Immediate vs Delayed Honeymoon

I'm a teacher so my vacation time periods are set, and flights get crazy expensive during school vacation weeks. I also teach summer school, so we're having a delayed honeymoon. We're getting married in March and the earliest we'd take off is the second week of August. Our other option is we wait until the December school vacation.

I think of a honeymoon as a getaway where you're able to spend quality time with your person celebrating your love and life together, and that can happen whenever schedules allow for it!

I'm not burning vacation time, but we were married in April and start our honeymoon on Wednesday. I'm a teacher, and started at a new school this past year, so I wasn't requesting extra time off. It just made sense for us to wait till summer. It doesn't feel like any less of a hm. Instead, it's given us something to continue to plan for and look forward to!

We are waiting a little over 3 months. We don't feel any issue with it. If any it's another thing to look forward too soon instead of immediate.

For you it may only be 3 months later so I think you can wait.

We're going the weekend after our wedding, but that's mostly because we're getting married in September and if we didn't go then the weather would get cold and we would have to wait for the following spring, which I didn't really want to do. I don't think I would want to go just a day or two after the wedding though, too exhausting.

Because of our schedules, we don't have a choice but do to a minimoon. I have clinicals that I cannot miss every Saturday, and FH is a teacher and it's not that easy to leave for an extended period during the school year. We'll spend 3-4 nights in the keys right after the wedding and when I graduate from nursing school, we'll spend a few weeks in Europe.

We are going to go on our honeymoon next spring. FH's job will only let him take a week off at a time, and we want to use that week for our wedding (we are getting married out of state, and many of our friends are coming for several days, so we need that week to finish up last minute wedding prep and will spend several days just hanging out with our friends and family).

i'm looking forward to the delayed honeymoon. i feel so overwhelmed with wedding planning that i can't imagine also attempting to plan a week long vacation, and it will be something fun to look forward to after the excitement of wedding planning.

We are delaying our honeymoon because of hurricane season. Weddings in September and honeymoon is in February. We live in upstate New York so it'll be awesome to get away when the weathers cold.

I'm kind of like your FH. I wouldn't have liked taking a delayed HM because it wouldn't feel the same to me. However, H and I both started new jobs not long before the wedding, so if our employers hadn't been understanding, we would have done a delayed HM. Luckily, they both gave us the time off, and we left for our HM immediately after the wedding. I'm still in my six-month probationary period at work, and I haven't been able to take any PTO during it. Considering that you only have a few months with no PTO to get through, I would just have the HM after the wedding. However, yours is during the holidays, so you'll have to decide if that would make things too difficult.

We opted to take a shorter road trip right after the wedding, and are saving up (both $ and vacation time) for a trip abroad at the end of this year. in hindsight i am so glad we got out of town for a few days right after the wedding--the whole experience is overwhelming and amazing and it was good to both decompress and also just spend time together alone (we literally hardly saw each other at the wedding and over that weekend which i think is pretty common!). but i think it's a personal and lifestyle choice for every couple.

We are going right after. I think I was just anxious to have a reason to go somewhere honestly. Honestly, you have your whole life to honeymoon.

I would try to delay just by a few months. You don't want some family emergency to come

Up, Heaven forbid, and not be able to get off work

We are going right after. Leaving the Monday after our Saturday wedding. However, some things have changed and realistically it would have been better to wait until December. I'm still very excited to go right after, but it's going to complicate things.

We are doing a DW (Sanibel Island FL) so we are spending the week after where the wedding is, but we are not considering it our HM. We are doing a delayed HM/1st Anniversary trip to Italy.

If I were you (and this is some of the HR in me), I would do a delayed HM and not use up all of your PTO time.

We went on a minimoon and we're not planning a one year anniversary trip for our one year anniversary. A lot of people can't do a honeymoon right away. Do what's best for you!

We're waiting until October to go on our HM. I don't think waiting will take away from it, I think it will be exciting to plan for it and count down the days!

We are taking an immediate honeymoon. We both work in higher education so our only breaks are at the end of the year at the end of the fall semester. We are still taking leave but much less than if we were honeymoon any other time of the year.

I really wanted to go right afterwards n that is what we are doing. 5 days somewhere we normally would never get to. I hear a lot of people that wait but some do never get around to going. Do what's best for the both of you n when each of you can enjoy your time together.

We're waiting a month to avoid rushing it in before Christmas and New Years. Plus January was significantly cheaper. =)

I just started a new job so I do not have enough vacation time to take off for the honeymoon. We also want to save more so we can go all out on our cruise.

We are having a mini moon at the Gaylord resort and hotel in our area for the weekend then hope to take our cruise for our one year anniversary.

We are leaving Monday morning after our Saturday wedding. We weren't sure if we could make it work with our vacation time but I'm so glad it did! I can't wait to keep the celebration going and be able to take some time enjoying our first week as husband and wife. If you are planning a long honeymoon and want to wait I would at least try and take a few days off after if possible I wouldn't want to go right back to work personally.