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"Your honeymoon will be great because you&amp;amp;#8217;ll be far away from wedding stress with your shiny new husband. But these slip-ups can make the vacation less than stellar. Choosing a Site-Seeing Destination When You Just Want to Relax A friend and her hubby traipsed around Europe for their honeymoon&amp;amp;#133;until the bride collapsed into a puddle of tears on an Italian sidewalk halfway through the vacation. Why? Going from landmark to landmark on a schedule in a foreign city where you don&amp;amp;#8217;t speak the language can be stressful. Even if sitting on a beach doing nothing sounds just as stressful to you, bake some downtime into your honeymoon itinerary. On that friend&amp;amp;#8217;s advice, Paul and I saved Italy for our one-year wedding anniversary. Booking an All-Inclusive Hotel in a Destination Known for Great Food Another friend went with her honey to Aruba and stayed at what may be the sole all-inclusive hotel on the island. She wound up venturing outside of the resort one night to sample the local fare and was blown away. She regretted taking the hotel&amp;amp;#8217;s meal plan because their food wasn&amp;amp;#8217;t as good as the unaffiliated restaurants there. Cheaping Out on the Flights Flying first-class just isn&amp;amp;#8217;t an option for many honeymooners (it wasn&amp;amp;#8217;t for me!), but you shouldn&amp;amp;#8217;t feel like you&amp;amp;#8217;re roughing it for this celebratory vacation. A friend had a harrowing experience on a discount airline (I&amp;amp;#8217;m talking a rung or two below JetBlue) during her honeymoon, and she was shaken up for the rest of the trip. Another honeymooner I know chose to save some dough by taking flights with multiple connections. Sure enough, that bride and groom missed their last flight and lost a day of their honeymoon, chilling in an airport. Cheaping Out on the Hotel Room Sure, in site-seeing locales you won&amp;amp;#8217;t spend all that much time in your room. Everywhere else though, a nice room is worth a little splurge. No, you don&amp;amp;#8217;t need the honeymoon suite (what would you do with the extra room anyway? Wait, don&amp;amp;#8217;t answer that), but you do need enough space for your luggage and a comfy bed. Ambiance couldn&amp;amp;#8217;t hurt, either. After all, you will be having lots of sex on this vacation, won&amp;amp;#8217;t you? Taking Too Little or Too Much Time Off Yes, there really is such a thing as a too-long honeymoon, especially in a destination where there isn&amp;amp;#8217;t much to do. And of course, spending just a few days in a locale that took you a couple days to fly to isn&amp;amp;#8217;t worth your time or money. Leaving Too Soon After the Wedding There is something very romantic about exiting your wedding reception and piling into a limo that whisks you off to an airport. It&amp;amp;#8217;s also a bit unnerving because there are so many details to work out (stowing your luggage and passport in a safe place, assigning someone to take all of your wedding presents home, finding a place in the airport to change out of your wedding attire). Plus, you will be exhausted after your own wedding, not wanting to think about catching a flight. Paul and I left two days after our wedding, which still didn&amp;amp;#8217;t seem like enough time to decompress, open gifts, and pack for our trip. Any more mistakes you&amp;amp;#8217;d add to this list? What would ruin your honeymoon? Or is there nothing that could make your post-wedding trip a disaster? More About Honeymoons A Key Thing to Do Before Your Honeymoon What Guys Want and Don&amp;amp;#8217;t Want From Their Honeymoons 5 Things You Must Do on Your Honeymoon More Ways to Get Glamour: Chat with celebs, VIP fashion stars, beauty pros and more on our Facebook page! Visit Facebook.com/glamour for this month&amp;#x27;s schedule Download Glamour Magazine for your iPad--print subscribers, it&amp;#x27;s now part of your subscription plan! Enter the latest Glamour sweepstakes! Follow us on Twitter Photo: Jupiterimages "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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