Tips on Thursday - Honeymoons

Honeymoons too often take a backseat to the arrangements and plans of the actual wedding, but you owe it to yourself to give honeymoon planning greater and more careful attention. After all, while the wedding is mainly for your family and friends, the once-in-a-lifetime honeymoon that follows is a private getaway for you and your new spouse to celebrate your marriage. Though you may spend a portion of your vacation relaxing and reflecting on this major life change, the honeymoon is most of all an opportunity to enjoy being a newlywed, spending quality time with your new spouse, and experiencing a romantic and exciting getaway.

Honeymooners have endless options. Following months of wedding planning, couples often retreat to a luxurious resort that caters to their every need, while others trek to an adventurous escape from their day-to-day lives. Whether a beach vacation or a safari, the honeymoon should reflect your joint personality and wishes.

Keep in mind that perfect honeymoons don't just happen, and planning requires thoughtfulness, patience, careful attention to details, and a lot of decision-making along the way. The more homework you do before leaving for your honeymoon, the more you will enjoy your special vacation.

With today’s economy, couples are left with a staycation-type of honeymoon. With our Honeymoon Gift Registry, you can register for your dream honeymoon and friends and family can deposit money into your registry as their wedding gift to you. They can even pick portions of your honeymoon like a couples massage, spa treatments, airport transfers and more. Make this a retreat of a lifetime with the help of your friends and family.

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Tips on Thursday - 24 Romantic Honeymoon Destinations

I’m in the mood for love - or at least the mood is in the air! 

Love. Romance. Words that tend to pop-up a lot in the month of February, what with Valentine's Day having just passed us by and the thoughts of the coming spring season, and the traditional wedding season. Weddings. Honeymoons. It's that time once again where couples are planning that once-in-a-lifetime trip that they'll take after they first get married.  But where to go? Despite that well known Disney theme park attraction song... the world really isn't small - there are SO MANY terrific places that couples might go to enjoy their first few days or weeks as married people.  

Last summer, CNN featured an article listing the Top 24 Romantic Destinations, which I'm featuring here:  

www.cnn.com/2011/TRAVEL/08/16/honeymoon.destinations.m/index.html?hpt=tr_t1

In reading through this article once again, I was thrilled to see all the cool destinations. Some were a no brainer. Others were a true gem that many may have not considered.  All of them are available to you through Cruise Planners. 

The Top 5:

5. South Africa

4. Portugal

3. Morocco

2. Tahiti

1. Switzerland

The best thing about love is that it doesn’t have to be about falling in love for the first time. It’s falling in love every single day with your significant other. It’s a special birthday celebration. Or an anniversary. It’s a simple “thank you” and “I love you”.

  

Personally, each of these 24 destinations is on my bucket list before I die.  So far I've got three of them checked off already...21 more to go!

If you would like to check out one of these places but don’t know how it can be possible, give it a shot. It’s totally possible with a little help from your friends and family. So many weddings today are for older folks - people who have either waited to get married and they're now in their 30's, or it's a second marriage.  Individuals who are blending two existing households full of toasters, blenders, board games & towels.  So what kind of a gift to give those people who already have two of this, that, and everything else?  Why not travel?  Or simply components of travel, such as a shore excursion, a massage, a special meal, or a bottle of wine? There are so many possibilities.    At Cruise Planners, we offer a fun, innovative way to make it all possible, through our Travel Gift Registry.  

This Travel Registry works just like any other gift registry. So if you are thinking of a destination wedding and honeymoon we can handle it all.