra month to save, and time to sort the cards b4 we leave.
We can't go right away because I'm a law student and we're getting married mid-semester, so I can't get the time off. We're either going to go over Thanksgiving (if my FI can get the following day off work) or over the winter holidays, when we both have time off. It'll be fine, but the thought of going right back to school afterward is kind of icky.
We're taking a week long vacaton about a month before our wedding! We can't take a honeymoon after the wedding because I will have used up all my vacation time (and then some) with vacation in July and then the wedding (which, since it's Labor Day weekend, I'll only have to take one day [possibly] 2 off). FI wanted to take our honeymoon next summer but that's when his family (mom, dad, sister & grandparents) go to Cape Cod which is where he proposed - I definitely want to go back there near our 1 year anniversary! :)
If we do anything, it might be two nights at a local hotel. Just to get away from "normal" life. But I think we'll be just fine if it doesn't happen. I'd rather go out to CA this year to see some of his family (whom I've never met). That way, I get a small vacation, and I won't feel so weird meeting his fam the day of.
We arent going on our honeymoon for MONTHS after our wedding.
We have a lot of prior engagements after our wedding that we didnt want to cancel just for our honeymoon. We also couldnt get the time off and my FI just got promoted so time off right now is out of the question.
We also want to have a 2 week honeymoon so it works out best to wait a couple of months. We are thinking in Dec or Feb sometime. works for us and I have no issues with it!
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We're waiting a couple of months to go on our honeymoon. I have to get through the bar exam before we can go. We are going to Europe for two weeks, so I couldn't take that much time away until the test is over.
We're getting married in August but not going on our honeymoon until January. Although we are getting married in Hawaii (I'm from there and FH has family there), we didn't to have that as our honeymoon since we will be spending LOTS of time with family, which is nice but definitely NOT honeymooning. We're waiting until the new year when we have more vacation time.
We are getting married on the Honeymoon. That is to say as soon as we leave Houston, I will consider it our Honeymoon. We fly all night to arrive in Australia two days after we left the states. We get showers and then we get married. One night in Adelaide and then a week with 4 other people taking photos of sharks.
In a way it doesn't feel very Honeymoonish.
I can see an advantage to waiting if you have that luxury. I was actually reading about the tradition of honeymoons earlier this evening at http://www.weddingnight.com/ideas/honeymoon-sex.html .
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I went to a girl's wedding where they had to postpone the honeymoon for a year because they spent much more than they wanted to on their wedding. Even though it was delayed, they had a great time and couldn't say enough about their honeymoon. I think that what really matters is that you love each other.
we're going on our honeymoon 4 months after the wedding because it will be too hot to go right after the wedding. however, we will take the weekend following the wedding just for ourselves - maybe camping.
@ carmen2009: could you plan for a few days together in a B&B as a mini-honeymoon while you're in GA for the holidays? it would be nice to have that as something to plan and to look forward to.
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We don't have a honeymoon planned for right now. Since we are moving and need to get furniture. As well, I still am looking for a job. A honeymoon is out of the question for now. Plus, I am looking forward to just spending some alone time though with my honey since he'll be returning from deploymet right before the wedding. I am looking forward to building our home together. Maybe down the road once we get settled and know what's going on with a job.
We didn't go on our honeymoon until two months after our wedding because we wanted to ensure fantastic weather on our cruise.
We are REALLY glad we did it that way. We had so many people coming from out of town for our wedding, it was nice to be around all weekend to see everyone. You have so little time at the wedding to really talk to anyone at great length.
We stayed at a fancy hotel the weekend of our wedding, so it was almost like a mini-honeymoon, and we planned a lot of casual BBQs & beach parties for the out of towners.
Like you, we lived together before we got married. I think the whole leaving right after your wedding on your honeymoon was a tradition made a long time ago for people to consummate their marriage. In this era, do what feels best for you!
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We are waiting about 4 months to go on our vacation. We are doing a weekend wedding 4 hours rom our place, so I'm leaving early for our location. As a result, there is just no way I could be sure to get two weeks off from work without wanting to kill myself the week before.
FI and I have been together a long time, and have travelled a lot together. I planned our two biggest trips (India and Vietnam), but he tends to handle our smaller getaways. I've given him almost complete control over the Honeymoon, with the caveat that we cannot spend the whole time in a yurt (his dream trip is Eastern Russia...sigh).
As a result, I wuld rather take a nice big trip that I don't have to be so stressed about.
It was a little tough to just go back to work at few days after the wedding, and to get thrust back into normal life, but in all honesty, it's also been really centering and healthy for us. The last two weeks before the wedding were filled with projects, emotions, spending, appointments and we basically put our regular life on hold for those two weeks. It has been nice to get back to the schedule and lifestyle we enjoyed together before wedding planning took centre stage, but with that newlywed feeling wrapped around us. Plus, we have the next four months to get ready for our big "honeymoon" trip in September, which I couldn't imagine trying to do while also planning and executing our wedding!
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we're holding off on the hmoon until we can REALLY afford the trip we want and in the meantime put some furniture in our new place :)
we're waiting because our best friends get married the weekend after us and we're in their wedding and then my brither gets married the weekend after that! We may have to wait awhile to save up vacation time again:(
We are going to Cancun at the end of October (wedding was at end of April) for a few reasons:
To spend time with family from out of town who came to the wedding
To avoid taking off too much time at once (he gets vacation time, but I don't) and also he can't just take vacation whenever he wants - October is one of the weeks available for him to take his vacation
We're moving next month, so that would be even more time we would be out of work.
We're waiting 6 months and going over the holidays. That way we can take more time off work and save up some more money! It'll give us something else to look forward to.
But we are doing a destination/vacation wedding, so we are spending 9 days in the mountains surrounding our wedding weekend. That's our mini-moon!
We just got married last week and we there for our destination wedding almost a full week before the wedding and then 3 days after so we kind of had a pre-wedding honeymoon and still got some time after. Also, we are planning the real honeymoon for the fall and we might be going to Disney in a month so we can get like three trips out of it! hehe
We are waiting a few months before going on our honeymoon. He suggested it and it's what makes the most sense, in terms of the weather where we'll be going and our finances.
I keep reminding myself of these things everytime I think about it, because my emotional reaction is to get really sad and kind of weepy about the delay. I'm not really much of a wedding person, but I have always dreamed about jumping in the car right after the reception and taking off for a dream honeymoon. I've made so many compromises on almost every aspect of the wedding, so I kind of feel like I'm getting cheated out of the one thing I really did want.
We're going camping for a few days and plan to take a big trip in the winter. We're moving just after the wedding, buying a new house, FI is starting a new job and my brother is getting married so it was just too busy a time to get away. I'm actually looking forward to having a wedding-related thing to still plan after the wedding. I know I'm going to be in total withdrawal!
We're not. Because we are a same-sex couple, we're having to travel 8 hours away for the wedding itself. We're then having a reception back home three days after the wedding, so we'll just spend the intervening time preparing for the reception.
We probably will not have a honeymoon right away. We are both small business owners and it's really hard to get away.
As of right now, we aren't planning on going right away because we live so far from our families, we want to use that time to spend a little extra time with them.
My fiancee and I are not honeymooning right away. Unfortuately, I just started working at this company in February and it takes forever to accrue time off. I estimate I will have earned 7 days off in the year 2067. So, we will have to put the honeymoon on hold for now. I serioulsy will only have earned two whole days off by the time the wedding rolls around, which obviously is not long enough to truly get away.
Nope no honeymoon here either. I opted to have a wedding instead. Maybe next year for the world cup? Yeah right in our dreams. Seriously though no plans as of yet to go anywhere soon. We are paying for the wedding ourselves and since I will be graduating next year I need to find a job before we start taking a vacation. My FI is actually only taking the day before the wedding off. I start school the week after our wedding so that will be my rest.
Have fun...those of you who are taking a honeymoon.
We want to go to the caribbean for our honeymoon but it hurricane season so we're waiting until after christmas. I'm excited because I think it will be nice to have a vacation a few months later and give us something to look foward too. We are going to take a mini vacation the weekend after we get married since it will be labor day weekend.
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We aren't because FH is leaving the following Tuesday for 2 weeks training and we want to save our vacation time to visit his family for the holidays in GA. I secretly feel cheated out of one but then again as I told him as long as we are together I don't care where we are at. Plus we live all alone in our house so we have all the privacy we want anytime.