After your wedding ceremony, you’re probably looking forward to your honeymoon most of all. To make the most of it, avoid these mistakes.

10. Looking for Bargains

Don’t get cheap on anything about your wedding, but especially your honeymoon. If the type of honeymoon you really want is out of your budget, either pick your second choice or do a modest “placeholder” honeymoon and save the real trip for later, because bargain-hunting on your honeymoon has the potential to really ruin your experience. Multiple connections, red-eye flights, unsavory hotels, and running out of cash early can all be disastrous for the most important element in your honeymoon, starting your lives together.

9. Planning Too Much

Since the most important part of your honeymoon is spending time together, planning too many activities can also be disastrous. You will feel dragged-down, worn-out, and cranky. Plus you’ll feel you missed out on spending time together. Some activities are good to make sure you get out and avoid cabin fever, but don’t make your days jam-packed.

8. Picking the Wrong Destination

It may seem paradoxical, but don’t pick the place you’ve always wanted to go for your honeymoon. Since you’re not planning on doing too much, there would be too much you’ll miss and you’ll feel cheated.

7. Waiting until the Last Minute

If you wait until the last minute, you’ll find that not only is everything more expensive, you also have a lot fewer options. Start planning your honeymoon once you set the date for your wedding.

6. Taking Too Little Time Off

Your honeymoon is the official start of your married life. Do you want a marriage where you’re always rushing from one another’s arms to get back to work, the kids, and dirty dishes? Didn’t think so.

5. Leaving Too Soon after the Wedding

It’s romantic to think you’ll be leaving your ceremony to go right to the airport, but it’s actually best if you take some time after the ceremony to catch your breath, make sure you have everything, said goodbye to all your out-of-town company, and all the other little details.

4. Traveling at the Wrong Time

Some destinations have a definite season and individual time periods where you want to avoid them. For example, unless you want alcoholic vomit as the official smell and wet t-shirt contests as the official backdrop, it’s best to avoid spring break destinations when they’re likely to be crowded.

3. Having Too Many Expectations

A honeymoon is a period of discovery. If you approach it with too many assumptions, you may be unhappy when reality doesn’t meet what you expected. Be open to the possibilities and the delights of the unexpected.

2. Bringing the Kids

There’s nothing wrong with marrying someone with kids, either your own or someone else’s, but your honeymoon should be about you as a couple. You will be with the kids for many, many, many years to come. Take this time to be without them.

1. Not Planning Together

Your marriage is supposed to be an equal partnership. If you’re not planning together, not speaking up about what you want from the get-go, it’s a bad sign for your future. Let honeymoon planning establish the template for future cooperative decisions. Speak now, or be prepared to forever hold your peace.

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