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A timeline can help you to plan your honeymoon getaway. As with any
major project, planning, organizing and scheduling a honeymoon will be
easier and less stressful if you break it down into manageable parts and
allow time to plan for your post-wedding vacation.
While it's certainly possible to accomplish everything below in less
time — some couples can pull off a last-minute honeymoon in a week —
following this timeline will minimize problems and disappointment on a
more well-planned honeymoon.
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Step 1
Sit down with your spouse-to-be and make a list of things that
are essential (tropical setting, surfing) and what you can live
without (beachfront condo). Discuss whether you'll take off for
the honeymoon immediately following the wedding or whether to
postpone it a few days, weeks or longer.
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Step 2
Surf the Web and scan travel magazines for destination ideas.
3.
Agree on a honeymoon that suits both of your personalities.
Hedonistic hammock-dozers and lovers of la dolce vita will swoon
for a beach resort in the Caribbean, Hawaii, Fiji or Tahiti.
Exotic dreamers who love to scuba dive and snorkel will flip for
the Seychelles and Palau. Fun-in-the-sun personalities will be
drawn to resorts, where you can go from a pool to the golf course
to a reggae-blaring beach bar to the spa and back to the pool
again. Or fly to a cosmopolitan European city that has a great
restaurant and theater scene. If a sprig of forsythia, wooded
strolls and a vintage bottle of wine stirs your souls, a country
inn in New England or Napa Valley has newlywed written all over
it.
4.
Step 4
Talk about how you'll pay for the honeymoon and, if it's necessary
to save up for it, how you'll go about that (see 228 Design a
Savings Plan). Check out honeymoon registry sites such as
HoneyLuna.com for more ideas and help.
5.
Step 5
Pick a package. A travel agent will be wired into the latest and
greatest land, air and car packages, which cost less than booking
accommodations, flights and car rental separately. A typical
Hawaiian or Caribbean honeymoon package might include a cocktail
greeting, a champagne breakfast, a dinner at the resort, and
complimentary golf cart and greens fees, all for one price.
6.
Step 6
See 405 Plan a Trip and put your official documents in order,
including passports or visas. Purchase travel insurance, if you're
not already covered by your credit card or insurance. If you are
going abroad, exchange a few days' worth of currency before you
leave. If you're going off the beaten path, make sure your
vaccinations are up to date (see 431 Travel Abroad and 441 Get
Immunizations for Traveling).
7.
Step 7
Pack for the honeymoon well before the wedding. There's plenty on
your plate already. See 419 Pack for a Trip and 417 Prepare a
Vacation Countdown Checklist.
8.
Step 8
Make arrangements for transportation to and from the airport and
to have your home and pets cared for in your absence.
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If you need new luggage and travel essentials, add these items to
your bridal registry.
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Enlist the services of a travel agent. A good agent will spend
time with you to find out your preferences and advise you
accordingly.
*
Now is the time to use those miles for upgrades to first class.
*
Many couples take their honeymoon months or even a year following
the wedding for various reasons--they may have just started a new
job, or they may be in school and have to wait until the semester
is out.
*
Even the most expensive and luxurious hotel room won't be worth
much if you have a view of a parking lot or garbage dumpsters.
Yes, you'll have to pay more for a room with a view, but consider
it money well spent.
*
If the bride is taking her husband's name and uses her new name on
the airline tickets, take the marriage license along for proof.
You don't want to risk being turned down at the airport for having
a different name on your driver's license.
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* Make photocopies of passports, airline tickets, travelers' checks
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* Suspend newspaper subscriptions
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