How much is too much?

jnic0319 · July 2010

We wanted to do Europe, Israel and Egypt for 2 weeks...everything the way we wanted would have been 12k. We can't afford it now and are paying about 4k for ours, but plan to do it before we have kids. I think you should do what you can afford, you only get one honeymoon make the most of it.

AmoroAgain · July 2010

2 weeks each, or hit all of that in 2 weeks? Cauuuuuusssee.... that would have been insane.

Goldlie11 · July 2010

I don't have a problem with honeymoon registries in general. Still, I don't think it makes sense to plan a honeymoon you can't afford on your own. What if the OP only receives $2,000? Will she and her FI be able to come up with the remaining 8K?

Lots of people mentioned that many guests attended their wedding and didn't give a gift of any kind. I wouldn't take that kind of gamble. I won't plan our honeymoon until we have all of the money in the bank. If that means waiting, then that's what we'll do.

srkropf · July 2010

I don't know-- it will be however much we can save-- i've got 3K in student loans that i'm taking for our honeymoon, but I don't know when it will happen because my FI is in grad school and it goes over the summer-- so we may wait and go to Italy/Greece after his PhD-- who knows....

jakstr0808 · July 2010

Yeah that's weird that they would plan a honeymoon that they can't afford until people give them money as gifts.

My honeymoon is probably going to be between $8-10,000, but FI parents are giving us the money as our wedding gift. We're going to NZ for two weeks, so because it's new zealand the flight alone is very expensive (and long!). We've always wanted to go to NZ and figured if not now for the honeymoon then when are we really ever going to want to spend this money on a trip? We originally wanted to go on this trip so we planned it to see how much it was. We figured it was too expensive so we were just going to plan something else when his parents said they would pay for it. Only downside....sometimes I'm doing a countdown to NZ instead of wedding, i'm so freakin' excited (but part of it is that we're going as a married couple too!).

Anyway, I think it's fine to splurge on a honeymoon, but I definitely would not have registered for the NZ trip had we been unable to afford it (and without the generosity offered by FI parents).

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