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As you are reading this, my boat is probably docking back in Boston after a week-long trip to Bermuda. It took me decades to convince my husband to go on a cruise, and this will be our third. We have become very fond of buffets and towels folded to resemble frogs on our bed at the turn-down service.
I have always wanted to visit Bermuda. Hey, I wear the shorts and love pink and green. When I was in college, a lot of my friends planned their June weddings and Bermuda honeymoons. I, of course, did not follow the rules. I got married in January and went to Maine for my honeymoon, where we were snowed in in an old farmhouse. Since it was our honeymoon, that was kind of okay. After driving through a blizzard, I really did not want to ever get out of bed. 
Now I want a bit more adventure in my travels, particularly since I have a new book coming out on October 30 and I’ll have to stay close to home and the Internet for a month to promote it. Lord Gray’s List is the first London List book, and I’ll give away an Advance Reader Copy to one commenter who tells me where they (or someone they know) spent their honeymoon.
Do you have a honeymoon disaster story? Here’s mine. We were staying in my husband’s boyhood home while his mother and stepfather were in Florida (obviously, that’s where you want to go in January). The house was being looked after by their handyman, who somehow forgot we were coming. One morning, we woke up to him standing in the bedroom doorway. John had to explain who we were. I just pulled the blanket up over my head. The guy must have talked for fifteen minutes before my husband reminded him that we were both naked and could he please go and shovel something. We remembered to lock the door the rest of the week.
We ended up just go to the movies with my dad, I can’t remember what we saw, everything before the wedding went wrong, the priest ended up in a hospital, my dress was not completed, my mom and I argued, etc…etc…I guess you could say our honeymoon trip was our move from Florida to Washington State, a month later.
The important thing is that you’re still married, LOL. We drove through a blizzard to find a movie theater–the old-fashioned inn we stayed at on the way to Maine didn’t have a TV. Even on honeymoons, my husband must have his TV!!!
Ooo, Maggie! I love that cruise to Bermuda from Boston. We’ve done it a couple times since we can take a taxi down to the port from our home.
Honeymoon distaster, eh? Well, not much can upset a honeymoon, but I had a culinary mishap that dampened things for a bit. My grandparents let us use their cabin in northern Minnesota and my sweet little grandma had left a pan of her fabulouse cinnamon rolls in the frig that we could heat and eat. I popped them into the oven and for some reason… (it was our honeymoon, remember!) we lost track of the time and I burned the whole pan.
However, my DH didnt complain. He’d helped me lose track of the time, after all…
Ha!
We plan to go on the same cruise next year. So relaxing & Bermuda is just lovely. We didn’t get to St. George (?) this time & want to see it next. If I could figure out how to pay for a research trip for about 6 months, I’d do it!
St. George is a lovely little town that time forgot. There are so many 18th century homes in beautiful repair. Fascinating. I also love the fact that there was no indigenous population in Bermuda for the Europeans to uproot when they finally discovered the island.
My husband ditched me on our honeymoon!
Well, o.k. Only for a few hours. We went to Vancouver, to the worlds fair. We decided to take a week and go out to VC Island. So we are taking the ferry. My husband continued onto the ferry and I of course found a little boutique.(why they put shopping in such locations!) Well as I shopped, assuming my husband was outside, waiting like a patient new groom would. (right) he was sailing away across the straight.
Now, where does he think I am? In the bathroom, really honey for the entire ferry ride? When he finally realizes I am NOT with him, he did have a few moments of panic, explained to the crew and they were very helpful to reunite the honeymooners:-)
Me, I just thought, oh well eventually he will come back for me , I hope.
To this day, he always knows where I am in a crowd or event. It is kind of sweet.
The evils of shopping, LOL.
I got on a plane last month w/o my husband and was sure he wouldn’t make it. We had to get from Gate 4 to Gate 77. Gasp. I walk a little faster than he does so sprinted through the terminal. I was all ready to plead with the fight attendant when John finally came down the aisle!
My husband had the great idea to travel on our honeymoon. We went up through MI, into Canada, Niagara Falls, and down to Pennsylvania then back to MI. I was so wiped out. We went to dinner, on one of our last nights, to a wonderfully elegant restaurant. My husband ordered blue crab, and I ordered… Corn Flakes. I must have looked pretty pathetic, but the waitress was very kind.
You know, sometimes breakfast for dinner is just the thing. A good bowl of oatmeal with brown sugar & raisins is delicious and when you’re tired, you hardly have to chew!
I went home on leave to visit my family and then eloped with my boyfriend. We spent our honeymoon looking for a place to live in Eureka, Ca (I had to report to NAVFAC Centerville Beach and Eureka was the biggest town nearby). After finding a place we went explored the beaches around the area, then went back home to pack up all of our stuff to move in our first place.
Ooh! Eloping! I have one unmarried child left & as much as I loved the kids’ weddings, I wouldn’t mind if she snuck off.
I’m not married, so I don’t have a personally-experienced honeymoon story. However, a good friend tells the story of how they arrived in Madrid, walked out of the airport, and her husband promptly tripped off a kerb and thoroughly broke his ankle. Whereupon the next day and a half were spent in hospital, and the rest of the honeymoon with crutches and painkillers. Fun fun fun!
Oh, dear. When we were in Bermuda we saw two people carried off by ambulance after falling off their scooters. No way to spend a vacation!
No personal disaster story for me, but this is a friend’s story.
She and her husband took an Alaskan cruise for their honeymoon.
The ship was docked in Juneau and the passengers were told the ship would be leaving at 5pm. My friend and her husband had gotten off the ship to explore and decided to have a late lunch at one of the restaurants near the dock. As they were sitting at the table eating, they heard the ship’s horn and saw it pulling away from the dock, They freaked out – it was 2pm, not 5pm and they were afraid they were going to be stranded. They rushed to the dock to see what was going on – turns out another ship needed to dock to make a minor repair and their ship had moved out to make room. Tenders were sent to retrieve all the passengers who had gone ashore.
Ha. And boats really do leave people behind. I always get paranoid & usually stay on board the ship the last day they’re in port. There’s always the spa!
The honeymoon that I had was at our new apartment. We stayed there for a week. We spent the time listening to Peter Frampton ” Live “on the record player (no cd player then just 8 tract.)
We had such fun.
A honeymoon at home! I like it. You know where everything is.
Well it wasn’t quite a honeymoon disaster story but it definitely was interesting. My husband is a native of Maine and had always wanted to go on the schooners off the coast of Maine for a vacation. After shooting down my idea of going to Disney World for a honeymoon, he suggested a cruise on the schooners.Well, I had visions of a typical cruise with a captain’s table and swimming pools. What I got was a 60 foot wooden boat with no motor and sails that I got to help raise. The only bathroom was a one seater on deck( it doubled as a saltwater shower) that everyone shared. I also got to learn how to cook on a wood stove at sea. The most memorable moment however came when one of the other passengers mistook the small skylight that let the sunlight into our cabin through the deck for a window to look down below the water. As she told us later, she had spotted what she thought was a seal, at least until “it” reached up and closed the skylight. At that point she realized that the sea-life she had spotted was really us in our bunk. She had trouble looking us in the eye for the rest of the trip.
After 26 years, still married to that Maine-iac!
I have my own Maine-iac! My youngest daughter spent a week on one of those schooners when she was a teen, climbed up the mast and out to the end of the bowsprit, kept watch, etc. It was hard work! Those boats make use of every available inch…no room for seals, LOL.
No honeymoon stories.
Thanks for commenting anyway!
I’m not married so I asked my parents & 2 sisters on their honeymoons. No1 had one! Args! I guess if I ever get married I’ll have to do something about that.
I hope they had a good time anyway.
Like some of the others, I don’t have an odd honeymoon story.
Thanks for visiting!
Nope, no honeymoon story from me, good or bad.
Never been married. Still looking for my own hero to live out my HEA with. But I enjoyed reading every one’s stories!
Enjoy!
TBQ
Hope you find your HEA!
No disaster Honeymoon stories from me either. I love your handyman story Maggie. Did he not notice for 15 minutes he was intruding on newly weds. lol
Carol L
He was not the sharpest tool in the toolbox.
I don’t have a disaster story, but I sure have enjoyed reading everyone’s stories!!
Glad you enjoyed the post!
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