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How do couples pay for their honeymoons?

We are a little strapped for money. How do people pay for their honeymoons usually?

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1. A lot of times the parents of the wedding couple pay for it. We also got a lot of cash as wedding gifts. j
2. well if you're parents aren't chipping in how about you post pon the honeymoon until u have enough money or just stay local.
3. My husband paid for ours; however, if you can postpone planning where you want to go, you could use some of your gift money. If you are strapped, though, using a lot of it is not a great idea. The money could be better used for things you will need to buy for a home, etc. An expensive trip can come along later. Happy wedding!
4. They work. They save. Work and save. When strapped for money, one downsizes the plans. Instead of the Caribbean cruise, one looks for options closer to home. Save the cruise (or whatever your plans were) for an anniversary later. I suggest looking at bed and breakfast inns in your state. Many B&B's offer romance packages. Why not check it out? Even a weekend away can be fun. http://www.bbonline.com/ Also . . . I have known couples on a budget who spent the wedding night in the very best local hotel . . . just that one night. Then they saved up their money, taking a big journey on the one-year anniversary. Would something like that work for you?
5. Sometimes they save their money. Sometimes with the cash that they're given as wedding presents ( I wouldn't count on that though) Sometimes they get away somewhere for only a few days instead of say a week or two. My best advice is to save some money and don't go overboard on the wedding and reception. keep it simple.
6. we used out tax refunds.
7. We are considering having our wedding this year and due to lack of vacation time we plan on having our honeymoon early next year. This also goes with being able to go somewhere warm in the middle of winter!!! Yay! So I say, do what you want. If you can't afford it right now, wait until after the wedding and put the money you receive from that towards it. You could also wait until after you get your taxes and use that. I know a friend of mine put their honeymoon on a registry of sorts that people could contribute that way. I don't remember how she did that but that's an idea also.
8. You do what you can afford. But -also- there are websites now where you can register for honeymoon gifts. So, you want to choose somewhere you can afford to go - maybe somewhere romantic but local - and then research what to do in the area and how much things cost. You can register for the hotel cost per night, for breakfast in bed, etc. - get as creative as you want to be. There is not guarantee anyone will buy you these things are gifts, but I used one of these sites, and I found that a lot of my guests bought us honeymoon gifts. It made the honeymoon more special, and the guests loved giving us something they knew we could really use and they loved being involved in making our honeymoon special for us.
9. we paid for it using the money we got as gifts from the wedding - it paid for the honeymoon 100%
10. When I got married the first time around (at 21) we saved and scrimped and scraped for a year to amass the money we needed for our package deal at Walt Disney World in Orlando. We had a long engagement (over 2 years, so that I could get my degree) so after he graduated from college he socked away all the money he could into a wedding fund account. Some went to the wedding expenses, but my parents ended up paying for most of it so he used the rest to pay for the honeymoon. We ended up not having a lot left over after that, so when a weather disaster completely ruined our dining budget we didn't eat real well on the trip, but it was still fun.
11. Work....save....that's it! Use the money that you will be (hopefully) getting from the wedding. Look for an inexpensive honeymoon -- a few nights at a nice hotel is one idea.
12. Generally they pay for them with money...They save, work extra, beg and borrow. There are also credit cards as well. However you don't need to go anywhere expensive, you can go somewhere close to you (drive there) that is beautiful, maybe you have never been there before. You might go camping which is rather inexpensive. You don;t need an international 5 star luxury honeymoon. Save as much as you can and get creative with your destinations. Alternatively you could have a honeymoon registry. Also remember that some people will give you money as a gift at the wedding.
13. They either go somewhere close by, save up or use wedding gifts/money to pay for it or use a credit card. Or someone pays as a wedding gift.
14. That's usually the grooms responsibility.
15. My fiance' and I are much the same, so we're honeymooning at the inn where we're having the ceremony, and will holiday in Italy the next year for our first anniversary. Save for a first anniversary trip and honeymoon locally at an inn or stay in a neighboring city.
16. My fiance and I are going to use the rewards points from my credit card to pay for the honeymoon. Our wedding is in September 2009, so we plan on putting every bill we can on the credit card, especially wedding expenses, and then we will cash in the points about a month before the wedding.