Fianc! and I need £3k for honeymoon...

koloko

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heathcote123

Fair play to you, it's your money - but I've never understood this huge expensive wedding thing.

Woudln't it be a better idea to use the 25k as a deposit on a house, have a cheapy wedding & get !!!!ed with your mates down the local?

koloko wrote: »

Just to add a different perspective

I'm getting married on Mar 9th next year. I plan to spend about £5k for our honeymoon. We will have saved enough money for the wedding (£20k), but will have saved nothing for the honeymoon.

This is a once in a lifetime holiday. We've saved all our annual leave from two years and will be taking 6 weeks off to backpack around South America.

We have a combined income of £65k and I plan to pay off the £5k debt in the 5 months after the wedding, @ a repayment plan of £1k a month. It will be paid off by August and we won't be having any more holidays or treats during next years summer. Perhaps if £5k was enough for a house deposit I might change my mind, but just now it's £20k+, not 5.

foxymum1977_2

we married 12 years ago and never had a honeymoon not even 1 night stay at a local hotel! we were doing the weeks food shop the next day :-( we simply couldnt afford it,

heathcote123

foxymum1977 wrote: »

we married 12 years ago and never had a honeymoon not even 1 night stay at a local hotel! we were doing the weeks food shop the next day :-( we simply couldnt afford it,

MSE'rs will approve of that. Did you whip yourself with a branch aferwards as well

soothyerboots

Not a good idea.

How about saving, pay off your debts, then treat yourself with money you've worked hard to save for a proper honeymoon.

You'll enjoy it more - knowing your sweat and tears went into treating yourself to that honeymoon, and knowing you are not going back home to a mountain of debt.

It'll be worth it in the long run.

Blobby8_2

Why on earth does anyone go on an expensive honeymoon to somewhere hot ?
We had a week in Bournemouth, and with the amount of friction it was far too hot.
We may as well been in the Sc unthorpe travelodge.

Peelerfart

I'm more interested in the branch whipping, sounds like a cheap hobby to me.

donnap83

heathcote123 wrote: »

Fair play to you, it's your money - but I've never understood this huge expensive wedding thing.

Woudln't it be a better idea to use the 25k as a deposit on a house, have a cheapy wedding & get !!!!ed with your mates down the local?

Our wedding is probably costing around £6,000 in total, although my OH's parents are giving us half that, which is coming from is inheritance.

We're planning to go to Thailand for the honeymoon, so have budgeted around £3000 for this, which we will have saved.

flyingguy

I think the concept of a honeymoon has been created by travel agents etc! It's a holiday for a couple, I know people who went backpacking for their honeymoon, I guess it's down to what you enjoy. But if it were me, a holiday isn't worth getting into debt over. Me and the OH are going to Spain next monday, rented an apartment in a lovely town for £200, flights £120 car hire £80. We'll be buying food at the supermarket and spending the days at the beach. £3k??? I could go away for a month and still have some change! :j

donnap83

flyingguy wrote: »

I think the concept of a honeymoon has been created by travel agents etc! It's a holiday for a couple, I know people who went backpacking for their honeymoon, I guess it's down to what you enjoy. But if it were me, a holiday isn't worth getting into debt over. Me and the OH are going to Spain next monday, rented an apartment in a lovely town for £200, flights £120 car hire £80. We'll be buying food at the supermarket and spending the days at the beach. £3k??? I could go away for a month and still have some change! :j

Thing is, we see it as our last real holiday, as we plan to start a family after the wedding. So we want to make the most of it. £3000 covers, for the most part, spending money as well. We're booking it ourselves, rather than through an agent so will save over £2000.