What to do on a honeymoon.

[Andrew_Culture]

Less than £1000, including service, reception for about 70 guests and honeymoon. In today's money that's less than £1800. My suit cost a tenner from a charity shop. Mrs W spent about £40 on her outfit.

(I see I've still got one of my honeymoon photos as my avatar.)

If you can cope with low church puritanism after the high-church froth and campery of Mirfield, I'd recommend Kirkwall.

70 guests! Wow!

 

[Arch]

Less than £1000, including service, reception for about 70 guests and honeymoon. In today's money that's less than £1800. My suit cost a tenner from a charity shop. Mrs W spent about £40 on her outfit.

That is good going. We probably won't spend much on outfits (I'd spend the day in jeans if I can get away with it) and we're planning to ask guests to bring buffet food in lieu of gifts, since we both have all the implements for living we need. It's possible that our single greatest expense will be the official registry office fees!

 

[Alex H]

I want somewhere where I have the option to do NOTHING AT ALL (except drink wine and read, with the occasional swim) and he wants some activities like um, diving and visiting interesting places and seeing nice animals maybe. We'd like it to be warm and not rainy / hurricaney.

And food. Food is very important.

Any ideas?

Cyprus

 

[Fnaar]

You could try Canvey Island

 

[srw]

70 guests! Wow!

Self-catered, and in what was effectively the church hall*. A friend of the family came in to look after the catering and we went shopping. My mother-in-law baked the cake and got it iced for us. We went to Oddbins on sale or return for some (carefully selected) good value wine.

It helped that we didn't have to pay anything for the service other than the basic legal fee - a church wedding doesn't come cheap if you have to pay for it.

*a very glamorous church hall - the mediaeval Old Library.

we're planning to ask guests to bring buffet food in lieu of gifts,

Friends of ours did that - they hired a community hall and had a straightforward knees-up. Great fun, I remember.

 

[Andrew_Culture]

One of the nicest weddings I went to was a buffet reception where each guest brought a dish.

It was the same wedding that I turned up as a guest and was asked to play the church organ for the service; to this day I still have no idea what made my friends think I could play the organ!

 

[ianrauk]

I better not tell you how much my (2nd) wedding cost.
Daddies little gurl and all that...All I had to really do was turn up.

 

[Saluki]

We went to Australia on honeymoon but the wedding was done on the cheap. We didn't buy new clothes! We wore clothes we already owned and saved a lot of money. Getting to Aus was expensive though but once there, not so bad.

Have you thought of Croatia, Estonia or Poland for a holiday. All lovely and inexpensive. Or Cornwall - you can drive there and take dogs if you have any. We go to Cornwall quite often, would like to live there (Should have moved down when we left Scotland!) There is diving, surfing, decent beaches and quiet bits, even in the middle of the summer hols.

Have you considered a plan B of getting away for a long weekend after the wedding and then having a nice (cheaper) holiday, off season? I am assuming by your window of dates that you might be teachers or some such though.

Congratulations on your impending wedding :-)

 

[User482]

Here's what we did:

Train to London, meal at Criterium, then went to the theatre. Train to Paris. Stayed in an apartment in Montmatre (recommended - lovely neighbourhood). Did the full tourist thing (Eiffel tower, Louvre, Musee D'Orsay which was my favourite). Ate lots of nice food. Train to Nice, more nice food. Ferry to Corsica. Stayed in an apartment in the citadel in Calvi, did lots of walking, swimming, boat trip, eating out. Diving is available.

We both thoroughly enjoyed ourselves.

Regarding keeping the wedding cost down, we provided the booze, made our own wedding cake, used our own car and the photographer was a family friend.

P.S Congratulations!

 

[srw]

used our own car

Has anyone else used a service bus (the number 7a if I remember correctly) as wedding transport?

(These days we'd get on the tandem, I suspect.)

Anyway - back to the honeymoon. I've already suggested Kirkwall. It might not give you the sun, but would give you diving, and there's a swimming pool. Alternatively, how about the Atlantic coast of France? In July it might be relatively quiet - it's geared up for the French August getaway.

 

[Night Train]

Sorry for the hijack, but for comparison....

When I was first married, back in the early 90's, we had the wedding in London and then had a convoy of cars, with around 60 guests, down to Penshurst Place in Kent. We had the 400 year old great hall with a spit roasted 'pig on a stick' over the central open fire and the food was served on half rounds of bread. We had a live band and a dance floor installed and special permission to have amplified music.
The whole thing cost about £10k with over £1k on her dress plus a pair of hand made shoes.
Then the honeymoon was a driving tour of Scotland staying at some amazing hotels.

That worked out at well over £3.5k per year before she got off with someone else and we split up!




I really like the idea of spending less then £600 with Arch, for a lifetime together!
She looks good in jeans too.

 

[Aperitif]

Part of it is going to be a flop - wherever you end up.
Have your honeymoon on a bridge near the Bristol Channel, and you could be starring in "Severn Brides for Heaven's Lovers..."
Bless your beautiful hide.

 

[Fnaar]

I've often fancied spending a week pretending to be an otter, and I suggest that this might be an interesting and different way to spend one's honeymoon.

 

[Aperitif]

I've often fancied spending a week pretending to be an otter, and I suggest that this might be an interesting and different way to spend one's honeymoon.

A tour of the Tabasco Factory perhaps? That'll be a little 'otter. Anything bigger Fnaarmeister?

 

[Markymark]

I've often fancied spending a week pretending to be an otter, and I suggest that this might be an interesting and different way to spend one's honeymoon.

Well, it was only a matter of time before someone mentioned otters.....

Scotland is lovely - a quiet hotel on Skye with nothing to do tohger than pootle from breakfast to lunch to dinner through magnificant secenery ...and cosy nights in...!!!