How to Have An Epic Honeymoon….Without Making Your Wallet Cry

I had always seen my honeymoon as one of the best things about getting married. Maybe it was because I had more housewares than I could shake my fist at, or because I had already bought my own home, or I had lived with D for so long already that I didn’t feel a traditional registry would fit my style. Along those same lines, I knew I wanted to make our honeymoon one of the most memorable experiences in our lives, and that meant going all out.

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I have always wanted to travel the world, see new things, experience new cultures, meet new people, and expand my mind through culture and food.

Choosing a Registry

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When we got engaged, D and I had been together for 9 years, and had lived together nearly as long. We had just bought our own house nearly a year prior, and we had more than enough clutter taking up precious space in our small starter home. That’s what life is all about, right? 🙂 

 

Anyway, when I started thinking about registries, I dragged my feet. I knew we didn’t need a lot from a traditional registry, and we knew we were going to be taking the epic honeymoon of our dreams-a trip for which we had been saving for years. At first, I thought a Honeyfund was where we were going to end up. I even started creating one for us, and was OK with it, but it still felt like something was lacking. Further, I had a hard time nailing down particular “experiences” that people could fund, and felt bad about asking for $700 plane tickets from one person/family. Every time I tried to dive in, I found it more and more difficult to choose a registry-there were just way too many choices, with way too few things to register for that I could really see us using.