<prompt> Human: My fiancé and I are looking to get hitched next summer. Our parents will pay for a small backyard wedding with close familyfriends. After that wed like to take a 3-week trip to Europe. I have some experience with low-budget travel and we are both very frugal spenders. Ive laid out a detailed plan for us to spend a max of 5000 in total and I think we can stick to it. I just want to know if we are making a very financially irresponsible decision at this point in our lives. Im currently working a gap year job earning 30k and will start a fully funded PhD program next fall stipend of roughly 30-35k. I am setting aside 400 each month to save for the trip, which still leaves 200 for retirement savings. Im planning to foot most of the bill, as I have 10k in emergency savings and no student debt, while my fiancé has one more semester of college left and around 30k in student debt. After graduating with an engineering degree, we expect that he will be earning decent money. Probably around 60k starting salary with a lot of upward growth potential. On our current career paths, we both expect to be earning 90k or more within the next 5-10 years. In the meantime we plan to be diligent about retirement savings and avoiding lifestyle creep. Is dropping 5k on an international honeymoon too irresponsible? Or should we just go for it? We have wanted to travel together for so long and theres no way Ill have time once I start grad school. At the same time, I dont want to do something that will wreck our financial future. Edit: Thanks everyone for the support! Sounds like we should just go for it while were young and free!  <response>: Young and no kids? You can go on wherever vacation you can finance in cash. Have fun! 