The latest on honeymoons

With all the planning that goes into the wedding ceremony and reception, it’s definitely important that someone keeps the honeymoon in mind. From making sure that the dollars going into it are factored into the overall wedding budget to paying attention to “what’s up” in the economy and the world, there are a lot of things to assess.

Gas prices taking a climb for the worse right now is surely affecting people’s interests in taking a road trip of any length, or going somewhere that they’ll be responsible for buying fuel for a car - at least in the U.S. Weather and other happenings - such as the Olympics in China, for instance - all have effects on where we’d like to go and when.

Tonight, I came across this item from FloridaTrend.com that shows some stats on honeymoons in general and what people are up to of late. From destination weddings to “going green,” there are a whole ton more factors to ponder when doing your planning (don’t you need more options?). They also report that “destination” bachelor/ette parties are something of interest right now. What I didn’t notice is anything about how economic conditions overall are hindering people’s travels. In fact the New York Daily News‘ Paul Schultz writing about how “tropical islands” are a “persistent theme” when it comes to honeymoons - and for good reason.

Also crossing my path tonight was a tool that portrays itself as fitting into the groom’s wheelhouse. Blissport calls itself “honeymoon planning for guys,” and even offers a few tips and tricks in Honeymoon School. I’ve played a little bit with the service, and I can’t say it’s super-targeted for guys, at least in user experience and content, but maybe that’ll grow on me over time. It seems like the “school” content is where the “guy” focus is at, and the rest of it seems to be pretty general travel focused.

Is Blissport the solution for chipping in and doing something? It’s one of them, for sure, but what I think most guys probably find is that if they’re into vacation and travel, it’s an easy transition to plan something cool for the two of you as a honeymoon. Just don’t focus on things that YOU want to do the whole time, and she’ll probably appreciate you for it.