To think a mini moon at Xmas is depressing?

[Angel0u]

Posting for traffic. DP and my income is looking uncertain until the new year when he starts a new job. We are getting married at Xmas and our although we'd love to go off on honeymoon straight away we can't afford it, so we are planning to go in the Spring when things are more secure.
Any ideas for a mini moons / alternative that won't feel like a let down over Christmas week? It's our 1st Christmas celebrating as a couple without families - we had already booked time off work ready to go away, and our DC will be at MIL for a week! We'd like to go somewhere but within a budget, and as it's Christmas where we spend the actual day is a consideration.

With that budget, you could definitely get a nice cottage somewhere for Christmas week and have room to take DC with you too, with lots of yummy food, board games, festive films, lovely walks in the countryside, etc! Although most of the nicest ones are probably booked up by now so you'll have to move quickly.

We had a mini moon in Cardigan in Wales, would be good for wrap up walks along the blustery sea

AIBU to think a mini moon at Xmas is depressing? Yes it is. For your poor kids.

How old are they? I can't believe you are leaving them at Christmas.

Money is uncertain bit you have 1500 quid to spend on a break that isn't even your proper honeymoon 😂 jeezo poor you.

I'm also a bit 🤨 that you are leaving your dd2 for a week over Christmas for absolutely no reason!

Not dd2, dc

Wait you're actually going to be away on Christmas day? I thought it was just over the Christmas break! That's a bit sad really.

The child is 15, not 5, give the OP a break!

A log cabin, a hot tub, a wood-burning stove, a shedload of red wine and glorious food, happy days.

Rome boxing day to New Years Eve. It's quiet unlike the rest of the year and the weather is usually bright and crisp. It's out of season so generally cheaper and you could do it in style for £1500.

A nice cottage in the Uk with a wood burning fire?

York is lovely,Manchester is a great city.Dublin is overrated imo

Bath is gorgeous at Christmas—market, shops, sights, restaurants, spa—and pretty pretty pretty!

Angel0u

I really mean this kindly, in a few years your DD will be off building her own life and having Christmas adventures on her own and you and DH can enjoy each other’s company as much as you like then! 15 is such a precarious age, in some ways nearly a young woman but in others still a child, and I think you are setting her up for some hurt feelings here! Especially if she is an only child.
I also think you are setting yourself up for a massive anticlimax post wedding (if you 2 have been together for 15years plus then no doubt having a week away will be lovely and special but not because you are in newly wed bliss mode! You will be the same couple you are right now!)

Save it for the honeymoon which will be lovely because you can make it a luxury holiday and really enjoy it !

Just a different viewpoint for you to think about.

Am I alone in thinking that the holiday you take after getting married is your honeymoon and any after that are just holidays? Big or small, wherever you go after you get married will be your honeymoon, the place you visit in the spring will be a nicer & longer holiday but not a honeymoon because you've already been on your honeymoon after you got married

I've just read my post and hope I don't come across as bitchy. OP, I'd head for the lakes, Wales, York or another pretty place where you can cosy up and see the pretty sights

Iceland is a good shout,

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Or Malta

Malta

Or Tunisia

tunesia

I'd do Edinburgh. It's fabulous around the Christmas period

Sorry but I agree wth the others.

Pretty sad having your DD shipped off for christmas. Especially as an only child I would be wanting to make a good happy family christmas.

Being dumped at Granny's for Christmas sounds like a lovely memory for your children to cherish. Save the cash and use it for therapy later

They'll probably not even remember.

Ok just seen that DC is 15 .

I don’t think DH and I have ever had Christmas alone, just the 2 of us, but I’d walk over hot coals before spending Christmas Day without my DC out of choice.

What date is your wedding? Could you compromise and book somewhere very luxurious for 2 nights after that and still have Xmas with dd? Or she could join you after 2 nights? If you go for a spa hotel or somewhere like the Ickworth I'm sure she'd love it too

We got married at Christmas then had a minimoon in Edinburgh for nye as we couldn't go away for various reasons. Then I got up the duff and the honeymoon never happened...

All sounds a bit a farce to me tbh.

Saying that, I've always wanted to go to Salzburg at Christmas...it looks so romantic

Don’t understand this at all. “Special time”, “mini moon”, “never spent Christmas alone as a couple”. When one of you at least has a 15yo DC!

It's all a bit odd, not least because DD is referred to as DC.........

Fine if there are multiple children but it's weird for just 1 child, somehow really impersonal.

Also, 'we're skint but can afford £1,500 for a few days away even though I think it will be depressing' is more than a bit odd too.