Waiting before the honeymoon?

We are waiting about three weeks to leave, between taking time off for work, staying in town for a close friend’s wedding, Custody schedules for our kids, and the kids all starting school, and a cheaper price on everything by waiting a few weeks later, that’s what decided it! I’m hoping it’s the right choice, since obviously we will both have to continue to go to work for the few weeks between wedding day and honeymoon beginning!

We are getting married in November and are waiting until the following summer to go on ours. The Caribbean is at peak season during xmas (both of our workplaces shut down from xmas to new years) Initially it was the plan to go xmas. Once I realized the same places are thousands more in December, we ditched that idea.
I like that you are considering your out of town guest. I am sure they would love it after coming to see you getting married.

I would also say that it a good idea and it makes since.

We are doing a mini moon and waitungb6 or 7 months before honeymoon. That is more to save up money

Getting married on a Saturday and will def have a "breather" day to have breakfast/brunch with family that are still in town and then pack. I couldn't imagine trying to pack and prepare for wedding all in the same week. I think flights are cheaper on Tuesday so I would like to honeymoon Tues-Sun

We can't do that. With his job it's already going to be hard to get much time off. We're staying at a hotel on our wedding night, then leaving the next morning for our 2-3 day honeymoon.

We are going on our honeymoon a little over a month after the wedding! We wanted to have a little bit of time for things to calm down and be able to spend time with our daughter since things will be so crazy.

I think it all depends on you I suffer from lupus and fibromyalgia so from all physical and emotional excitement I have to be careful not to overdo it! But my FH and I are going to sneak off the grid for 3 days to a hotel on the coast, close to where we are marrying and one rule is no phones unless emergency lol so that we can relax and also not have any pressure as well as immediately become consumed and move on to something else but enjoy the moment and rehash the wedding with one another . then probably in about six months we’re going to go on our honeymoon since he’s having to already take off over a week of work due to the fact were getting married across the country in his hometown and he doesn’t like to be away from office very long anyways.... So we are flying in about four days before the wedding and staying for about three days after that way also we’re not away from home for too long and he isn’t anxious about getting back and it allows for us to get a little caught up and still have something to look forward too not too far down the road

so depending on how you both function lol I think it is best you do what works for you both! Honeymooning, to me, needs to be enjoyed above all else and more than just a vacation... but a pure treat for you and him..... you’ll have vacations all your life so whatever you got to do to make sure you can fully enjoy it, I recommend that!

We're spacing our wedding and honeymoon out as well. We're getting married in December and going on our honeymoon next March.

We felt it was a good idea to space it out due to the holidays and winter weather in MD can be a little dicey in January and February. My FH suggested that since we're already pushing it out, why not go during his birthday week.

Our wedding was Friday and we took a road-trip style honeymoon. Our destination was only an 8 hour drive, but we decided to drive 3 hours Saturday so we'd have the majority of the day to just relax and breathe and do the remaining 5 hour drive Sunday to our main destination. This worked out perfectly for us! It helped that our overnight hotel stay on Saturday showered us with honeymoon gifts (including cans of local craft beer and bottles of wine), despite only being there one night; it made us feel even more excited that we had just gotten married the day before!

My parents took our wedding gifts back to their house, where we stopped over for a night on our way back home from the honeymoon to break the drive up, rest, and open gifts!

Our wedding is Saturday night, so we are actually leaving for our honeymoon Sunday morning. We are going to have breakfast with a few people and then we are going to hop the plane and relax. We put ppl in place to guard the card box and gifts and make sure they get back to our house. So after all the excitement of the wedding I def think that going to next day to be able to still enjoy the high of just getting married and relax is perfect.

I think 1 day of waiting is plenty. The presents will be there when you get home to open and you have the day to spend with family.

I'm unsure what to do about this too... Our wedding is a Saturday, then I'm scheduled to work for a week, then I'm scheduled to have a paid week off (I work at a private school with fixed off-dates). I don't know if I should book the honeymoon for that week off, or if I should take the immediate following week off unpaid... assuming my job even approves that. FH votes for taking the extra week off

We will be leaving for our Caribbean cruise a week and a half after our wedding. I would like to go right after the wedding but the cruise we are heading out on doesn't leave around then. Its ok I can get things to gether, i.e. passports and pack with out wedding worries as well

We are waiting three days after the wedding. Gives us enough time to be with out of town guest and ensure we are ready for the Honeymoon!

We will probubly be taking a good day or two in between as I get anxiety and would love a breather! A week would be too long for me because I would be too impatient! Haha

I had a friend leave the day after and she said it was a lot to take. Another waited a day in between and that made more sense. Waiting a week sounds like a lot to me as well. If you’re traveling far like Europe, Asia maybe is better to recover before sight seeing but if you’ll be in a island at the Caribbean I think a day or two in between is fine. I’m leaving the next day but I’m having a destination wedding so I’m going already at our honeymoon place. I’m just a drive away and a ferry drive to our location. I didn’t see the point of waiting.

Were leaving literally the next day haha wish us luck. It just makes sense for us to do it that way.

I think it might be hard to go to the real world for a week of work! We are getting married on a Saturday and leaving on Tuesday morning so we have some time to get things in order

We left for our minimoon at 5am the morning after our wedding. I’m so glad we did this. We got to enjoy time together in the just married bliss before going back to work. It was really important to me to enjoy that bliss and not immediately head back into the real world. I think that would have been a buzz kill so to speak. And, It was SO exciting to tell people we got married yesterday!
Someone mentioned opening gifts the next day. We got home from our reception and sat on the couch and opened together, and honestly it’s one of my favorite parts from
the day. We took turns opening gifts and reading the cards to one another.
It was also nice to leave all the mess and craziness behind for a few days and deal
with it when we got back. I think I would have been too exhausted and overwhelmed to deal with it all immediately after.
In the long run it’s what ever works for you and you FH, not anyone else. But I definitely vote for leaving right away. Maybe Monday if you want a day, this would especially be great if you have a lot of out of town guests. One thing I wish we did was book a little bit later of a flight and had breakfast with our bridal party before we left, some of which were from out of town so we don’t see often.