SCHEDULING TIPS

It’s all in the Timing
 
As you schedule honeymoon travel, keep in mind there are things you can and can’t control. Here are a few insights into location research and timing ideas to help you make sure you are taking your honeymoon at the best possible time.
 
Weather Watch
Be sure and carefully consider the season and the weather when scheduling your honeymoon. Are you planning a first of August wedding followed by a cruise in the Caribbean? August  in the Caribbean is the beginning of the rainy season, making the chances of a waterlogged honeymoon very high. And just because it’s summer in the Northern Hemisphere, doesn’t promise long, sunny days in the Southern Hemisphere. Australia and New Zealand enjoy full summer when Northern Hemisphere countries like the U.S., Canada and European lands are deep in the dark, cold days of January and February.
 
Take time to research the weather of your dream location and the best times to travel. The better you align your travel plans with weather forecasts, the better the forecast for romance will be! Visit weather.com to explore the climate and optimum travel seasons of locations around the world.
 
Spoilers: Events to Avoid
Imagine arriving at your honeymoon destination to discover that the world’s largest Yodeling & Alpine Horn Blowing Convention is scheduled for the same week of your getaway? Or maybe a five-day outdoor heavy metal rock festival is taking place on the same beach as your dreamy island resort, promising grating music and drunken partygoers galore?
 
Check with our honeymoon experts and your hotel to be sure there are not loud, obnoxious or enormous events scheduled during your planned honeymoon period. A little advance homework on event conflicts can help ensure that the location you choose looks and sounds like the honeymoon you imagine.
 
Rate & Budget Factors
All locations, especially honeymoon destinations, have high and low seasons. If you want to make the most of your honeymoon budget, check in to see when rates are at their highest and why. Oftentimes you can get a great bargain by traveling just before or just after the high season, avoiding sky-high rates and floods of tourists.
 
Consider Family Conflicts 
Are there any momentous family events to consider scheduling around? Will your bride’s one and only sister be delivering her first child over the two weeks you are planning to honeymoon? Are the groom’s grandparents celebrating a 60th wedding anniversary? While there are plenty of family matters that can be overlooked for a honeymoon, don’t schedule over anything you might regret missing. It would be terrible to be out in the middle of somewhere incredible wishing you were back home for someone’s important day.
 
Stay Flexible & True to Your Wants
Just because you marry on June 16, doesn’t mean you have to be whisked away the next day or even the next week to your honeymoon hideaway. Plenty of couples find that putting some time between the wedding and their travels allows them to take a step back and enjoy the honeymoon more.
 
Some couples may want a few weeks to set up their new homes and new gifts prior to a honeymoon trip. Other couples may have different visions for wedding and honeymoon magic. Maybe you want a glorious spring wedding but a fall honeymoon at the peak of France’s wine harvest season? Why not! Christmas nuptials but a summertime honeymoon on Mexico’s magical beaches? Go for it! Don’t feel locked into the traditional pattern of a wedding followed right away by the honeymoon. Look at what works best for you as a couple and schedule based on your goals and ideas about the idea escape.

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