#Microblog Monday 210: Honeymoon
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After reading (and seeing) Crazy Rich Asians, I am devouring every article linked to inside other articles, and found this one about crazy rich honeymoon planners. (Actually, it’s not that the honeymoon planners are crazy rich. It’s their clients. So I guess that moniker doesn’t really work.)
Anyway, $50,000 for a honeymoon! Or more. The minimum is $20,000 to use their services, and they talk about one that cost $1.8 million. FOR A HONEYMOON.
We went on a great honeymoon. We went to St. Lucia. We had good intentions to explore and learn the patois, but we ended up face-planting on the beach and sleeping or reading every day. We managed to head into a nearby town twice, catching a street fair one night, and we went on a hike (though quit early so we could go back to sleeping).
If you’re married, did you go on a honeymoon? If not, where would you want to go?
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14 comments
We went to New Zealand! But only because my in-laws gave us their frequent flyer miles specifically to come see them there, so we spent half our honeymoon with my in-laws…
Oops, never did the getting married thing. I reckon if it’s ever on the cards for us it’ll be an elopement during a holiday, with therefore an automatically attached honeymoon…
We hadn’t planned a honeymoon and then I won a travelcheque at my workplace and we decided to poolin a little bit more and we booked a weektrip to finnish Lapland. It was completely us and totally magical. And it still only cost about 4000 euro’s I think…
We went to French Polynesia – Tahiti, Moorea, Bora Bora. It was absolutely incredible, a once-in-a-lifetime kind of trip. (My husband’s mom had passed away not long before we got engaged, and we used some of the life insurance to fund the trip. His mom wanted him to see the world.)
At the time & place where I got married (smalltown Canadian Prairies, 30+ years ago), exotic destination honeymoons were not as common as they are now. Plus I could not see the point in going somewhere hot like Jamaica in the middle of July, lol. We wound up spending a week in Calgary (during Stampede! — which I suppose is exotic in some ways, lol), Banff & Jasper. I’d been twice before with my parents, but dh had never been, & I wanted to share it with him — plus I couldn’t think of a more romantic destination that we could afford (just barely)…! The Live Aid concerts were on and I remember watching the finale in a hotel room in Calgary. We stayed in cheap hotels, but we did splurge on afternoon tea at the Chateau Lake Louise, in front of a huge picture window with a view of the lake. One of my absolute favourite spots on the planet! 🙂
I am married but we didn’t participate in ANY of the events leading up to or after the wedding that have come to be culturally expected. My husband never proposed (we just talked about it). I didn’t have a bridal shower or bachelorette party (and he didn’t have a bachelor party either). We didn’t even have a wedding, just a small ceremony at my parents’ house (with only our parents there). And we didn’t go on a honeymoon. Sometimes it makes me sad we missed out on all that, but it’s over now and we can’t go back.
We went to Australia. Queensland beaches. It was my husband’s first overseas trip, and the beginning of a lifetime (we hope, we’re still going! … and at the airport as I write this) of travelling together.
We did go on a honeymoon, which was…interesting. We went on a 4 day cruise. And it had it’s high points for sure- Catalina was lovely and I’d never been. But, we got married 5 days after 9/11. Our cruise was the first to depart since 9/11. The issues involved with that? After the issues it took to get an emergency passport for my husband the first day the federal building was open again? Ugh. And then we went on an excursion in Ensenada (home of the biggest flag you’d ever hope to see. It’s actually the most memorable picture we took. LOL) Our bus was boarded by Mexican army with AK47’s. Yeah, not a good time. We stayed on the ship after that. Perhaps not exactly what we planned….
$1.8 million!?!? Where exactly did this couple go? To Mars? Now you got me wondering what a $1.8 million honeymoon looks like….
We took a 2 week trip down the West Coast, exploring wineries, beaches, redwood forests and Disneyland. There was surfing, camping, Grey’s first experience with a hot tub and rollercoaster and bowling. It was a once-in-a-lifetime trip given that other anniversaries have been spent at a single destination, checking out the area, but it was also a lot of fun and something we could afford on graduate student-level incomes.
I’ve always wanted to visit St. Lucia — how cool! We got married during a Hawaiian vacation with my parents-in-law, so we kinda did a combination planned elopement/honeymoon trip. (It cost nowhere near $20K, btw, and was only 8 days total.)
Holy crow, that is super expensive! It amazes me how much people drop on weddings in general, but 1.8 million for a honeymoon? JEEZUM! Your honeymoon sounds amazing, and perfect. I think a good honeymoon just lets you relax and spend time basking in your newlywed glory, not at all worrying about shoulds and go-sees but doing what makes you happy. My first honeymoon was at an all-inclusive resort south of Cancun in Mexico, and it was lovely and relaxing and maybe $2000, and we spent a lot of time in the pool, going to excursions, going to the beach, and eating. When I married Bryce it was in October, so we didn’t have time for a honeymoon (and were already in the thick of infertility), so we spent a night in a luxury hotel in the area where we’d received a gift certificate. Then we did our actual honeymoon in California last summer, but that was a celebration of many things so it was more expensive! 🙂
I just saw Crazy Rich Asians and loved it — so much fun! That WEDDING , insane!
When I used to hear years ago that people went to Disney on their honeymoon I thought it was ridiculous. When we were planning our honeymoon don’t you know that’s where my husband wanted to go. I had only been there once, to Epcot only, in an excursion with my father and sister made horrendous by the latter. My husband’s reasoning was that I did (and do) love childlike things so much he thought I would love it and I really did. It also made everything so easy because we got married in Florida.
We went to Key West for a week and got married in the middle of the trip. It was fun – we had a good time. We didn’t want any kind of big to-do, so it was perfect for us.
We backpacked through a couple of Mediterranean countries and it was divine. I’m not a backpacker, but it was such a fun and connective way to launch our lives together.