Destination Wedding and Honeymoon

Of course, if you’re planning a destination wedding, you will presumably already be in a vacation spot. Your family and friends will be there too, and of course, you’ll want to spend time with them. Still, the time after the wedding will be a time reserved for the two of you to spend alone, perhaps continuing your vaca- tion at the site of the wedding, perhaps traveling on to another vacation spot.

You have been on many trips before, ski trips with friends, family vacations and road trips to Aunt Margaret’s house, and no doubt you had a great time with your buddies or your brothers and sisters on those trips. But this trip has a purpose. Plan to do some fun things together, but also plan some down time, days when you sit together and stare at the fire, read the newspaper in bed together after ordering room service, or just sit on the porch of your cabin and stare out at the lake. Getting married is a big deal, and you’ll need time to come down from all the excitement. You should not make plans to hit the golf course or the hiking trail every morning...although the beach isn’t a bad idea.

“We wanted the wedding to feel like a big family vacation and since we were already in Maui, it was the perfect setting. We arranged for everyone to arrive a week before the actual wedding so we could spend time as a group and with designated families. I consider that entire week to be a pre-wedding event.”

At the end of the reception, Jennifer and Ryan took a limo back to the hotel where they met everyone outside to continue celebrating and visiting. Plan to do what feels right to you both on your honeymoon. Don’t leave your guests until you are ready, especially if they all traveled far to be at your wedding; the event will be over soon, and then your honeymoon will begin.