Did anyone NOT go on a honeymoon? Did you regret not going?

I would do that instead of nothing especially if it fits with both of ur schedules.

Thanks again everyone - FH agreed to do the mini-moon to Maine! I am working on travel arrangements now...

I would do the minimoon if at all possible. It will be time for just the two of you to relax and decompress after your wedding. I think you'll feel so much better going back to work and school if you have even just those few days to be together.

We originally were't going to take one because we couldn't afford it, we chose to put all our money into having a better quality reception for our guests, however FH's parents surprised us with a honeymoon as a gift and I have to say, while we are just a little over a week out from the wedding, I honestly can say that I would definitely be regretting not planning some type of honeymoon.

We are also buying a house with 20% down right around our wedding so we are doing a mini moon after Xmas (couple months after our wedding) then will do another bigger trip next year. Many people are now putting off their honeymoons because they do not want to start their first year of marriage in debt. I am SO ready for a vacation after all this planning but will just have to wait until our minimoon in SW Florida over NYE.

We put our honeymoon off until 3 months after the wedding (still haven't gone). While it is nice to have that to look forward to, I will admit that we both really could have used a couple days of rest and decompression after all the stress and hard work of the wedding.

Do it! Kennebunk Maine is lovely. We just got back from our minimoon and it was great to spend a few quiet days together after the wedding chaos.

Definitely take the minimoon if you can!

I just got back from my minimoon - which wasn't even a full 24 hours. I was so depressed having to go to work the next day. I would suggest taking at least two days away if you can. For those of you thinking of a minimoon in Niagara Falls, may I suggest going about 20 minutes more north to Niagara on the Lake? It is the most magical town with horse and carriage rides, wineries, jams, boutiques, theater, good food and lots of B&B's. It may have been short, but it was so romantic!!

We're doing a longer one next year sometime and were going to go to the Outer Banks (or Ocracoke island) BUUUUUT it will probably be washed out from the high surf of the hurricane passing by early next week. So now we have no idea what we're doing, if anything at all. We have Howl-O-Scream at Busch Gardens on the 11th but that's at the end of our time off. Oh well!

We are going to take a 3-4 day mini moon while we save up for our 7 country mediterranean cruise. Not sure where we will go for the mini moon yet, but it will be somewhere in the US...maybe the grand canyon since we have never been.

We eloped out of town on a Friday and went back to work the following Tuesday. We initially decided to wait a year for a "real" honeymoon, but now we're going to wait 2 years, which will be our 10 years together. We'll save up more money and celebrate a big milestone. By then it will be more of a 2/10 yr anniversary vacation than a honeymoon, lol.

No honeymoon until 6 months after the wedding but I took a week off afterward to spend with my MOH, SIL, and other out of town guests.

From a recently married person (10.10), I will say that I DEEPLY REGRET not going on a honeymoon.

I lost my job back in May and ever since then, I had not worked. I did not hire a wedding planner and did everything myself. It was a destination wedding which made it ten times harder especially and no one spoke english so I really needed a holiday. But I couldn't afford it. BTW when I say destination wedding, I meant in the country that we are living in now (Shanghai China), so not Thailand or something...

If you are not planning a honeymoon until later, I would really advise against this. The first few days were absolutely surreal and so lovely. We were move in love than ever. 10 days later, it's not that we're less in love but that giddiness feeling is no longer there...heck we even managed to have sex twice in one week which hasn't happened in a long time!

Unfortunately when we do finally afford to go on this honeymoon, it will just be like another holiday as a couple. As we've been together for a while, we certainly do not have rabbit sex anymore and I guess it won't be the same when we go on our honeymoon because we won't be in that "honeymoon" period anymore.

If you can afford it, go, even if its just a mini-moon. I'm absolutely so sad about it and even-though my husband doesn't agree that it wont be the same, I know it won't be because that "omg we're married feeling" has pretty much gone. We're both to how we were before. Not to say that we're not in love anymore but the feeling of a wedding and having your friends around just makes things a lot more exciting.

DO IT and don't regret it like I do now. Although losing your job doesn't help.

I would absolutely do it if you can!! Even if its a few days. I think everyone needs that time to just be together and enjoy being married. My mother has a timeshare and as wedding gift is giving us a week for our honeymoon. Otherwise I was just going to go about an hour away to a peaceful pretty area in the mountains to relax! Whatever you decide to do will be amazing! Just take SOME time for yourselves

Call me crazy, but I think I'm looking forward to our honeymoon more than the actual wedding. Some well earned rest/relaxation after the storm.

I would definitely do that! A mini honeymoon will be an amazing time to spend some quality time with each other and celebrate your new marriage. Then you can save up for a longer more exotic trip later on once your schedules and finances allow.

We did not go on a honeymoon, I’m not sure it would be a honeymoon now the excitement has passed. He decided to stay at his mothers with his kids right after we married. He then became angry with me for being mad and worked through most of my vacation time from work but t for a weekend took me to point pleasant. We stayed in an ugly hotel room and his daughter laughed about how he made sure they stayed in nicer places. Yea this has really hurt like most of the things that happened surrounding this wedding of ours.

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I hope things are better now.

We won't likely be able to afford a honeymoon except maybe just a short few days of recovery after the wedding.