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Inspired by this thread. I don't think I've posted this in its entirety before.
Here is the story of my honeymoon. Yours definately will be better, but my example is something to think about.
Saturday: everything was perfect, the wedding was beautiful, reception was a lot of fun. My wife and I thought we would close the place down and leave after midnight. But I guess there is a long standing tradition in many areas of the US that guests cannot leave until after the wedding couple leaves. Around 11 pm we started getting many complaints asking us to leave so my relatives could go home. So we left. Drove to a bed and breakfast not too far away. New wife took ~2 hours to get her hair pins out and to get showered after the sweaty dress/dance.
Sunday: 1:30 am, she finally is done getting out of her wedding dress, came into the bedroom and wanted to go right to sleep because it was late. Biggest dissapointment of my life, sleep wasn't on my mind. I eventually caved and we went to sleep instead. 3:30 am, she wakes up vomitting all over the place. I rush to find a trashcan, it was wicker and didn't hold the liquid. I search for towels to clean it up. 4:00 am, I'm in Hy-Vee in street clothes and shiny tuxedo shoes (since I forgot to pack tennis shoes) getting Tylenol PM. 8:00 am, breakfast is delivered to the door. New wife refuses to get up and eat it. We were to leave by 9 am for the honeymoon trip.
She finally gets up around noon, just in time to get out of the bed and breakfast without a late fee. I spend that entire afternoon rescheduling everything we had planned on the honeymoon for one day later. Countless begging phone calls to waive the late cancellation fees later, I was done. We open gifts and visit relatives (the one positive thing about my whole honeymoon). No sex again since she is still feeling ill.
Monday: we are to leave at 9 am again for our delayed honeymoon. New wife refuses to get out of bed until 10 am. Luckilly I finally drag her out of bed and we barely make it on time.
Honeymoon: everything I had planned was cancelled. I wanted to do sight-seeing all over Florida. She wanted to sit by the pool and relax doing nothing. So that is what we did - absolutely nothing. Nothing during the day, nothing in bed.
All this from a fun-loving, adventurous, morning-person, wonderful girlfriend who filled me with stories of how well be having sex 5 times a day on our honeymoon. Six years later I finally had enough and got divorced and met a very wonderful new girlfriend. I like stories with a happy ending.
Lessons I learned in the worst week of my life:
1) Never leave on your honeymoon right after your wedding. I think far too many people make this mistake.
2) Anyone who waits 5 years of dating without sex until marriage is an idiot. If you have watched Sex and the City, you already know this lesson.
3) New wife refuses to have sex - at least not more than once a year. Ok, this is a personal lesson and doesn't apply to most of you, but it does fit in with the no sex after marriage cliche.
4) New wife now won't wake up before noon for anything at all. Lesson for you, even if you date someone for years, they'll might change 180° around the day you marry them.
5) New wife doesn't like to do activities on trips, I'm the exact opposite and like to fill my trips with sightseeing. Lesson for you: let your honeymoon be a slow relaxation trip just sharing time together with your new spouse. Don't make it into a vacation where you spend all your time travelling or doing things that aren't really quality time together.
6) Don't plan your wedding reception to be a late evening reception.
Here is the story of my honeymoon. Yours definately will be better, but my example is something to think about.
Saturday: everything was perfect, the wedding was beautiful, reception was a lot of fun. My wife and I thought we would close the place down and leave after midnight. But I guess there is a long standing tradition in many areas of the US that guests cannot leave until after the wedding couple leaves. Around 11 pm we started getting many complaints asking us to leave so my relatives could go home. So we left. Drove to a bed and breakfast not too far away. New wife took ~2 hours to get her hair pins out and to get showered after the sweaty dress/dance.
Sunday: 1:30 am, she finally is done getting out of her wedding dress, came into the bedroom and wanted to go right to sleep because it was late. Biggest dissapointment of my life, sleep wasn't on my mind. I eventually caved and we went to sleep instead. 3:30 am, she wakes up vomitting all over the place. I rush to find a trashcan, it was wicker and didn't hold the liquid. I search for towels to clean it up. 4:00 am, I'm in Hy-Vee in street clothes and shiny tuxedo shoes (since I forgot to pack tennis shoes) getting Tylenol PM. 8:00 am, breakfast is delivered to the door. New wife refuses to get up and eat it. We were to leave by 9 am for the honeymoon trip.
She finally gets up around noon, just in time to get out of the bed and breakfast without a late fee. I spend that entire afternoon rescheduling everything we had planned on the honeymoon for one day later. Countless begging phone calls to waive the late cancellation fees later, I was done. We open gifts and visit relatives (the one positive thing about my whole honeymoon). No sex again since she is still feeling ill.
Monday: we are to leave at 9 am again for our delayed honeymoon. New wife refuses to get out of bed until 10 am. Luckilly I finally drag her out of bed and we barely make it on time.
Honeymoon: everything I had planned was cancelled. I wanted to do sight-seeing all over Florida. She wanted to sit by the pool and relax doing nothing. So that is what we did - absolutely nothing. Nothing during the day, nothing in bed.
All this from a fun-loving, adventurous, morning-person, wonderful girlfriend who filled me with stories of how well be having sex 5 times a day on our honeymoon. Six years later I finally had enough and got divorced and met a very wonderful new girlfriend. I like stories with a happy ending.
Lessons I learned in the worst week of my life:
1) Never leave on your honeymoon right after your wedding. I think far too many people make this mistake.
2) Anyone who waits 5 years of dating without sex until marriage is an idiot. If you have watched Sex and the City, you already know this lesson.
3) New wife refuses to have sex - at least not more than once a year. Ok, this is a personal lesson and doesn't apply to most of you, but it does fit in with the no sex after marriage cliche.
4) New wife now won't wake up before noon for anything at all. Lesson for you, even if you date someone for years, they'll might change 180° around the day you marry them.
5) New wife doesn't like to do activities on trips, I'm the exact opposite and like to fill my trips with sightseeing. Lesson for you: let your honeymoon be a slow relaxation trip just sharing time together with your new spouse. Don't make it into a vacation where you spend all your time travelling or doing things that aren't really quality time together.
6) Don't plan your wedding reception to be a late evening reception.