Fly me to the moon...

Or the Bahamas... Or Paris...

... drive me to Brighton??!

A honeymoon comes well deserved after a wedding, and regardless of its shape and form, or the amount of money spent on it, I truly think should be something every new bride and groom gets to experience!

Imagine it: for months you have been wolfing up information from the same websites, ringing the same people about the same problems, writing countless cheques and squirming at bank statements... the last thing you want to do is go back to that same armchair, phone and credit card!

And the best thing is that a honeymoon doesn’t necessarily mean splashing out on an overpriced cruise, round the world flight or even getting out of the country! Just leaving your wedding planning surroundings is a relief in itself.

Yet more and more couples are choosing to "hold back" on a 'moon'- the most common reason being that they simply cannot afford it... and yet the most popular wedding gift asked for nowadays is money. Make this top of your wedding list requests (Because even if you implicitly say you do NOT want gifts, people WILL insist) and you will be well on your way to a trip somewhere nice. Also, by factoring your break into your wedding costs, any gift money comes as a bonus and you can save feeling guilty for another day.

Everybody talks (and I’m one of them!) about the stresses of wedding planning... even if you are the most calm, positive, level-headed person in the world (like my hubby!), weddings do take their toll.

They are all consuming-  become all you talk about, all you dream about... and when you go shopping, all you buy for to the point where you are so in tune to wedding frequency that just catching a glimpse of “your colours” ends up with you soon queuing at the tills, basket high...

And it’s not ever apparent just how much you think about it until you stop.

We didn’t ever plan on having a honeymoon, but are so unbelievably happy we did! We slept, and ate, walked and TALKED... (Something we rarely sat back and enjoyed while planning!) I didn’t wear make-up or worry about eating so much ice-cream i'd get break-outs or not fit into my wedding dress... He didn’t suffer with migraines from my nagging him... It was bliss.

The ultimate chill-out a honeymoon has to offer is honestly the best wedding present you can receive.

So take this as Hens thought for the day: Book yourself a honeymoon- if you have the money, go somwehere you always dreamed about, if you don’t, grab a cheap UK break at a B&B in the middle of nowhere and just relish in the silence.

You’ll love me for it J

Love,