For those that didn't honeymoon..you plan to 1 day

[chessie]

For those that didn't honeymoon..you plan to 1 day? DH and I keep saying we go on a big vacation to make up for it, bigger then our normal 5 days to make up for it maybe 7-10 days. Its 6 years this year, and really right after the wedding we went back to work since we didn't get any vacation time first 2 years.

Whether you call it a honeymoon/vacation, trip after wedding..always wanted to plan something big..Guess just jealous of some peoples trips, they took off for 3 weeks somewhere awesome.

[Kore]

We've gone on vacations since our wedding, but I never considered them to be "honeymoons."

[Susie]

We always said we were going to go to Ireland on a belated honeymoon, when we had the vacation time and the money.

We're 5.5 years in, and haven't been yet. We're planning to go in May, but with friends. I went last year with my mom. We've also taken a few international and domestic trips, some with other people and some just us.

The idea of a honeymoon is not important to me.

[vanillacourage]

We went on one for our one-year anniversary.

[Deleted]

Reading fail.

[Dusky]

We've taken vacations since, including for our anniversary, but they weren't intended to make up for our lack of a honeymoon.

[fbf2006]

I don't understand how it will be a honeymoon. A honeymoon is just a vacation taken after a wedding. It shouldn't really matter anymore that you didn't have what I guess you consider a true honeymoon. Mine was a weekend trip to Cape Cod.

[Deleted]

We didn't take a honeymoon due to our work schedules after the wedding.

We have taken trips together since then, some very nice, but we didn't consider any of them a honeymoon per say. That boat has sailed and I do regret that. At the time I didn't think it was a big deal but now I wish we had those types of memories.

Maybe we'll do a special anniversary trip to make up for it.

[rex]

We go on vacations. They aren't a "honeymoon."

[mbcdefg]

We did Sunday-Tuesday in Lake George after our wedding since MH couldn't just take off a whole week.

So when my family was planning their Ireland trip for later that summer, we planned a four-day London trip for just the two of us before we met up with them in Dublin, and sort of justified it by saying that it'd be our "big honeymoon."

But I never refer to that trip as our honeymoon. Lake George was it, London was just a nice bonus.

[HoneySpider]

We always say we'd like to do a bigger trip at some point, maybe 5 years, but it won't be a honeymoon, it will just be a nice vacation.

[noodleoo]

We did. We always wanted to go to Hawaii for our honeymoon, but could not afford it after paying for our wedding. We actively saved for it and went there for 2 weeks a little over a year after our wedding. We did consider it our honeymoon (to ourselves) but we told people it was an anniversary trip.

If I were you, I'd still plan a big trip whether it is a honeymoon or not. You don't need a reason to have a great vacation! We did our Hawaii trip in October because it was much cheaper than trying to do it in August on our actual anniversary.

[cahabalily]

Yes. We were broke when we got married (moved 1000 miles away from home the very morning after the wedding, I started my PhD program in a VHCOL area on a paltry assistantship, etc.). Also, he didn't have vacation days built up yet to take one.

We are going to the UK when I finish my doctorate, it's been our agreement/goal since we were planning the wedding. We knew that we wouldn't be able to take a honeymoon simply because of the vacation days, let alone the financial aspect. It will be almost our 4 year anniversary before we can go, but I think a month overseas will be well worth the wait.

In the meantime, we have done smaller vacations. We've rented a cabin in Vermont for a long weekend next month, etc.

[glitzy07]

Sort of, if you want to call it that.

We were hoping to be able to go to French Polynesia for our honeymoon but ended up buying a house right before our wedding with that money.

It's definitely still somewhere that I really want to go, and we've discussed planning a trip to Moorea around my 30th birthday (barring pregnancy at that time). Who knows if it will happen, but it's something good to hope for and save for!

ETA: We did take a short "mini-moon" for three nights in FL to make up for not being able to afford Moorea/Tahiti, so we at least got to do something right after the wedding.

[flygirl22]

We have not been on a vacation alone since being married. We will go to Hawaii for a friends wedding and take a week off so we will probably call that our Honeymoon.

DH's dream vacation in Bora Bora, and it will happen some day.
We are planning a tropical vaca before we TTC as well, in 2ish years.if we can swing it, we may just do Bora Bora but it is SO expensive.

[ohgillian]

At the time, we went away for maybe 4 days. We had taken a "big" vaca a few months before, so we didn't feel the need. We have also taken "big" vacations since, but they weren't honeymoon-replacement vacations. I feel like whatever we did is done, and we aren't going to make up for it.