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Post by betty on Jun 7, 2018 5:38:44 GMT
Yes, 5 nights in Hawaii... we flew on companion passes and stayed at a very cheap hotel on O'ahu. We "splurged" and rented a $35 car with a hole in the floor board and no roof! It poured rain, of course.
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Post by azredhead on Jun 7, 2018 6:15:12 GMT
The night of the reception we stayed in a really nice B&B breakfast place. It was one of those that have different themse . I small and quaint and not over the top! But I have no recollection of what theme it was. (I don't drink) But we were up early at 4am to catch our flight to San Fran. But that was back when San Fran was still someone nice and all. We've wanted to go back. My family vacationed there a lot back then and DH had never been before we ere married. And we didn't have to worry about a car. It was all very nice. This was 26 ago.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 7, 2018 6:27:32 GMT
Not my story:
My husband worked with a gal just a bit younger than us.( maybe 24?). She was a consultant. At the end if her time here, she went home and got married. They flew back here to spend a couple of nights with us and then went to Seattle.
Fast forward about 4 months, my husband needed to get some procedures ironed and called her. Well it seems that young couple decided that they didn't need to rush back to work and took three months off to travel all around the USA. They thought that they were so important to their company that they would still have their jobs. It took a long time for them to find work.
She didn't seem to think they did anything wrong and they would do it again if they got the chance.
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Post by lauradrumm on Jun 7, 2018 7:41:40 GMT
Nope. 28 years in October. Still waiting 😜
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Post by worldwanderer75 on Jun 7, 2018 10:04:29 GMT
Went to San Diego for 5 days. It was fun but my DH and I both say we should have done a bigger trip and would if we could do it again. there are plenty of years to be responsible! (And believe me this is coming from two people who are very, very careful with money/saving/investing etc.) We will encourage this and possibly help pay for our kids honeymoons when they get married.
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Post by jenjie on Jun 7, 2018 10:47:19 GMT
Owww that’s too bad! We went to Caesar’s Pocono resorts because he wanted the champagne glass whirlpool. True story. Early March in PA. It wasn’t snowy or warm. We had a good time. I would have liked to go to the islands or someplace warm. But I was glad to be with him. When were planning our wedding I read all the bridal magazines and saw so many ads for those champagne glass hot tubs in the Poconos. I was kind of fascinated by them. But not enough to go there. So did they live up to your husband’s expectations? 😁 Hah! I shared upthread, it was a complete semicircle so we kept sliding. Plus water sloshed out onto the floor 3 or 4 stories below. We only used it once and then just for pictures. Because it’s a honeymoon/couples resort, you can schedule a photographer to come and take pics in your room. In front of the fireplace. On the stupid circular bed. The last pics were taken in the hot tub. He had us wear bathing suits and when he was done taking pics, he told us to have fun and let himself out. 😂 we lit a fake log for the fireplace and it burned for hours. Fred was afraid to go to sleep with the log burning. if I can find them later I’ll share a few pics. We’ve stayed there a few more times but I insisted on a regular bed after that! He liked to get a room with jacuzzi any time we went away alone. That one was my least favorite.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 7, 2018 10:47:30 GMT
Yes, we had a week in Paris.Stayed at a local hotel the night of the wedding and flew out on the following day.
We've been back a few times since then. It's so much easier now with the train from central London to central Paris in less than 3 hours. No long checking in, waiting for luggage etc. like you do when flying.
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Post by Spongemom Scrappants on Jun 7, 2018 10:50:08 GMT
First marriage in 1985 was followed by a one week honeymoon in the Bahamas.
Second marriage in 2011, we started the honeymoon by driving north to drop the youngest son at summer camp in the NC mountains and then back south to Tybee Island (off the coast of Savannah). For our first anniversary we did an all-inclusive in the Dominican Republic.
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Post by just PEAchy on Jun 7, 2018 11:13:39 GMT
We went to Cancun the day after our wedding for 10 days. It was fabulous.
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Post by ellen on Jun 7, 2018 11:13:40 GMT
We didn't go on our honeymoon right after we got married, but waited until we finished teaching that school year so we could go a full week. We went to Cabo San Lucas in June. Since it was the off-season we got a great deal on both our flight and hotel. The hotel also included $100 for each of us to spend at their restaurants and bars, so we had lunch and drinks at the pool every day. We went out for dinner at night. We had a great time.
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Post by birukitty on Jun 7, 2018 13:57:48 GMT
First marriage in 1985 was followed by a one week honeymoon in Virginia Beach.
Second marriage took place in Negril, Jamaica at the resort (they did it for free-was actually very nice) and we honeymooned there in 1995. Haven't been back because we didn't really like Jamaica. But we've been to St. John USVI twice which we much prefer.
Our 25th wedding anniversary is coming up in 2 years. Of all the places in the world I'd love to go to Fiji, but I think it might be too far and too expensive. May have to start planning and saving.
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Post by crazy4scraps on Jun 7, 2018 14:04:20 GMT
We took a Western Caribbean cruise a month after we were married. I don't recall why we waited, but maybe that's what was scheduled. We really enjoyed it, but haven't been on one since. We still keep in touch with two of the couples from our dinner group... 19 years later. Great memories! Now we have a timeshare to use, so I don't know if we'll ever go on another one. You can probably trade your timeshare to go on a cruise instead, our friends do that all the time. We went on a Disney Cruise with them several years ago and we are going on two different cruises with them next year!
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Post by jcmom04 on Jun 7, 2018 14:25:09 GMT
We spent a few days in San Antonio on the Riverwalk. We stayed in a junior suite and just had the best time. For our 20th we spent 12 days in HI and it was amazing!
Kristin
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Post by peano on Jun 7, 2018 14:29:18 GMT
The fact that I was in my first trimester and sick as a dog when we got married, plus the fact that when I expressed a desire to go parasailing on a potential honeymoon, my OBGYN looked at me like I had 5 heads, we opted to postpone. Which was 18 years ago. Now DS's going off to college in the fall, maybe we'll get around to it.
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Post by piebaker on Jun 7, 2018 14:52:54 GMT
First marriage: Florida/ Disney world. DH's first marriage: Disney/Daytona Beach.
This marriage: Disneyland/Anaheim Angels baseball game/San Diego.
Each husband has to endure my Disney fascination. Haha.
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Post by gar on Jun 7, 2018 15:00:44 GMT
Dream trip to the Maldives - everything a Robinson Crusoe island should be. You could walk around the island in bare feet in 20 mins, warm, turquoise waters, palm trees, white sand, reading in a hammock, dining on the beach, scuba diving with exotic sea creatures, wonderful staff, uncrowded and unspoiled...bliss.
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Post by moodyblue on Jun 7, 2018 15:23:42 GMT
We got married on a Saturday and they started digging for the house we were building on the following Tuesday, so we opted to stay home and be there (they weren't sure if the water line to our lot was there or not; if not, we would have had the expense of digging up the street to hook into it). We really did want to see all that was going on, and since I was going to be teaching summer school soon, we took the time to just sit and watch everything. The house was our priority, and we did a simple inexpensive wedding and reception because most of our money was going to the house project.
My husband had a short, couple-night honeymoon with his first wife in a nearby town that no one thinks of as a fun destination. It's been a running joke with us that he could take me there too. I've always said no to that.
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Post by iteach3rdgrade on Jun 7, 2018 17:05:30 GMT
We took a Western Caribbean cruise a month after we were married. I don't recall why we waited, but maybe that's what was scheduled. We really enjoyed it, but haven't been on one since. We still keep in touch with two of the couples from our dinner group... 19 years later. Great memories! Now we have a timeshare to use, so I don't know if we'll ever go on another one. You can probably trade your timeshare to go on a cruise instead, our friends do that all the time. We went on a Disney Cruise with them several years ago and we are going on two different cruises with them next year! I think ours is set up to do this, but I just haven't looked into it since I couldn't access it from the computer. I try not to talk to those people! LOLOL I don't know if my point value will offer much.
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Post by Peamac on Jun 7, 2018 17:13:46 GMT
A week at Disney in the brand new Caribbean Beach hotel! We got special treatment on the days we wore our "just married" tshirts.
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Post by tduby1 on Jun 7, 2018 17:57:50 GMT
We took a 15 day road trip. We left the morning after our wedding and about 45 minutes from home we hit an April Michigan snow storm and icy roads and flipped and totaled my car. The next day we set out again, in my brother's car. We drove from Michigan to Oklahoma to visit DH's dad. From there we drove to Arizona to visit my aunts, uncle and grandma. En route we witnessed a tornado (Dimmet, TX April 14, 1995) AND felt a nearby Earthquake . (The 5.7 M earthquake occurred in Marathon, Texas on April 14, 1995. -Wikipedia)
After spending a few days in Phoenix AZ and traveling to visit the Grand Canyon we headed back to OK to spend a few more days with DH's dad. We had been traveling all day and hadn't been listening to the radio but rather CDs. We had no cell phone back then. As we started getting closer and closer Oklahoma City we noticed every single exit was closed off- and we needed gas. We were getting worried and turned on the radio. It was about 8 PM on April 19 and that is how we learned of the OK City bombing. Eventually we found an open exit to get gas. When we finally rolled into FIL's, approximately 90 miles from OK City we were exhausted and went to bed.
I remember listening to the radio either that night or the next day and people were speculating this was a middle eastern terrorist attack. In horror we heard of a story of a middle eastern man being pulled from his home and beaten causing his wife who witnessed it to lose their baby.
The second morning (I believe) father in law came and told us that a man from Michigan had been arrested a few days before, in their town, and he had been responsible for the bombing. He was in a panic. We were driving a car with plates from Michigan and people were clearly out for blood and someone from Michigan had been arrested just up the road from his house. He was afraid people would think we were somehow tied to Timothy McVeigh. We packed up and left town immediately.
So I guess it was remarkable in that it was very eventful.
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Post by carhoch on Jun 7, 2018 18:13:46 GMT
We did it backwards we went on a honeymoon 4 months before the wedding We got married in Switzerland in July where the weather is perfectly lovely so we decide to go on a honeymoon in the winter and go to the beach ,we spend two wonderful week in the Seychelles Island (Indian ocean)
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Post by scrappysurfer on Jun 12, 2018 7:08:23 GMT
Fun thread!
DH and I had a dream two week honeymoon in Fiji. It was in the months following 9/11 so there were no other travelers at the resort where we stayed so it was like having our own private island with personal chefs, dive masters, assistants and tour guides. Definitely the best vacation we have ever taken.
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Post by gillyp on Jun 12, 2018 9:14:07 GMT
We had booked a room in a boarding house in Wales. We had no transport but DH's friend ran a taxi cab service so took us there. When we got to the town, I realised I did not have the address of the place we had booked, I'd left it back at home. This was WAY before mobile phones, satnav etc.etc. We drove round the town for what seemed like ages trying to jog our memories as to where we were to stay and amazingly we found it. It was one room in a dive, run by a guy who used to play the violin on the pier.
That evening we went for a walk and ended up on the beach - me in totally unsuitable clothes for a beach stroll. I could see the tide was coming in and wanted to turn back but DH insisted all was fine. We ended up getting cut off by the sea and having to climb a cliff to get to safety. I was not amused.
The rest of the trip was pretty uneventful but we ran out of money and came home penniless.
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Post by leftturnonly on Jun 12, 2018 10:47:53 GMT
We had a honeymoon.
We had a get-away not a trip so I have no clue how to answer your poll!
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Post by leftturnonly on Jun 12, 2018 11:02:05 GMT
went out with my old boyfriend.. I was not expecting that.
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Post by corinne11 on Jun 12, 2018 12:27:22 GMT
One marriage- married in Fiji - July 2 years ago and spent 3 days on a cruise, 4 days in a fancy 5 star hotel then 2 weeks at our favourite hotel down the coast - in a suite overlooking the ocean for our honeymoon. We are heading back in 5 weeks time to celebrate our 2nd anniversary - this time the same cruise for 7 days then 2 weeks at our favourite hotel. What can I say? we love Fiji and we love the familiarity of going to the same places. This will be our 5th trip so far.
Of course we eloped so we didn't have the expense of a big wedding or reception.
Corinne
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Post by bethany102399 on Jun 12, 2018 14:35:23 GMT
When we got engaged, DH worked for a now defunct airline. which meant we could fly anywhere on standby for free. We were 26 and flat broke but I desperately wanted to see Key West. He lost the airline job about 3 months before we got married so we ended up driving to Branson and staying in a b&b for a couple of days. We had no help financially from either set of parents for various reasons. I was really upset about not being able to truly get away but it wound up being a great trip. The wedding itself was non stop stress, so the ability to just get away (this was well pre cell phone and internet) and not be bothered wound up being great. Looking back I have no idea what I was thinking. How the heck would we have been able to afford to stay there with no money?
The funny part is DH assumed his blushing new bride knew how to read a map. I did not and we took the smaller, winding road to get there adding about 3 hours longer than necessary onto our trip. Tiny, 2 lane mountain roads stuck behind this car that was only going like 20mph. We both got carsick. I'd like to say I've never lived it down, but my response when he brings it up is you never asked if I knew how to read a map. We took the highway home.
We celebrate 20 years in October of 2019, and in May of 2020 I'm angling to get on a Disney cruise going to Key West in celebration.
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Post by myboysnme on Jun 12, 2018 14:37:13 GMT
First marriage I got married in Las Vegas so going there and being there for the wedding night was the honeymoon.
Second marriage we lived in Texas but flew home to Pennsylvania to get married then honeymooned the week following with a trip down to Colonial Williamsburg. About a year and a half later we ended up moving there so if I could go back I'd pick a different destination.
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Post by Jenny in TX on Jun 12, 2018 20:02:05 GMT
We left the day after our wedding for a week in the Cayman Islands. We were 22 and luckily we found 1 place that we could rent a car from.
We just celebrated our 25th anniversary last August and went to Maui for 10 days.
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Post by brina on Jun 12, 2018 20:18:09 GMT
We had an amazing honeymoon - we went to Indonesia, where we visited three islands. In Flores we did SCUBA and we hiked to Kelamutu. In Sumawesi we toured Toraja Land and went white water rafting. We finished up in Bali we were did some touring but mostly just enjoyed the resort and the beach. I have told dh I want to go back to Bali for our 25th anniversary which is three yearss away.
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