You'll want to avoid certain tropical spots during hurricane season, and you probably don't want to go to certain places during super touristy times either. Lucky for you we've already broken down the best honeymoon destinations by month. The ideal timeframe is six to eight months prior to your travel dates, especially if you're thinking about European honeymoon destinations that coincide with the summer travel season.
If you have your sights set on some seriously far-flung adventure destinations, you might want to look at planning your honeymoon as far as a year in advance. Some couples might opt to forgo the honeymoon and, instead, put that money toward a down payment on a house or another big purchase. Others might choose to have a mini-moon and travel somewhere local for a weekend.
As we mentioned before, taking a longer trip months after the wedding is an option. This way, you can extend the celebration. And having your honeymoon prior to the wedding is a special way to prepare for marriage. Other couples choose to package their weddings and honeymoons into one by having destination weddings , which was often a necessity for many same-sex couples before the legalization of same-sex marriage. Tailor the tradition to suit you.
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Fact checked by Cherisse Harris. Cherisse Harris is a fact-checker with a focus on lifestyle, beauty, and parenting. She's worked in research for nearly two decades. Honeymoon Alternatives. Meet the Expert Susan Waggoner is a wedding historian and author. Journalists of the early s gleefully described adventurous honeymoon trips in balloons, caravans, submarines, or scaling mountains and voyaging to the South Pole.
Fashions in honeymooning come and go like any other. Emily Brand is an author and historian specialising in the long 18th century, especially the trials and tribulations of romantic and not-so-romantic relationships in England. Her new book, The Fall of the House of Byron, is out now. So the hony moone was the period in your life following your marriage, where everything is sweet and rosy.
It also suggests that not ALL moons of married life are to be as sweet as the first. But when the initial newlywed excitement begins to fade, the realities of a not-so-plain-sailing marriage can start to dawn on you as early as a few months after the big day.
You have only just begun your journey together. You will continue to learn more about one another and be reminded of the reason you came together in the first place. If you have hit that post-honeymoon phase it never hurts to remind yourself of these 7 struggles only married couples will understand and why they are totally normal.
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