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Josey
Just Said Yes October 2020

Honeymooning at a later date?

Josey, on October 30, 2019 at 9:00 PM Posted in Honeymoon 0 14
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Hi! My fiancé and I are getting married next October 17. I am currently in college and will be graduating as a Special Education Teacher in May. I didn’t thoroughly know the ins and outs of vacation days/time off as a teacher when we first picked the date. There is a slight possibility that my fall break will fall the week after the wedding-but I do not want to hold my breath on that just in case it doesn’t. So, we have discussed planning to honeymoon on my spring break the following March (2021) or the summer. With me being a first time teacher- I more than likely will not have acquired that many days where I can take off right after the wedding for a honeymoon. So my questions is- suggestions? Anyone ever waited to honeymoon? Pros/cons?

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Latest activity by Gladysest, on November 1, 2019 at 7:46 PM
  • Mrs. S
    Master November 2019
    Mrs. S ·
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    Lots of people wait. I’m in my 8th year teaching and we will either go at spring or summer break or maybe not at all because it’s just so expensive. Even if you had enough sick days saved to take a vacation i wouldn’t. You’re going to get sick a lot especially your first year.
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  • Meghan
    Devoted April 2020
    Meghan ·
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    I agree with PP. my district gives 3 days of personal time off every year so you might be able to do something like that. I would save sick days as much as possible. This is my 5th year and I still get sick all the time. We will take our honeymoon during the summer when I’m off. I teach special education too so congrats on that! Super exciting!!
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  • Amie
    Savvy May 2020
    Amie ·
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    My fiancé and I are also thinking about waiting for “our” honeymoon and doing a long weekend right after with kids. It’s second marriage for both of us but neither of us had honeymoon. I think it’s pretty common though for different reasons like yours and package deals, etc.
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  • earias
    Champion December 2017
    earias ·
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    It is very common to wait to take your honeymoon. We got married in December and then took our honeymoon later in October. We did this mainly so we could save more money. We splurged on the wedding so needed time to save up. Plus, it gave us time to relax after the wedding without the stress of going somewhere right away. While it is fun to travel, it is also tiring, and after the wedding we were exhausted. It was nice to just chill after the wedding.

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  • Jasmine
    Master August 2021
    Jasmine ·
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    It's common to wait. We're going on our honeymoon 6 months after our wedding due to weather where we're going. Because of that, we'll be doing a mini moon weekend at Disneyland right after just to still have that time together afterwards.
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  • Jodie
    Expert August 2020
    Jodie ·
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    We're waiting to do our big honeymoon. I'm going to have to take a few days off before the wedding and will only be able to get off a couple more days after the wedding so that wasn't enough time to take a big trip. We are going to go camping for a little minimoon to decompress from the chaos of the wedding. Then we're planning a trip to Jamaica in like Feb or March when we want to get away from the crappy snow.

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  • M
    Legend June 2019
    Melle ·
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    I've friends who waited. It's a good idea for if you wanna save money for it and for if the timing is just better that way
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  • Tara
    VIP November 2016
    Tara ·
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    Lots of people wait to go on their honeymoon! Maybe you can go in the summer when you're certain you'll have off? Or near Christmas break? The pros I would say are you can save more money and have more time to decide exactly what you want. The cons are you won't have time to relax or revel in the fact that you're married.

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  • Kayla
    Devoted November 2020
    Kayla ·
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    FH and I will be waiting about six weeks for our honeymoon. He works at the local college and my company shuts down for about two weeks around Christmas time. So we figured we would go over that break so that way we didn't have to take off any additional time.

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  • Cher Horowitz
    Master December 2019
    Cher Horowitz ·
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    Waiting is super common! FH is a teacher and has one week left in school after the wedding. We're leaving the day after the school year is over!

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  • Caley
    Dedicated September 2021
    Caley ·
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    We're getting married next September but don't plan on taking our honeymoon until sometime in April or May 2021, as we want to go to Italy and *hopefully* the U.K. We will be able to save up more PTO and money that way. I think it's becoming more and more common to wait!

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  • Kari
    Master May 2020
    Kari ·
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    I imagine my FH and I will wait just because we are investing so much time and money into the wedding itself and right now I feel like we don't have the energy or resources to plan a honeymoon on top of that.

    I can see us taking a few days off before and after the wedding, and then maybe doing a mini-moon after, but I think throwing a giant party and then going on big vacation is just going to be too much. I'm worried I'll be super exhausted after the wedding, and would rather wait and have a really wonderful honeymoon then rush to do it right after when I'm tired and we haven't really planned it out well. My FH and I do make time for travel anyway, so it's not super important to me whether or not we have a "honeymoon" or just get to go on a wonderful vacation together that just falls at some date after our wedding. I think we need to label one of our future vacations a honeymoon though because we aren't having a registry, and for those who feel they need to give us gifts we'd rather get $$$ "towards our honeymoon" than things we don't need.

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  • Katie
    Devoted November 2020
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    We are waiting a few months. We are getting married in November and are not gonna go on a honeymoon right away just cause of the holidays.
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    Just Said Yes October 2018
    Gladysest ·
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    We waited. Got married in October and had our honeymoon in late April.

    - We let all the holidays pass first

    - Saved more money

    - We didn't want to go to France in the dead of winter (so depends on your destination)

    - Gave us more time to plan our itinerary after the wedding was over

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