Honeymoon Plans Postponed

Posted Tuesday, December 29, 2009 6:44 PM

So Phil(my FI) and I were kicking around the idea of a European honeymoon after our April 17th wedding.  Phil wanted to go to Rome(since he lived/studied there for about a month) while I wanted Paris(since I also lived/studied there for a month also).

The two of us both know our way through both Italy and France.  His Italian isn't great, but having 3 romance languages under my belt, I can pretty much understand what people are trying to tell me.  And as for France, well I lived there for a month without knowing any French prior, and I seemed to have gotten along just fine. I will say this to anyone who is going to go to Paris.  Central Paris is awesome! It's like being at Disneyland.  You cannot get lost.  No matter where you are in the city you are always like 50 feet away from a metro stop. So you go down to the metro, look at the map, figure out where you are and where you want to go and there you go!

 But the issue is the funds for our honemoon are coming from his main general savings account which will also be used as a down payment for our new home.  Right now, we are trying to hurry through the process because we NEED to find a place to live before the wedding.

 So we sat down together and discussed priorities.  What was more important?  Two weeks in Europe or nice place to live in for the next 50+ years(hopefully).  

At this point after seeing all the money that is being spent on the wedding, I don't blame any of the girls that choose to have a destination wedding with only a few close friends and family members.  The great benefit to that would be to put all that extra money into our down payment.  We're looking to put down $50k on our new house.  If we had done the destination route for the wedding it would have been more like $70k.

The main reason we didn't do that was because we have been together for so long, we figured we deserved to have a big party(not really that big, our guest list is roughly 100 to 120) people.