Married peas, where did you go for your honeymoon?

The Maldives, otherwise known as paradise 😁 Robinson Crusoe type island, little villa on the sand, turquoise warm water, golden sands, hardly any people, no vehicles apart from bikes and the No news, no shoes philosophy. Absolute heaven.

ETA - we went back for our 10th wedding anniversary. It was our 30th last year and obviously we couldn’t travel but we’re considering going again 😊 So tempting but then again so are many places we haven’t been to yet.

We got married in 1996 in Ottawa Canada and did 4 days in Disney World and 5 days in the Bahamas. We are deciding where to go for our 25th and Bahamas is near the top of the list.

Did not have one. We married as we approached retirement age to secure pensions for each other and other financial reasons. I think the institution of marriage is archaic. Also disdain weddings, showers, honeymoons and all the other related pomp and circumstance. I do not see people getting together as an accomplishment that needs all that fanfare.

We’re coming up on our 49th anniversary next month. We drove to the Skyline Drive and Blue Ridge Parkway from New York, where I was from and Dh was stationed and headed to Nashville. We love country music and we found ourselves in the middle of Fanfare. We saw everybody!

We were in our mid-twenties and did 10 days in Aruba. We initially planned on two weeks going to San Fran then on to Hawaii. We had an apartment in the downstairs of his parent's house, they were giving us a deal on rent so we figured we could splurge on the honeymoon. However his younger sister got pregnant, DH thought by accident but she told me on purpose so DH gave her the apartment (and she still lives there) and we retooled our honeymoon plans for a cheaper option and had to race to find an apartment. It ended up working out. I loved our apartment and we were there for 7 years. My mother would say it was for the best because living downstairs from his parents would have made me crazy and she wasn't wrong.

San Francisco and we went back for our 5th anniversary

We were also young, and less than a year out of Uni, so not a lot of money. We drove from the town where the wedding was - about 100 miles west of Melbourne, Australia, to Adelaide. We had 3 or 4 days there, then another few days in the Barossa wine region.

We were young and broke, but it was DH’s grandpa’s dying wish that we should go to Hawaii for our honeymoon so his grandma offered to pay for the trip. She insisted that “All expenses are to be paid for by me. I want them to have a wonderful start to their marriage.” The problem was that his tightwad mom made the arrangements since grandma was 85 years old and in a nursing home. Money was definitely no object.

She booked the absolute cheapest accommodations she could get for every single part of the trip because she was angry that her mom never paid for a trip like that for her and FIL. We got to the airport and our seats weren’t together on the plane (which had two layovers). We had to upgrade the rental car because the economy car she booked wouldn’t hold our luggage. We got to the first hotel and it was blocks away from the beach and also blocks away from every hotel that the tours we booked picked up from, so we had to scramble every morning to get to whatever hotel the tour we were going on picked up from since we were so far off the beaten path. Our first hotel room had a giant roach in the bathroom.   

We spent time on two islands and the second hotel room was also far away from everything. We had almost no money for food after we upgraded the car and paid for tours, so we ended up eating either peanut butter sandwiches in our hotel room or McDonald’s. I was so annoyed because every morning was spent getting up really early and literally running between hotels to get to the places we needed to be and it was so stressful. It could have been amazing but instead it was pretty much meh.

I went back with my mom and sisters on a cruise in 2002 and had an amazing time. Went back again with DH in 2005 and we had an amazing time. The moral of the story is that if you are planning a trip for someone else that you personally aren’t even paying for, don’t be a douche about it.

Sandals, St. Lucia.

We went to Canada for a long weekend at a resort lake town.

no longer married. but we went to ocho rios, jamaica for our honeymoon and stayed at a sandals. booked it with the wife of friend of ex's buddy so she got us bumped up to ocean view, concierge level (top floor of the resort) and it was lovely.

i was 28 and ex was 33. it was one of the cheaper sandals so it was full of very young married couples from ohio & illinois, it seemed. mostly drunk and loud or so stoned, passed out in the lobby.

other notables were two couples in their 40s that came back to that resort every year, the one guy's name was butch and he had a mullet. they were so obnoxious, kept acting like they owned the place because they were repeat customers. ugh.

so, we stuck to ourselves for the most part.

if i got married again, i would like to go somewhere in europe, airbnb and explore. or rent a gorgeous cabin on a lake.

iluvpink - come back to toronto!! you won't believe how much it has changed!!

Married 12/31/93 - Disney World and Universal Studios! We went back to WDW for our 10 year anniversary because Animal Kingdom wasn't finished yet, so we only did AK then. We went on a Disney Cruise to the Bahamas for our 20th and a cruise to Mexico for our 25th. We're hoping some sort of European trip for our 30th, and it's the year DS graduates, so I hope we can make that happen!

Married in 1993 at the age of 23, we started our honeymoon driving from Northern Ohio to North Georgia to a resort for 5 days, then headed to Birmingham, Alabama to see family that couldn't attend our wedding for 2 days, then headed to Charlotte North Carolina for the Nascar races.
We have spend the following 28 years traveling every chance we get, taking at least 'our' week in May to head somewhere. Last big one was our 20th when we went to Paris and London, which last year was supposed to be a repeat. Hoping to go back in 2023 now

Do you book through a rental company? if so which one? DH's family refuses to look anywhere but Folly Beach and the prices for 21 rentals are sky high. I'm looking at alternatives.

We were flat broke and of course my parents were like we paid for the wedding, you're on your own. DH was working for a now defunct airline, and was let go about a month before the wedding. We wound up driving to Branson, which really is a lovely city and once you get away from the strip is a beautiful area. We stayed in a B&B by a river and after the nightmare and stress of the wedding it was very relaxing. We went back in 2020 as we needed to get out of the house for a bit and stayed in a cabin with our teens. I had forgotten how green and pretty everything is.

The original trip however will go down in our martial history as the trip where DH figured out I don't know how to read a map and have a very poor sense of direction. I've never lived it down, but at the same time I also say hey you didn't ask.

Next week we were supposed to be on a cruise to Key West which is a bucket list trip I wanted to take for the honeymoon. We booked in 2019 and cancelled in late 20. DH suggested going for our 50th birthdays which are coming up, but we need to do some Reno work on our kitchen and I suspect that will come first.