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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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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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.
Photo from 2getheras1.com
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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:
Photo of Big Pine Key from visitflorida.com
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