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What is the purpose of honeymoons?

Does the honeymoon ritual mean something different now that cohabitation and sexual relationships before marriage are increasingly common? Assumptions -Many people no longer wait until the wedding night to “consummate” the marriage. -Cohabitation before marriage increases a couples probability of divorce. This is my research question (preliminary) for a big project. I have some ideas I'm throwing around but I was hoping to get alternative points of view. Thoughts?

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1. it's a nice holiday
2. There is no real purpose. its just to know each other better
3. People celebrate honeymoons to cap off having a wedding. It's a great way for the new couple to spend some quiet time alone together for a little while before having to go back to the real life of friends, family and work.
4. It's a tradition that hasn't been broken yet, but, like marriage, it has changed. Modern marriages are much more for love and to celebrate and declare a relationship than to reproduce and have a family and follow Christian bible rules. As for the honeymoon, some people believe it's a positive way to start off the marriage. A nice trip, a few days to relax and enjoy each other, rather than just a time to awkwardly lose virginities. I think it's more about spending special time together than having sex. As society has progressed, we've started to value feelings and deeper emotional connections, rather than something physical and biblical and concrete like virginity, in relationships. Most of us no longer believe that an intact hymen makes or breaks a relationship. Most of us believe that a deeper sharing and a deeper gift to their potential spouse is emotional and mental "vulnerability," kind of like losing virginity used to be considered the really vulnerable "gift" that spouses would give to each other. Now it's something different. The honeymoon will remain, but it will continue to change as the values of marriage change.
5. It's just part of a culture. Its also part of the weeding tradition, so the wedding would be kind of incomplete without it.
6. I think it will be pretty hard to make the connection between pre-marital cohabitation and an increase in divorce rates. Both cohabitation and divorce have risen but I see it as being a result of what has become acceptable to western society. Now, without doing any research, I'd find it hard to directly correlate the two without considering a whole host of other factors including, but not limited to, the "religious recession" of the western world, the modification of gender roles within marriage over the last 40 years, the advent of technology in the "dating game". Now if you could do a study on the short and long term effect of meeting someone online that would be an interesting read and the foundation of a solid thesis paper. Your first assumption will be a tad easier to prove. I don't think much is need to say why. I think as far as how society views the honeymoon you'll find that it still means a man and woman's first trip as a married couple. I mean you still do consummate the marriage even though its not your first time on the bike. Now the historic and original purpose of a honeymoon is traced back to 19th C. England and a bridal tour where by the bride and groom would travel to visit relatives or friends who could not attend the wedding. The modern Honeymoon is more a result of mass tourism than anything. In a few other languages the term "honeymoon" is translated directly into "honey month" which refers back to a gift of enough mead for a month to ensure prosperity and fertility. I don't know if I contradicted myself or even helped but maybe it offered you some ideas.
7. id say just to chill out and relax after the big day its bound to be exhausting what with all the planning, buying dresses/suits, wrighting your vows and just the general excitement in the days leading up to it. Aww i hope i get married someday :) If i do, Id like to go to Paris for a honey moon!
8. Not all cultures had the concept of a "honey moon" for one, and second, it is actually, believe it or not, a British idea, specifically from the Victorian era. The idea came from the upper class, and all it was, was a "nice vacation" before marriage responsibilities. It never had any religious significance of any kind, it was not commonly practiced anywhere in the world, some Brit victorian era snob b*tch simply cooked it up and it has been tradition the world over ever since.