Top 5 Tips for Planning a Honeymoon
By convention this is the man’s job, so here are our top tips for planning the perfect honeymoon:
1. Think about the time of year you’ll be travelling. Tropical islands are popular honeymoon destinations, but remember that virtually any location in the tropics has times of the year when the weather is terrible. Torrential rain and hurricanes can put a real dampener on that holiday of a lifetime, so check before you book.
2. Give yourself time to relax. Allow a day or two between the wedding day and leaving for your honeymoon. Also, try not to cram too much in when you’re there. Weddings can be exhausting, and by the time your honeymoon comes round you’ll be grateful for a few days’ rest.
3. Book early. There’s a hundred and one jobs involved in planning a wedding, but there’s no reason not to get this one sorted out up to a year beforehand. That way you can concentrate on all the other little jobs your fiancée will be giving you nearer the wedding day (and trust us, she will).
4. Don’t book it in her married name. You may think you’re one step ahead by booking the honeymoon in your wife’s new surname, but the standard advice is for the travel arrangements to be made in the bride’s maiden name. This is because getting passports and visas issued in your wife’s married name either before the wedding or in the gap between wedding and honeymoon is usually very difficult.
5. Try to get an upgrade. Do we really have to remind you? If you’re not a frequent flyer then you probably won’t get an upgrade for your flights, but a quick email to your hotel before setting out will do no harm, and might even get you a better room or a free bottle of fizz on arrival.
Thanks to Ben Parker, a first time guest blogger for the GroomsAdvice blog. Ben is the editor of GroomPower.com, The UK’s top wedding advice site for grooms. For more tips on planning your honeymoon, check out the site.
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