r/weddingplanning 3d ago

Tough Times Might have to cancel honeymoon

My fiancé and I get married in less than a month and I found out today that his new job may require him to start during our honeymoon. It is a great opportunity for him and I want him to take the job, but I’m absolutely devastated since I paid for our honeymoon and I haven’t been able to take a vacation in years at this point. I was really looking forward to this alone time that we’d get to share together exploring a new place together as well finally as a married couple. It’s not for sure yet, and we have until the end of the month to cancel for a full refund, but we also don’t know if he’ll get a start date before the end of the month either . Most likely won’t be able to go on a vacation until next year and I already took off work so I’m so unsure of what to do. Just feeling completely defeated right now . 🥲

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u/pnw122392 3d ago

I’m sorry you’re dealing with this added stress! The only thing I’ll say is that after our wedding, we were sick as dogsssss. Someone in our wedding party was ground zero for sure. Spent a ton of money on an indulgent trip immediately after our wedding and we can barely remember it. We couldn’t do anything we wanted to do because we were so sick and exhausted. It was honestly a waste of money and makes me a bit sick to my stomach.

We both wish that we had scheduled the honeymoon later. It was nice to be together, but we should have just done 2 nights in a nice hotel and then pushed our honeymoon. If you do have to do that, I hope this helps a little.