Tips on how to plan your Dream Honeymoon on a Shoestring Budget
Posted by William Lark in Wednesday, July 07th 2010

Arranging a wedding can be awfully stressfull and leave you with little money to spend on your honeymoon. You honeymoon should be one of the most memorable trips of your life and you do not need to short change your experience because absence of funds. Read below on how to economize for your honeymoon so you may have the trip of your dreams.

1. Start with a Budget

The first step is to put together a budget of what you can realisitly spend on your honeymoon. Be precise with guess costs for hostels, food, activities and anything else you plan on doing.

2. Sacrifice

It may not be fun now but sacrificing now will enable you to have fun later. This can mean watching a DVD at home instead of going to the flicks. Cutting down on services or subscriptions ( cell phone, wire, facials, manicures, etc ). The little sacrifices add up quickly in your vacation fund.

3. Brown Bag it

Let’s face it, we all like to eat out. As good as it could be it does a job on our savings. The average couple spends $300 per month on eating out. That’s money that would easily be put into your honeymoon fund by eating out less or bringing a bag lunch to work. If you’ve got a tough time giving up eating use vouchers or check out local deals. ( buy one get one free dinners ).

4. EBay

a great way to start your new life together is out with the old and in with the new, why don’t you make money cleaning out your stuff. EBay has become the ultimate site to sell your possessions and earn cash. If you do not want to deal with the trouble of eBay there is always the old fashion way, a garage sale.

5. Reward Cards

Reward cards are a good way to let visa cards pay you back. In the months prior to your wedding, use a Visa card that amasses points ( most well-liked are cash or travel rewards ) for everything you can. It should not be tricky to quickly accumulate points with all your marriage expenses. Once the reward points have piled up you can cash them in for plane tickets, hotel rooms, gift certificates or cash.

What you simply learned about Honeymoons is just the beginning. To get more ideas, read stories, check out pictures and videos go to http://www.HoneymoonNation.com or check out my squidoo Honeymoon Nation.

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Jane Atkins is the creator of http://www.HoneymoonNation.com, the #1 site on the web for Honeymoon Ideas. Check out Honeymoon blogs forums, pictures,videos and more.

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