Honeymoon with Covid-19

There's no point taking a test before the wedding. If you take a test, you need to quarantine after to make sure you don't re-expose yourself - even after the wedding. Rapid tests cannot detect if you've *just* been exposed.

I would look into a more local minimoon, or putting off the honeymoon for a few months until it's safer. A lot of people delay their honeymoons (we delayed ours about 5 months), and it's even more common now.

Because of all the crazy current testing regulations and not wanting to risk not being able to be tested to get back into the US, we're delaying our honeymoon until next year and just going on a minimoon to Florida.

That's why we cancelled our cruise. We were originally supposed to sail to the Bahamas 9 days after the wedding. We felt that we couldn't responsibly test and quarantine. I'm a teacher, so I'm out for summers, but The Honey wouldn't have enough time off to take twenty days of quarantine and a six day honeymoon.

Rapid tests are really only accurate once you've started exhibiting symptoms... which could be two days or fourteen days after exposure (generally, more like five). A cousin got married in January (wedding of only 30 people), and 27 tested positive. Nobody had symptoms until they had already returned from their honeymoon.

We're both "frontline workers," so I'll have my second dose of the vaccine at the end of the month. We should be fine to fly by then, so we're going to the Key West and Sanibel Island.

I think you only need the test to come back into the US, right? Are there requirements for entry where you're going?

I'd pick somewhere in the States, tbh. You can have great fun here!

We are planning on Hawaii. But to do it properly with their testing requirements, we can't go until 3 to 4 days after the wedding.

We live and are getting married in California on the central coast. For our honeymoon we're driving out to a private cabin at Big Bear Lake (also in CA). The cabin has 2 bedrooms and comes with a hot tub, grill, and a kayak for use at the lake. This particular one also gives you a bottle of wine with your stay! There are plenty of hiking trails nearby, the lake is about 3 blocks away, and Bear Mountain Ski Resort is just down the road if there's enough snow and we feel like hitting the slopes. We plan to buy food for the week on the way up, but leave some room to grab food from local places a couple of nights. For that, we literally just plan on picking up the food and bringing it back to the cabin. The cabin is an Air B&B, so all the check in stuff is done online and the cabin will have been fully sanitized and empty for 24hrs before our arrival. We're both essential workers, so being out of work for extra quarantine time isn't really a great option for us. Finances also don't like that idea. We plan to do a trip to Molokai, HI for an anniversary (maybe 5th?) and a bigger trip to Bora Bora for our 10th anniversary. Kind of figured that we'd prefer the honeymoon to be more relaxed and not really have demands on our time so we can just enjoy each other without having to worry about dinner reservations or snorkeling appointments or whatever.