With just over a month to go, I finally booked our honeymoon! Long ago, we talked about what we wanted to do and settled on enjoying some outdoor activities, pampering, and great food in Mendocino, California.
We even set up a honeymoon registry chock full of all the things we wanted to do after some preliminary research, such as a sea kayaking tour, side-by-side couple’s massage, and hike in Van Damm State Park followed by a picnic lunch. However, it was not until this week that I finally made reservations.
After much research on the internet, at sites like Mendocino.com, Mendocino-honeymoon.com, CaliforniaTravelDream.com and TripAdvisor.com, we will be staying at the Little River Inn just 2 miles outside of Mendocino proper, in a room with a peaceful ocean view and lots of privacy.
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After our wedding reception ended, Magnolia Dude and I head over to Hotel Charleston, for a very romantic wedding night…. we were both exhausted and could not wait to start our honeymoon next day.
Our honeymoon was a present from my brother and his wife and we will forever be grateful, it was the best present we had ever received in our lives. With the help of my mom they had found a hotel on a remote private island in Cartagena, called Isla Palma.
At 11:30am we went to the port and got on a speed boat that went over 60 miles per hour for 2 hours, in the middle of the ocean, until we arrived to this very pretty island, welcomed by singing and dancing hotel crew.
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When choosing a place to honeymoon, the dude and I did quite a bit of research. First we went over places that we would like to go that neither one of us had been to. We felt that if one of us knew more about our destination than the other, it might be a little boring for the one who has been there before. Having all new experiences was top on our list.
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Lotus dude and I had a lot of discussion about where we should go for our honeymoon. But given the number of vacation days we would have available to us after the wedding, an extended vacation was not going to be possible for us. Therefore, we’ve decided to go for a “mini-moon.” We’ll take a small vacation after the wedding just to get away and have some time to ourselves to savor our first week as a married couple. But it won’t involve an exotic locale.
As we would only have five or six nights to get away after the wedding, it doesn’t make sense for us to go somewhere that will involve a long flight as that will just eat into our limited vacation time. We briefly considered a jaunt to somewhere in the Caribbean, but we decided against it once we realized it would be hurricane season in September.
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Sunflower Dude and I booked our honeymoon today! We had been kicking around ideas, and were most enamored with spending some relaxing time in Quebec City, Canada. We love the European charm and romance that the city provides, and it’s only a 5 hour drive from our wedding location. We considered going somewhere further and more exotic, however, since I’m stressing enough about the wedding, I wanted to have an easy relaxing honeymoon. Also, saving a bit of money on this trip will still allow us to go on our yearly January trip to Mexico! We booked our honeymoon at the beautiful and majestic Fairmont le Chateau Frontenac.
 Fairmont Chateau Frontenac I jumped at the chance today to book when I heard news of this amazing sale for Fairmont Hotels!
If you’re considering a Fairmont destination for your honeymoon, do it before April 20th! This allowed us to save about 50% on our hotel stay! So I have already booked us a couples massage in the spa 
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I am a AAA member, and one of the perks of membership is receiving Via, a bi-monthly travel magazine. Honestly, I have chucked the magazine into recycling every time I have gotten it… until today. It caught my attention this time around because I saw “Mendocino Getaway” on the front cover and beautiful Mendocino, CA is where we are planning to go for our honeymoon.
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Honeysuckle Dude and I decided not to go on a honeymoon immediately after the wedding mostly due to scheduling. We’re both teachers and so taking off in the middle of a semester was not going to fly.
 Photo by Liz Duren Postponing the honeymoon until a school break really didn’t come as a disappointment as we found lots of benefits in delaying the honeymoon, such as:
- less stress- Planning the wedding is stressful enough. I’m glad I didn’t have to add planning an itinerary for the honeymoon as I was busy with all of those last minute details. We also didn’t have to worry about packing everything for the honeymoon and make travel arrangements.
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We booked our Honeymoon this week. It’s exciting and scary all at once. It’s super exciting that we’ve finally decided on a location (2, actually), and made reservations and travel arrangements. It’s one big thing to cross of our list.
 Photo of Frenchman's Reef from marriott.com However, it’s scary in that it all happened pretty fast. I am a big planner, and I didn’t really feel I had the time to truly weigh our options in terms of cost, activities, etc. I wonder – did we get a good deal? How much will food and activities run us? Will we need to rent a car? Are there enough things for us to do? Did we choose the right hotels? Did we choose the right islands? Is this going to break our budget? But, maybe I’m just being paranoid.
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When picking a date for our wedding, we focused mainly on the weather conditions at the location of our ceremony and reception. However, when it came down to deciding on where we wanted to go for our honeymoon, we realized one of our very favorite places to visit didn’t have the ideal weather during the same time. We absolutely LOVE the Caribbeans, but we’re getting married in the fall and as most of you know, that means hurricane season.
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When Plumeria Dude and I first started talking about a honeymoon, we figured there were a number of options available to us that were relatively convenient to Islamorada:
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