Today's question: did you go on a honeymoon immediately followig your wedding or did you wait a few weeks or months. L and I took a "minimoon" of only a few days after our wedding as I was starting a new job and L had just started a new job last summer. We were planning on a "honeyjune" for this month, but have had to put that off due to a variety of concerns, including the delivery of my manuscript on June 15th.
So, if you delayed your honeymoon, why did you do it? Was it money - some couples like to save a little after spending big bucks on their weddings - or timing? If you went right away, do you look back on it and think that you should have waited? If you waited, do you think you should have gone right away?
I'm in Los Angeles for a couple of days and then in Vegas for a friend's bachelor party. Posting and QOTDs will be light this week, so please check the archives and answer old questions.
Remember to include your name and hometown. I'd really like to hear from the guys on this one since the women had their say about strip clubs, so have at it! Email me or leave your comment below.
Thanks.
Posted by Doug at June 1, 2005 09:34 AMOur guests' hotel offered us a night in a suite, since we'd been good enough to hook them up with so large a guest block... so we spent the wedding night there, without telling anyone (though a few figured it out), surprised a lot of folks by appearing at breakfast, then took off for the mountains for four or five days. That was our honeymoon; we didn't go for the elaborate cruise, beach or adventure vacation you see in the bridal magazines.
Posted by: David. (Macon GA) at June 1, 2005 12:20 PMRose and I took an unplanned-in-advance honeymoon about a week after our wedding -- we couldn't go right away because we were moving the week after the wedding, a nightmare I do not recommend to anyone. We had a very small window of time and not all that much money with which to do anything honeymoonlike, but we came up with something that turned out pretty great -- renting a car and driving to Corning, New York. (We'd recently discovered that we'd both had a longstanding desire to go the Corning Glass Museum.) We did the museum for two days in a row (it's big! and there are glass-blowing classes to take!) and checked out some nearby wineries. Our dream honeymoon would have been to spend a couple weeks in Japan, but we still plan to do that at some point.
Posted by: Francis at June 1, 2005 12:50 PMWe spent our wedding night (Saturday) at a nearby hotel, then left for our honeymoon on Monday morning. Actually, we spent Sunday night at the airport so we didn't have to wake up at 4am!
We loved leaving right away, it really helped us get away from the city and all the stress of the wedding. Of course it was still hard to come back.
Emily and Marc
Michigan
we waited for our first anniversary, around labor day weekend before going on a big trip that we called a honeymoon. there just wasn't time right after our wedding, so we put it off, saved money and did it right.
Posted by: Tony at June 1, 2005 07:26 PMWe waited about three months after our wedding to get away. We didnt go away right away because I couldn't get off work right away and my sister was having her first child (a girl) a week after our wedding and we wanted to be there for the event.
Melanie
Madison, Wi
I got engaged just after starting a new job. When I told my new boss I was getting married and that we had planned the wedding date, he got a little hysterical because we were moving our offices two weeks after my wedding. He told me if I valued my job, I would postpone my honeymoon until after the move. I discussed it with my husband-to-be and we opted to wait a month before going on our Loveboat cruise down the Mexican Riviera. As it turned out, by the time my wedding came up a year later, I was no longer working for that person. Still, it was nice to have everything unpacked and all my thank you notes completed before going away for 10 days.
Posted by: Suzy at June 3, 2005 10:59 AMMy husband and I stayed at the hotel we had our wedding at, and then left for San Franciso the next day for a long weekend, and then stayed at home and hung out for the rest of the week. It was because of work, mostly.
Posted by: Liz Coopersmith at June 7, 2005 07:12 PMhollaback girl
Posted by: hillary at June 7, 2005 09:52 PMthanks so much for letting me and someone stay at your house i cant wait!
Posted by: Zoe at June 7, 2005 09:55 PMMy husband and I went on a two-week honeymoon to Italy two days after our wedding, and I am so glad we did. One, it helped us relax from and come down off of the wedding high. Two, it really made us feel married. Spending two weeks alone together with no phone communication to the outside world made us feel like we really were husband and wife. Three, with the way things change in life, if we had postponed it, I'm afraid it would never have been done at all.
Posted by: Cris at June 8, 2005 10:08 AMI have never understood the idea of the "minimoon". It is my understanding that a honeymoon is a trip taken after a wedding to celebrate and relax. There is no rule on the length of time that the trip has to be, so even if it is only a couple of days, it is still a "honeymoon". My husband and I took our honeymoon immediately after our wedding. We spent a week on a Mexican cruise. However, if "minimoons" are the popular fad, then I say that our cruise was a "minimoon" and I want another honeymoon!
Posted by: Katie Walsh- Torrance, CA at June 13, 2005 08:35 PM