What to do after the wedding if honeymoon isn’t until later

You could organize a day-after brunch, or a brewery/winery tour, or some sort of optional event for everyone to come spend time with you before they leave.

We did a minimoon right after our wedding and planned our honeymoon for the following year. We went on a small trip within driving distance for 4 days.

Farewell brunches are becoming more popular as a way to have one final event with everyone before they leave. I love Lisa's suggestion of a winery tour as well if everyone is in town long enough!

If you aren't going on a honeymoon, I think it's still a great time to just unplug from reality for a while and enjoy being newly married. Maybe book a fancy hotel suite nearby or visit someplace and spend a few days there.

We hosted a farewell brunch for our wedding party, family, and out of town guests the next day. We left for our honeymoon a month later.

We also had a brunch the next day, and spent most of the next day with extended family and out of town guests. We took a few days off from work following our April wedding, but we didn’t have anything planned - more of a “staycation.” We will be going on our honeymoon in September. Can’t wait!

Thanks everyone! Brunch sounds really nice. That’s probably what we’ll do.

We are also not going on our honeymoon right away - in fact we're both going back to work right away (he's going literally on Monday after our Saturday wedding, I think I'm going to go back on Tuesday). We're having a mini-moon over the Christmas holiday but out actual honeymoon won't be until after our second reception back east for my family.

We're doing the whole brunch thing. My MIL is hosting it at their house (which we share a property line with) and everyone is going to be welcome. It's a very casual thing. We are spending the night at an AirBnB the night of our wedding (I'm also spending the night before there as well as using it to get hair and make up done) so that we aren't just going home like it was every other regular day. The friends and family that we have coming from out of town will all be at the brunch and then they will be leaving within the day or two after. It'll be a nice way to say goodbye to everyone and then kinda back to our regularly scheduled programming!

We're planning on hosting a brunch for our guests and then also might have some of our immediate family over at our house after that before they all go home (within reason since our house isn't very big). So that way we can spend time with our guests and then also spend time with our families the day after. We might try to do a little weekend getaway in the coming weeks after our wedding since we're not doing our honeymoon until later also!

You could do a staycation at a really nice hotel or nearby place that you haven't visited (short road trip). order room service, have some drinks, hang out by the pool etc.

You could plan a weekend trip the following weekend... that way you all have time to spend with family and friends that are in town, you have time to regroup, unwind, maybe even head into work a few days, and then head somewhere nearby and inexpensive for a couple of days to revel in your wedded bliss 🥰 you can tell all the waiters and hotel concierges that you just got married, etc.

We are hosting a pool party at our condo clubhouse the day after our wedding. Most of our guests are also from out of state, and as others have posted we want to spend as much time with them as we can. The following Tuesday we will head to Disney World (2 hour drive for us) and spend some time there and having another celebration happy hour with many friends from our Disney group that we just couldn't afford to invite to the actual day. Our "official" honeymoon will be a 9 day French Riviera & Italy cruise that June.

We're having an "open house" of sorts at our home the day after. We're going to have a bunch of different food options (pizza, hoagies, charcuterie, salads, desserts, etc) and just let people come hang out as they want. We'll have all our yard games set up, and football down in our basement bar area.