Immediate vs Delayed Honeymoon

We're going right after the wedding. Neither of us wanted to delay, otherwise it would just fee like another vacation to us, not a honeymoon. This meant that FH has used all his vacation time through the end of the year (his also resets Jan 1), but we don't care. The honeymoon was the priority, so if he can't take off an extra day around Christmas this year, whatever.

We're waiting a few months after our wedding to go on our honeymoon. I don't see an issue with this at all. We're having a DW so we'll already be on "vacation" for that. We'd prefer to have another trip (our honeymoon) later in the year when we're really burnt out from working. Lol

We are taking two extra days for a small getaway to a B&B on the Maine coast after we are married, but our wedding is 2 hours from where we live already and we are staying a t a nice hotel near the venue for 2 nights also. We are planning on doing something bigger for our 1st anniversary. For us its partially a matter of vacation time. It's also just being so burned out from wedding decisions that we don't feel like planning anything else big.

Another teacher here. We're doing a delayed honeymoon in part for cost and in part for schedules. When first discussing our honeymoon, we kept circling back to how special Disneyworld would be for us. I finally told him that my real concern with it was that I've never been and he's been SO many times and I wanted it to be something special for both of us. The only thing he's not gotten to do is go at Christmas. So we decided to do two nights at a "fancy" hotel in a neighboring city as a minimoon (I wasn't sold on the idea at first, tbh, but now I really like it) and then do a delayed honeymoon/first christmas at Disneyworld.

I am just going to burn my vacation time for the year, I will only be without vacation time for a couple months anyways. Our holiday plans will probably be limited since my vacation time will be limited for the remainder of the year but my FH is on a shift work schedule and he is working a lot this year around the holidays so it worked out. The only reason that we probably should have waited would be because of hurricane season (we are going to Jamaica in October) BUT we decided to chance it.

To me, burning my vacation time will be worth it but I also have the ability to go negative in my PTO by 24 hours or make up hours if something unexpected does happen. So I do have a contingency if I need it for the rest of the year.

We are just taking a mini vacation after the wedding for a couple days to get away but taking our "real" honeymoon in the winter when it's freezing in MN and we want to get away somewhere warm. We didn't want to go somewhere tropical in August when it's beautiful in MN.

Sept wedding, January honeymoon. Better season for where we are going.

We are going on ours 6 months after the wedding and I very much still consider that a honeymoon. We're not in the same pto situation as you but going around thanksgiving means we have to take less days off so that's part of the reason H picked that time.

We got married end of last July and went on our honeymoon over Thanksgiving break. We did stay in a fancy hotel in a suite for two nights after the wedding, which was nice! I would've been sad if we hadn't done that. Waiting gave us time to sleep in and decompress the week after the wedding. I was so drained, and don't think I would've enjoyed a trip that week. It was nice to rest, write and mail thank you notes, put away all the wedding stuff, and handle life.

Then, we had a few months to re save for our honeymoon and relax and buy stuff and clothes for our trip. We enjoyed spending that time looking up fun things to do and cool places to eat on Maui too! We booked activities, restaurant reservations, and read blogs and it was so nice to have something else to look forward to!