Wedding Honeymoon

What is the origin of the honeymoon? What is it? Why are you taking or not taking one?

Let's look at the origin of the honeymoon and where it came from and how it has evolved into today's big wedding get away.

It was only a mere 4,000 years ago in a place called "Babylon" that the honeymoon came to "bee" - pun intended! Babylon if you are not familiar was the capital of a small city in Mesopotamia, named Babylonia; located now near a town call Hilla on the eastern bank of the Euphrates river. Babylon was founded at the end of the 3rd millennium BC.

It was at this time that the bride's father would give his new son-in-law all the "mead" - honey beer that he could drink for the first month after the wedding. Because the Babylonian calendar was based on the lunar period, it was called honey month, which is today what we call the honeymoon.

How wonderful if you can get away for a month and the brides father will ply you with beer for a month! In most cases, today couples opt for a week or two of get away time to celebrate their new marital bond.

With the constraints of budgets these days, you may need some help in how to save money on your honeymoon.