The ULTIMATE Wedding Gift

Immediately after becoming engaged, my parents told me what our big wedding gift would be. I knew for years they would do this, because they did it for my sister. They would give us one of their timeshares for our honeymoon.

Timeshares are awesome! You don't have to eat out every meal. You get awesome amenities! It takes the cost of going to awesome, cool places affordable. So the only question left was, "Where do we want to go?"

B didn't really understand how affordable timeshares make a vacation and so he wanted to do something low key, such as, Yellowstone and seeing the Redwood Forest. Let me tell you peeps, that is not my idea of a honeymoon. I'd love to go there myself, but I see it more as a family vacation to do with our children once we are married. Right?

My mind quickly went to more romantic and exotic spots in the world. I have always wanted to go to Hawaii. I really want to see the volcano actively spewing out lava. How many places can you see that and how often does life give you at least one week off to do whatever and go where ever you want? This is where we needed to go.

Mount Kilauea

Hawaii

I stressed Hawaii. B fought against it saying it was too expensive. You see, B doesn't have a regular job. He makes enough to pay his part of the bills, but if we didn't live together, he'd be struggling big time! So, he was worried. I, however, was not worried. I am a firm believer in "where there is a will, there is a way." My mom drilled that into my head growing up. I asked him if he didn't want to go to Hawaii and that wasn't the case. He'd love to, but the money was holding him back.

First, I looked up airfare. This was where our biggest chunk of money was going to go. I found them starting over $900. Not too bad for Hawaii. My mom told me she had enough frequent flier miles for one round trip ticket that would be expiring before she could use them so we could have them. Yay!! Since mom had to buy the ticket with her card and B and I wanted to be on the same flight next to each other, the tickets had to be purchased together. I asked her if B and I could pay her back over some time for the second ticket. She offered a deal, B goes to the farm when he doesn't have work and works off his $1000. Sweet!

At this point we know a location and we know how we are going to pay to get there, so the next step, which island?

Were you worried about affording the honeymoon of your dreams?