Honeymoon Ideas

One of the best parts of planning a wedding is deciding where to go for your honeymoon. Gone are the days when couples spend their honeymoon by booking a hotel in an exotic country, sipping exotic drinks. In today's pocket-pinching times, you would need to get the maximum out of the budget you have for your honeymoon. More than anything, this means that you would want it to be as unusual as possible. Here are some creative ideas for you to think about.

Go on a historical tour. If you and your fiancé are the curious type and would like to add to your understanding, try this one. Visit places that are frequently mentioned in history books. Check out destinations from the American Revolution. Go to India and visit the places that made an impact in Gandhi's life. Take a trip to the boyhood houses of famous presidents like Lincoln, Carter, and Kennedy. You can even go on a biblical history tour and bring the stories from the Bible to life. Not only will you be learning something new, you will also be sharing this knowledge and these memories with the person you adore by your side.

Go on a lighthouse honeymoon. Lighthouses used to be significant aids to navigation, sometimes located along threatening coastlines to provide help to incoming ships. But thanks to the arrival of more advanced technology, they became nearly obsolete. These structures are still good for a purpose though. Lighthouses are very romantic and secluded places, they are even settings for two romantic novels and these make them the perfect setting for a honeymoon. Some couples find it highly romantic to cuddle up and watch the dawn, nightfall, and the blue waves from the best point of view possible. Who knows? You can even be keepers of the light' and throw in a little adventure to share with your new partner.

Go on a holiday tour. Festival tours are fun if you and your fiancé are an adventurous couple. Try the annual international Cherry Blossom holiday in Macon, Georgia. Are not three hundred thousand flowering cherry blossom trees one of the most romantic things ever? The Cannes Film holiday is also a brilliant idea to try out if you are a film-loving couple. This event is held in the dreamy city of Cannes which is in southern France, home to a few of the most romantic destinations in the world.

Go on a literary greats tour. Are you and your partner lovers of avid readers? Do you like the classic literary greats? Why not go back in time and travel in the steps of classic writers and poets like William Wordsworth, Charlotte Bronte, Mark Twain, and John Keats. You can go to London, which is home to lots of these greats. Visit Missouri which was almost a personality in Twain's novels. Some of the houses of these authors and poets also double as museums so you can look at original manuscripts and even get a copy of their works. Stroll along the trails that inspired these folk to draft some of the best stories ever and it'll forever be a moment you hold dear with your beloved one.

Go on a honeymoon mission trip. Plenty of people nowadays are choosing an alternative way to celebrate an event by helping out the less fortunate. Debutantes and other birthday celebrants would go to an orphanage, as an example, to hold their parties there. Why not spend your honeymoon doing something that would benefit others? You could go to a poor country and interact with the people there. Learn about their culture and volunteer to join outreach organization activities for a month or two. This would be terribly remarkable because not only are you sharing something major with each other, you are also doing something that would make an impact in other people's's lives.

Your honeymoon days will be some of the most remarkable days in your life as a married couple. The places you visit also will be great backgrounds for superb footage that you can take home with you and reminisce over. You can look back at them even during the bad days and they can actually give you a smile. So don't stick with something cliché. Get creative; try the tips above or think about your own! Your fiancé will surely appreciate and reward you for your creativeness.

by Mark Gibson