What is the latest after a wedding.....

Meadows

74jax wrote: »

You can still call it a honeymoon?
Is it whenever you have your first holiday after the wedding, or is there a timeframe?

Don't know as still waiting for mine 36 years in December

We got married a week before Christmas (exactly) had two nights in a local hotel just down the road, spent Christmas with families then went to live in Germany on the 28th December.
Hubby says I will take you to Paris for a honeymoon later, we never got there and our first holiday was touring France, Switzerland, Austria & Germany in the Autumn the following year which we did not class as a honeymoon.
Although we have had some wonderful holiday over the years we still never got that Honeymoon.

Brighton_belle

Personally, I am calling every overnight excurion away until we total 14 nights our honeymoon:D.
1st anniversay is this month:rotfl:, so that was one night of the wedding a year ago, one last October, 4 in May....so that's another 8 nights to go. Could stretch for another 2 years:D.

Nothing to do with hotels or freebies, just for ourselves.

stir_crazy

Thanks Picklepick, its through First Choice, we booked it online, I think I'll just leave it and mention it when we get there.

Idiophreak

I don't really think when it is matters that much - it's whether *you* consider it your honeymoon or not that's important.

Personally, I don't buy that it's your next holiday. A honeymoon, by definition, is a once in a lifetime holiday...so it should be something special. So if, for instance, I'd booked a month in Oz for later in the year, that would still very much be my honeymoon - if I went for a week in devon in the meantime with family (or alone, for that matter), I wouldn't consider that my honeymoon. I can also understand people who have mini-moons and honeymoons. I know a few people who've done cruises for their honeymoons and have had to have a mini-moon between the wedding and the flight dates.

Personally, I always wanted my honeymoon right after the wedding and that's what I did. It's all priorities. Ours went something like this:
1) Wedding date.
2) Honeymoon after the wedding.
3) Honeymoon location.

So, it was better for us to have a summer wedding then choose a location we could go straight off to than to find our ideal place and have the wedding and/or honeymoon to match up with the weather at our destination. Of course, dw being a teacher more or less made the decision for us, anyway - only having one holiday long enough for a honeymoon in the year...

74jax

Idiophreak wrote: »

I don't really think when it is matters that much - it's whether *you* consider it your honeymoon or not that's important.

Personally, I don't buy that it's your next holiday. A honeymoon, by definition, is a once in a lifetime holiday...so it should be something special.

if I went for a week in devon in the meantime with family (or alone, for that matter), .

Yep I think you're right, its how I feel about calling something 7 months later a 'honeymoon' and for one reason or another I wouldn't call it one - but that's just me.

I'm not sure about the once in a lifetime holiday either, but again that's just my thinking.

And if we did have a week in Devon or elsewhere then I would consider that my honeymoon as its the holiday after the wedding.

I think I've answered my question thank you all, I got there in the end.