Immediate vs Delayed Honeymoon

We are leaving the weekend after our wedding. I did not want to leave immediately after the wedding because it's 3 hours from where we actually live, and I didn't want to be going back and forth hauling gifts and other things that will be left over. We're going to Florida for a week. We will take a BIG trip later on in the year as a Christmas present to ourselves or wait a month for an anniversary trip. I don't think it will make it any less of an HM. I looking forward to relaxing.

We're waiting until 2018 for a few reasons - 1. FH doesn't have the time built up it to take a week & 2. Money - we've been so focused on saving for the wedding we haven't saved for the honeymoon. and 3. Mom is giving us her timeshare as a gift for next year. He's taking Friday/Monday off and we'll stay at the beach for the weekend. I'm taking the Wednesday - Friday off before the wedding then the entire week after. I work for the county and get 3 weeks of PTO. I'll need the time off to de-stress :-)

We're leaving the Monday after our wedding for 7 nights. I'm getting married in my hometown in San Juan and we're just driving south to a small resort in Guanica. This is somewhat a downgrade from my original DR all inclusive resort wish list. But the headache of additional travel since we already live around Philly was not worth it for us. And now I'm excited to eat all the PR food after the wedding!

There is nothing wrong with a delayed honeymoon. If we couldn't manage the time off I'm sure we would have delayed. However, I think some pampering/fun is in order a couple of days after the wedding. Even if it's staying in a hotel for 2 nights in your city.

I can't help myself. I wouldn't call a week in the Caribbean a mini moon and then insist your 3 weeks in Europe is your real honeymoon. I mean that's awesome! I'm already brainstorming Paris 2019!! But I'm not calling that my honeymoon. I know it's none of my business what people call their vacations but I can't keep my mouth shut.

By September you are so close to January anyway. I would go right after the wedding.

We decided to wait a month or so to take ours. PTO is not an issue for us, however, as I get 20 days and FH has flex time and PTO. Ours is more of a financial decision as August tends to be a pricier month to fly out of the airports by us but we know if we wait more than a month we probably will just keep putting it off and not go to be frugal (the accounting brains' speaking).

We're going right away. I do not want to spend months planning, spend nearly a week (DW) getting ready for and having the wedding, only to go right back to work on Monday following the ceremony.

But vacation time isn't really an issue for us. My fiancé owns his company, and I'm a CPA, so as long as my billable hours are on target for the quarter, I can take off as much time as I want.

Fiancé only gets 6 days of vacation a year, and we are doing a destination wedding, so we are 4 days for that. We will do a little minimoon in Vegas and the Grand Canyon for 3 days or so and then take a week long vacation in Feb or March of 2019 to really celebrate.

I'm a teacher getting married in October and then we're going on our honeymoon next summer. I'm excited to have time to plan the honeymoon at a separate time than my wedding. We also have a little bit of time to put more money away for the honeymoon if we need to and have time to search for best flight/travel deals.

We already had 3 major trips planned for this year before we decided on our wedding date so we are not doing an immediate honeymoon. The trips we already had planned were milestone birthday trips out of the country so to save on Vacation time and money we decided to wait. Instead we are planning for something at our 1 year anniversary.

My FH decided that we are waiting till our xmas break in 2018.

Both teachers so we know the times off should be the same and both of us work the summers.

Thanks everyone for your experiences on both sides! We're leaning toward Hawaii, so we would really want to do 2 weeks there so splitting it up isn't really an option. I don't know what it is about a minimoon that he doesn't like, I think some of it is the guys at his dept telling him to go all out on the HM and he feels like he needs to *eyeroll* I think a 1-year anniversary HM sounds awesome and would give us time to save up and plan for it, I'll suggest that

I feel really bad complaining because this is the most first world problem I could have, but I want to wait until the new year so I'm not stuck without a break all year, since I would have to save all my vacation time for all of 2018. And unfortunately we can't wait until closer to the wedding to decide because he has to pick his vacation time at the end of this year for the next calendar year.

Team delayed honeymoon! We didn't even plan our honeymoon until after we got married since it was just too much for me. We took the Monday after the wedding off, but we were back to work on Tuesday. We needed a bit of normalcy for a while! Our delayed honeymoon was no less special than I think it would've been. We got discounts, congratulations, and upgrades just live we would've right after, but with the added benefit of no wedding stress right before! We were also able to get our wedding checks cashed and actually use it to get a nicer room for one of the islands where we stayed

I'm going directly after mine because my wedding is scheduled around my Honeymoon, also I don't want to lose that walking on air feeling after the wedding

Since you're getting married in September, I would go on the honeymoon! Its only a few months until January when the days reset. Since your vacation days don't rollover anyway, I'm assuming you burn them each year anyway -- or at least, you should be!!

We are taking a delayed honeymoon and I couldn't be happier about it. I'm a professor so I have set semester breaks so it made sense to wait until I have time off. Even if that weren't the case, I'd prefer a delayed honeymoon. Planning the wedding is enough—I don't want to plan a trip right now, too. I also don't believe in crowding all the good things in life into a short period. For instance, I'd rather take several 2-week trips to Europe than backpack across it to avoid sensory overload and beautiful-things burnout (I speak from experience). Why not do one thing—get married—and then have something else to look forward to?

Some of this perspective is also because of how I like to travel. I get frustrated with traveling long distances to relax. I prefer cultural exploring and really learning about a place. I think this is because I grew up in San Diego and I've never been able to wrap my mind around traveling farther than the closest beach to relax, haha. Wedding planning has been a lot of work and excitement and I will need quiet time to process all of it. I'll be overstimulated by the wedding and wouldn't appreciate taking a trip that involved more stimulation. We are driving to a for a minimoon and will lie by the pool, relax, and drink cocktails.

We are doing ours next year. Now that the family is all gone, we are doing a weekend getaway "HM". If I was you, I would wait. Do something local and dont burn all the vacation time

We are leaving the Tuesday after our Sunday wedding. I want to still be on wedding high when we go on our honeymoon. lol

We are waiting until end of May 2018 to take our honeymoon. My FH works in acedamia (university) and I work for a G-League Basketball team who is in season from Nov-April. Which limits our vacation periods even more. So we are waiting until we can go for the 2.5 weeks that we want and also gives us time to decompress and something to look forward too! I do not think that waiting will take away from the special vakay it will be!

We're waiting 6 weeks mainly so we can do a combo honeymoon/my milestone birthday trip.

We have to wait.. we are going to Jamaica January 6-13th. I am in school and can't miss any hours or clinical time.

It gives us something to look forward to after the wedding is said and done!

Is anyone else resuming their normal life pretty quickly after? We get married Saturday... I have clinical Monday most likely (NP program) little sad but what can I do