Why you shouldn't go on your honeymoon only ten years after your wedding.

A well-planned honeymoon is just as important as the rest of the wedding. Don't ignore it as just another trip together to somewhere. A honeymoon is much more than just another outing.

Let's put it this way : After weeks, months (and sometimes even years) of hectic wedding preparations, the honeymoon is the ultimate sweet ending. The sweet ending to singlehood, that is. It's the icing on the wedding cake. It is the gentle transition between announcing to the whole world that you're getting married, and actually living as a married couple. A honeymoon eases you into a future of life together.

Now that you've agreed with me on how important a honeymoon is, you really would want it to go as well as can be yeah?

Great Tips to Planning an Unforgettable Honeymoon!

Tip 1: Agree on what you both want to do

First step to planning a successful honeymoon: agree on your objectives. By this we mean, how do you want to spend all that honeymoon time? Do you want to

1) be lost in each other's eyes?

2) see the most exotic places together?

3) shop like mad for your new home?

How you both decide you want to spend that honeymoon time will vastly affect the choice of location. Say, if you both chose option 1, forget about going to exotic places. You'll be so busy gazing lovingly into each other's eyes that it doesn't matter if a dinosaur strolled past you in deepest amazonian forests. You'll be just as happy in Rasa Sentosa, trust me. Of course you could be just as happy at home, but it'll be painful for the parents/ siblings/ family/ pet who's sharing the apartment.

On the same note, if you both agree you want to sightsee, choose locations that will give you an "eyeful". Similarly for shopping interests, choose urban locations like Hong Kong for those great shops.

Tip 2: Decide on duration

How long both of you can afford to be away from work or home is also important in choosing the type of honeymoon. If you can only be away for a few days, no point going to somewhere far like Europe or U.S. and spend 2 days cooped up in the plane when you're only going to be there for under a week.

Tip 3: Admit if you're a control freak

Now if you're a control freak, be honest and submit yourself to a tour package. Why? Because if you're a control freak and you're on a free-n-easy tour, you'll probably be spending more time trying to make things go your way than in spending time with your better half. If you're on a planned tour, quell that control freak in you by telling yourself that you can't change anything, so you might as well go along and enjoy. Yes, it is that simple.

So with these 3 all-important tips, how do you put together that perfect honeymoon?

Putting it all together

Suppose you can both only be away for a few days, you don't care about shopping nor sightseeing (gazing into each other's eyes is NOT sightseeing) and one of you is a control freak.... take a cruise to nowhere! Don't have to spend hours commuting on planes, and no distracting shopping/sightseeing coz you're simply going nowhere. And since there's nothing for you to plan, no hotel bookings, no travelling between cities, no chance for that control freak to appear! Simply marvellous.

Or go to one of the nearby beach resorts.... Phuket, Langkawi, Bintan...hey, even Sentosa! Why not? Whatever you decide on, just remember this: A honeymoon is precious couple time. It's your first steps into the future together. As long as you have each other, you don't need five-star hotels or first-class room service.

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