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Since our wedding isn’t until 2016, and beyond the engagement party that is next May we don’t have much to plan this year. We are going to be getting the engagement party stuff ready, but since it isn’t much it’s quick. We have the venue, the church we are doing the beginning of next year, we’ll be doing some research for the limo and flowers also. Beyond that and maybe some wedding dress window shopping nothing can be really done for the wedding.
Anyways, let us get to the fun part, the Honeymoon! CA & I are beach people, we love the sun, warm weather, ocean, some drinking, and great food. I’ve been searching all different areas of the Caribbean for different places for us to go, that wouldn’t break our bank. As of right now we are thinking Dominican Republic, I went there for my brothers destination wedding, and it was amazing! The water was so clear, all inclusive resort, so no money needed unless you wanted to do an excursion. That’s perfectly fine with me, they had two pools, and plenty of different stuff for couples to do.
I always dreamed of going to Hawaii for my honeymoon, but traveling to and staying at a hotel in Hawaii is extremely expensive. So, with our huge move being shortly (or not so short depending) after our wedding we can’t spending $10,000 on a honeymoon. Is it once in a life time? Not really, it could be an anniversary trip, just any kind of trip. Was I sad at first? A little bit, but realizing we wanted a relaxing honeymoon, not a “get up every morning early and do something” honeymoon, it was a bit easier to move on from Hawaii.
I am not sure if I discussed this on here yet but, CA & I are going on a cruise in March 2015, I’ve dubbed it our pre-wedding honeymoon, even though we ARE having a honeymoon. I really just wanted to be able to call our vacation something cool. Since this is my first time ever going on a cruise this would be a factor if we do a shorter cruise for a part of our honeymoon. You see our… well my idea is was to try and split up our honeymoon between two different islands. My first idea was actually Jamaica and DR, just to be different and to travel a bit but still have a relaxing honeymoon.
We are probably going to go to a travel agency to see if it is actually possible to do that without costing an extra $1000 plus to fly everywhere. A partial cruise I’ve also been looking at, maybe for 5 days, and than head to DR for another 5 days. So we have a 10 day honeymoon, but it’s not all one place where it’d be TOO long there without being bored.
As of right now we have a number that is our limit to spend on the honeymoon, just because we know it’s possible to spend a low amount, besides airfare. The airfare we are hoping can be done by points from our credit cards. A wedding is great, a honeymoon is the start of our wonderful marriage, but a house is a place to live where our love for each other can fill up and go from a house to a home.
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Ah the honeymoon discussion! We are in the same boat about trying to keep the cost low, but we are realllllly trying for Hawaii. However, we are planning on waiting about 5-6 months after the wedding to go on our honeymoon. At first I was bummed about this, but then I realized it will be fun to have something exciting to look forward to, and we can recoup (money-wise) from the wedding a little bit!
When I got married I never got a honeymoon, now Im divorced but Im hoping for something spectacular like that the next go around 🙂
Congrats girl!
We are looking at honeymoons and I am scared of the price! We want to go to Paris or Italy! Have you heard of those honeymoon registries? Yes-you would still have to pay for the airline and such but guests can purchase excursions or dinners or massages as a gift for you. So cool!
Aw that stinks, I would definitely have that at the top of your want list for next time around. Where would you want to go!? Thank you!
YES I have! I would consider that but, we are moving down south (I like in NY) so I don't want to have to pay for so much new stuff for the house. I am sure we can go at another time. OMG Italy, my boss wene there she LOVED it, she went for 3 weeks and said that was too long. She visited Rome, Florence, and Venice. Let me know how it goes! 🙂
I totally get that! We need to do it right after just because we are moving and to start a new job and take off for a honeymoon would be hard. I would love to wait just to go to Hawaii but that'd be hard 🙁 Good Luck!!!! I can't wait to see pictures.