A later honeymoon or sacrifice location of honeymoon

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Ok, I would LOVE to have my wedding August 24 2013. Everything would be perfect. However, I start my masters program in September anddd there are limited "good times" to honeymoon in Thailand or anywhere for that matter. So do I move the wedding date to December or January, and have my honeymoon right after. Or I can have my wedding in August and wait for the honeymoon. Do I wait or move the wedding??? Or sacrifice the honeymoon place? Please help

Summer2011Bride

I would keep the wedding in August if that date works for you and hold off on the HM. Many people put their HM off for a few months, and it'd be nice to get away during the winter (although it looks like you live in SoCal!) It would also be nice to get all the wedding planning done before Grad school (trust me, I just got my Masters and planned my wedding right in the middle of it. NO FUN!)

ujocdeelovely

I would keep your wedding date and go a few months later. Your honeymoon is well deserved after spending all that money on the wedding and it shuld be a place you really want to go. That's what me and Fh are considering since we want to go to Hawaii but we don't think we could afford it right after the wedding.

BTW your wedding date is a day after mine!

jelenybeany

H and I are taking our HM 8 months after our actual wedding and we don't feel it's that big of a deal. We did two nights at a local spa resort, and are going on a 7-10 night HM when our schedules allow. We've never travelled outside of Maine and NH together though so it'll still feel special to us.

goobersinlove

We moved our wedding date a whole year (or possibly even more) entirely for financial reasons, including the preference to 1) be able to have the wedding we want and 2) being able to take the honeymoon we want immediately after.

Obviously everyone has a different opinion.  But it was important to us to be in the immediate newly-wed "glow" when we take our honeymoon.

meganb1977

All up to you and your fiance whether the August wedding date is more important/works better for you or whether you have your heart set on leaving for your honeymoon right after your wedding and it would work better to move your wedding date.  Personally I wanted to go on the honeymoon immediately afterwards, but there are pelnty of others who waited and still had a wonderful time.

Dee331

I just got married a few months ago but couldn't take my honeymoon right away because of work. I knew that going into it but really wanted October. I will say I kinda felt bad not going anywhere right after. We became really busy right after the wedding and kind of made me feel like I wished we had gone on our honeymoon right after. However, even though I was feeling like that, I wouldn't change anything. We had a perfectly beautiful day in October and now we have the honeymoon to look forward to AND we were able to do what we wanted.

I guess my advice to you is to weigh out what is really important to you. Remember it is your wedding day, make sure you pick the time of year you will be happy with.