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Honeymoon

mktuitemktuite member
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Hello all! I'm sort of new to these posts, but my FI has recently joined the Marines Delayed Entry Program.  We met in college and have been dating for about 5 years now. With the DEP we know he will be here for the wedding in September but he will be going to boot camp about a month after, followed by MOS school.  Orginally we were planning on just doing a weekend wine tour in NY and not taking a big honeymoon for a year or two to save moeny. Now knowing he is leaving within a month of the wedding we are rethinking the honeymoon idea and going on one before he leaves.  We currently live together but I am moving back in with my parents while he is away to save some money so that has to be done within those couple weeks as well. 

I really was just curious as to if anyone knows if it will even be possible anytime soon if we do wait to take our honeymoon? Is there any extra benefit to waiting a year or two to take one once he's in the service? Thanks for any help and advice! 
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  • Beachy730Beachy730 member
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    edited December 2011
    We waited to take one.  H had been in for 8 years already when we get married, and we were PICS'ing soon after.  We decided it was more important for us to save his leave for when we moved so we could get settled before he get deplyoed.  We did our "honeymoon" when he took leave right after the deployment, and I loved that we were able to just kinda run away together when he came home.  We did a very non-traditional honeymoon, and went to Whistler, B.C. for snowboarding and something different.  I don't at all feel like we got cheated by not taking it right away, and wouldn't change how we did it for anything.
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  • kyrgyzstankyrgyzstan member
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    edited December 2011
    We're waiting to take one. We picked our date when we were told FI was staying in a non-deployable unit. Then he ended up in a deployable unit (YAY!) and will be leaving shortly after the wedding. We'll hopefully get to take an awesome one when he gets home.
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  • Avion22Avion22 member
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    edited December 2011
    If you can afford it, I would take one BEFORE he goes to boot camp.  Otherwise you'll just keep putting it off and it could be years before another "convenient' time.  I say that in quotes becuase on AD it often seems like there is no convenient time...
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  • LuluP82LuluP82 member
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    edited December 2011
    I say if you have the time and money, just do it now.
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  • firsttimersluckfirsttimersluck member
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    edited December 2011
    We're waiting to take ours too. We get married in Sept but he has training going on around the date and i'll be in my last quarter of college so we won't have time then... and then he deploys next spring, so we're out of options. I will say the only bad thing about waiting is that you worry you won't ever take it. that's my concern. But other than that, you can save more money for it, and get settled into married life before taking a whimiscal dream vacation together.. I feel like it works out better.
    Just don't forget to actually take it!
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  • minekellyrichminekellyrich member
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    edited December 2011
    we were in the same predict....we thought we were going to do one cruise right after the wedding as we left enough time when we defered his EAD after college to the end of july...well the cruise we wanted went way out of budget..try to the tune of 1800 each.... so i accepted we wouldnt do one, stay at a nice hotel locally before we packed up and moved out....

    well we found a cruise that was carnival the week follwoing the wedding that is 620  per person, so we jumped.  we felt if we wait with him being new and not knowing all the ropes that it might be a while before we had one...

    our other backup plan since we are moviing clear cross country from east coast to vandenberg, that we would take the travel cross country as our "honeymoon" and add an additional 40 dollars a night to what they allow us for hotel accomd. so that we could make it more of a luxury trip. we figured we would visit and take the route we wanted to make it specail----and we still will do this, but not add the extra money probably every night, just select cities.

    goodluck!
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