Honeymoon Planning

The first destination we thought of four our honeymoon was Europe. Two years ago we had a fabulous time in Nice, France together so we set our search on the Italian Riviera just east of Nice. Look how beautiful the towns are! Ti Amo Italia! With great wine and cheese to boot.

We initially thought a two week trip would be perfect. We searched for flights, train tickets, car rentals, even bike tours. Needless to say it added up quickly. For the distance we'd have to travel we wanted to make sure we stayed a while. Then we discovered most of this coast was not going to be a beachy time like we had in France, because most of this area of the coast is rocky or well a cliff.

A beach is quintessentially honeymoon right? So we thought we'd check out more "beachy" areas. My Coworker has gone on the most amazing trips to Indonesia like beautiful Indonesia, like Bali and Maldives seen below. They took these with a regular digital camera.

Can you handle more?

So Amazing. After researching Bali and overwater bungalows - swoon, Chris wasn't sure he was up for ten days in Indonesia since the cost was equivalent to Italy, and .. we had started house hunting in San Francisco.

Since this is "the time to buy a house" we couldn't ignore all the for sale signs going up in our neighborhood. After some serious thought we decided to cut our honeymoon budget in leu of a house fund. Luckily that still gives us money to go somewhere special. We looked into Napa. A few days at a really nice hotel with a spa, wine, and reservations at top restaurants like The French Laundry -if we can get in and Gary Danko, sounded pretty good.

We've always enjoyed going to the wine country, but it just seemed.. too close to home. Really we could go here any given weekend, so we tucked it away as a backup.

Then came Hawaii. Everyone on the west coast says something like San Francisco is so close to Hawaii you kind of have to go while your here. It might not have the five start restaurants or impressive wine and cheese, but it's just far enough away, beachy, full of activities we haven't done and a couples massage on the beach sounds right up my alley.

Not only that, but many of our friends have been there, loved it, and have great recommendations for us. Tonight we'll start calling hotels and hopefully our honeymoon will be booked! We still want to end the honeymoon with a trip to the French Laundry and as for Italy and Maldives, we know we'll see you soon - hopefully leaving behind a house of our own.