Going away for a honeymoon after getting married is a tradition that dates back hundreds of years. Today, a honeymoon is traditionally taken to somewhere exotic and maybe a little luxurious – or at the very least kind of far away from home and all the family you’ve been entertaining while they were in town for your wedding.
When thinking about our own post-wedding honeymoon, Elliot (my now-husband) and I knew that we wanted to go somewhere epic. I wanted to take him to New Zealand, my favorite country and a place he’d never been.
But I wanted to go in New Zealand’s summer/autumn months, which didn’t really line up with our October wedding (October is early spring in NZ). So we decided to postpone our “big” honeymoon to March and go on a…