My fiance and I are getting married in September. We are paying for the wedding ourselves and it will completely clean us out. We’re planning on asking for our honeymoon as wedding presents from this site called honeyfund.com, but we don’t know ahead of time how much our family members will be willing to give us. We could use some ideas for destinations which will make us feel special without breaking the bank.
I would like:
-Old world feel of Europe, (castles, quaint villages, etc.) but we can’t afford the air-fair
-I’m not a beach person, I burn wearing 100spf sunscreen, I would prefer mountains
-Spa treatments
-Adventures like horseback riding, and ATV tours
-I want to feel important, I would prefer to be princess for a weekend than peon for a week
He would like:
-Boats, boats, and more boats! He loves sailing
-Action like parasailing, snuba [different from scuba], and jetskiis
-Colonial, Pirate-y feel, like the Bahamas
We can’t afford air-fair to europe, and we want to go somewhere new, so Colonial Williamsburg, Gettysburg, Baltimore, and Quebec are all no longer options.
So what do you think?
Our wedding is not that far away and I am starting to make detailed plans for it. We are going to Barbados and I want to know when is the best time to leave? I haven’t booked it yet so the sooner you answer the sooner I can book it;) I know that if we leave right after the wedding it will be tiring but at least we have something to look forward to when we’re in the middle of the wedding. If we leave the next day I think that would be a good choice too..Should we leave a week after the wedding? That would give us a lot more time to clean up after the wedding and get everything ready for the honeymoon.
When did you leave for your honeymoon?
I need some ideas!! Thanks beforehand!;)
I know it’s lame. However, I just saw the latest Breaking Dawn movie and was swept away over how breathtakingly beautiful Casa Em Paraty, (other wise known as Isle Esme in the popular movie) is. I’m planning a wedding soon and for the honeymoon I would absolutely LOVE to know where I can go to stay at such a nice, quiet place with my future husband. Any ideas? I don’t want to have to deal with people or hotels. I want it to be just us.
Help me please! It would be much much appreciated.
Thanks so much. (:
I’m a travel agent and was having a debate with the two other people I work with.
Occasionally the in-laws will come into my office and want to set up a honeymoon for their child and soon-to-be spouse as a wedding gift. But then some of the in-laws want to go along on the cruise with the newly married couple. A few of the mother-in-laws even wanted to be on the same floor with rooms right next to each other.
Ok, I obviously can’t say this to the customers, and also because I’m supposed to be selling vacations. But I think this is a bit awkward. I couldn’t imagine that the newly married couple wants their in-laws anywhere around them during their honeymoon. This is speculation, but I would guess the newlyweds feel they don’t have a say/don’t want to offend the in-laws since they’re being generous enough to pay for the honeymoon.
One of my co-workers agrees with me but has to go along with it as well. We’re not here to talk customers out of spending money! But the other co-worker thinks this is a great idea to have the entire family go along on the honeymoon. She has even hinted that the two of us are being ungrateful.
From personal experience, I get along great with my own parents and in-laws. But weddings tend to be rather stressful. To be honest, after the wedding we just wanted to get away and I didn’t want to be anywhere near my family (particularly mom and mother-in-law). Once we got back I was no longer stressed out and was glad to be around family again.
What do you think?
My fiancee and I are getting married next summer after we graduate University in a large wedding that I will need to take a few days off beforehand to prepare for. I’m starting to look at honeymoons and am not sure whether to book one that is 1 or 2 weeks long.
Right now I am in the process of applying to a job I may or may not get as well as graduate schools so I have no idea what my employment situation will be like next summer. Do you think an employer will find 2 and 1/2 weeks too long to take off of work if I get a new job even though its my honeymoon which is a once in a lifetime event?
I may not even find a new job and stay at my current one in which it wouldnt be a big deal to take that much time off, I just have no idea where I will be next year.
What should I do? Take the 2 weeks off or stick with a 1 week vacation?
Honeymoon in Phuket, Good or a Bad Idea ?
If you have been on a honeymoon to Phuket than please suggest:
Planning to go for a honeymoon right after the wedding and looking for a mix of city life and solitude for 5 nights and 6 days. Shopping, Driving around, Clubbing, Beaches, Spa, Eating out and even getting to meet good people to chat with. I was thinking of islands at first (Maldives, Koh Samui etc) but than we would miss shopping and night life so thought of Phuket. If you give a thumbs up for Phuket than please suggest a 4-5 star Beach resort which is not too far from the city life and also few decent places to go out at night. Otherwise you can also recommend better cities in Asia for Honeymoon.. Cheers!!!
My new husband and I just got back from our honeymoon a few days ago. Naturally the next day he started calling his best friend who was also our best man, and couldn’t get a hold of him. So he called another one of our groomsmen, who revealed that our best man went to jail while we were on our honeymoon, and that he was sentenced to 6 month in some low security prison ONE MONTH BEFORE OUR WEDDING, but the judge let his serve it after our wedding. We had absolutely no idea about it and are so puzzled and confused. My husband’s feelings are also hurt, since it is his best friend, someone who he knew from the time they were babies, and 3 people around us knew what was going on, but not my husband… We understand how embarrassed he must have felt, how depressed he must be, but we can’t even go and see him because we are not on his approved visitor list 
We still don’t know all the details besides some short article that he found on line, he pretty much helped someone launder some money from the bank he worked at, because that person was blackmailing him about something stupid! Uhhh
anyways, i am not mad at him but my husband is. He’s very hurt that his best friend doesn’t even care enough to let him visit him in jail.
My honey and I are planning on getting married next summer. I’ve always loved the idea of leaving from the reception and heading straight to the airport to leave for our honeymoon. We’re hoping Hawaii or the Caribbean.
Is anyone else doing this? I just like the idea of heading straight out, plus most people say you’re too tired after the wedding anyways lol. I’d rather not just go home after our wedding and a plane ride would give us time to rest a bit. I know we could always get a hotel but that kind of seems pointless to me. Especially since we just bought a home. But we’ll already be living in it, so I don’t think it will feel as “special” just to go home.
When are you all taking your honeymoons? And where too?
My fiance and I are looking at going to Paris or Rome for the week for our honeymoon, but we are being told we shouldn’t take our baby with us. She is due July 6th and we are getting married September 17th and I don’t feel comfortable at all with the idea of leaving her with our friends for a week when she is so young and so reliant on me. I’m scared enough about becoming a mother, let alone leaving her with friends for a week whilst I go sightseeing.
I know that people think we should have pushed our wedding more forward or just got married in the registry office but he refused to push it any more forward and we did and he didn’t want to get married in the registry office as he knew it wasn’t what I wanted.
Is it ok to take our baby with us on our honeymoon or should we just cancel it for a couple of years and spend the week instead at home with our baby?
It won’t be for 1 1/2 years, but I’m starting to look around now just to get an idea where we’ll go. We don’t have much money to spend, but my dream honeymoon would be to Belize. It’s so beautiful, there’s so much there, and a treehouse (witth plumbing and electricity) sounds like a dream to me. I’m someone who wants to travel around the world, but has never even been on a plane. What better way to start our life together than my first plane trip to a rainforest/the Caribean-I know, corny, but I love the idea of it. They have everything there that I would consider to be included in the perfect honeymoon, and I want to go there soooo bad.
But we’re on a budget, and I’m afraid prices are a little high for us. We’re having a small wedding-it’s what we want, not settling-and my parents paid for at least $6,000 of my sister’s weddiing (mainly the photographer), and I’m pretty sure will do the same for our wedding.
So, first option, we can take that and have a great honeymoon (unless I’m totally ignorant about vacationing and $6,000 is not even enough to go to Belize for somewhere like 4 nights and 5 days, lol).
Second option, we can put it towards the small wedding, which will cover a LOT of the expenses, and not go to Belize for our honeymoon, instead picking somewhere less expensive and less exotic.
I WANT to go to Belize for our honeymoon, and of course my fiance and I still have to discuss it, but he seems to be leaving most of it up to me. I was just wondering what you would do. For a little background, I have a four year old daughter, am 4 1/2 months pregnant with his child, we’ll be moving in together around September, he has a good job, but I haven’t even finished college yet (I’m 27 but took some time off for some stupid reason), and I’m in the middle of writing my first book, and we really are on a tight budget. Thankfully we would want a small wedding regardless of the money we could spend, so it’ll be great for us, and we’re getting married at my parents house (they have nice property). And we live in northern New Jersey if it matters.
What should we do?! I think I’ve already figured it out, and I’m sure my fiance will agree with my reasoning once we’ve really discussed it, but I’m still curious about your opinions. Thanks in advance for any help/advice you can give:)
