Its me wrote:
> "How do you pay for a honeymoon before it happens? (Pre-paid
> package tour or something?)"
>
> Steve
>
> Steve, what I meant is that we had the money to pay for our honeymoon
> ahead of time without having to borrow or go in any debt. We hadn't
> actually literally paid for all of our meal checks & tips, motels, gas,
> etc before the fact.
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> "Well, then, include us among the exceptions, also. DH and I both had
> good jobs and were fortunate enough to be able to pay for our wedding
> ourselves. It wasn't a lavish affair (the ceremony was held outdoors at
> an overlook at the "PA Grand Canyon", and the reception afterwards was
> held in a parish hall connected to a local Catholic church), and we paid
> for things, little by little, starting a year before the event. At the
> end of the reception, we gave the caterer a check for the balance, and
> everything (except for wedding photos, which we paid for when we ordered
> them later on) was done. My mom made my wedding dress, we bought our own
> booze for the reception, and we got married in a very inexpensive area.
> It was a wonderful party, and many of the guests still tell us--13 years
> later--what a great time they had. Our honeymoon was a week-long road
> trip from PA back down to Houston (we had driven up for the wedding),
> with stops in the Poconos, Williamsburg, VA, and Memphis along the way.
> No debts to pay off for us.
> I just cannot fathom how/why people spend tens/hundreds of thousands of
> dollars on *one* day..."
>
> Mary
>
> Mary, your wedding sounds quite similar to ours.
> We also go married in Pa, although in a church rather than at Little
> Grand Canyon.
> And then we also drove to Texas, but to our new house outside Dallas.
>
> We did have a formal church wedding complete with long white gown, 6
> attendants, reception at the Shriner's social hall, etc.
> But we also had been working for a while and had the money to pay for
> everything ourselves and started planning and paying as we went along
> for months in advance.
> We also closed on our first home less than a month before the wedding,
> so we did not want to go overboard for a wedding, but instead have the
> money to buy all the things we wanted to get settled into our home.
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For our honeymoon we drove from her home in MD to my home in TX. Made
every bit of 39 miles the first day.

That's when I found out my wife was a witch. Every time she looked at me
I turned into a motel. <BSEG>