A wedding and no honeymoon

Is this a growing trend?  I'm really curious because I haven't been to more than one or two weddings and I don't remember a whole "drive away to their honeymoon" moment.  Regardless of what the masses are doing, we are having a wedding with no honeymoon. Yet.

Originally, we were just going to go to a Justice of the Peace and get a signed paper saying we were married.  Then we moved to Colorado and we were common-law married there, so why bother with the formalities?  And then we moved back to Hawaii where all our family and friends were and we were no longer common-law married.  What to do?  Have a wedding, of course!

Now, when we were planning on going to the JOP, we had agreed that we'd spend whatever we would have spent on a wedding on our own extravagant honeymoon.  This was a great plan, since people spend so much money on their weddings, we thought it would be a great way to just celebrate and enjoy us.  Well, we forgot that we couldn't really plan that magical trip without someone to watch our son.  Phooey.  It looked like we wouldn't get our honeymoon at least for another two years, but it would behoove us if we were married sooner rather than later.  Oh, and all of our now nearby friends and family were getting antsy for a wedding.

We already have a child, we have been living together for almost 3 years now, so really, getting married is just a little behind schedule.  Everyone who was at the baby shower has been anticipating a wedding, but we didn't have one for them.  All kidding aside, I wanted to wear a pretty dress that I'll never have another reason to wear again.  Just saying.  Every woman wants an excuse to get dressed up and be a little fancy - being a stay-at-home mom with a fiancé who abhors social situations, I figured this might be one of the only chances I get.

Now, since we're having a wedding, we didn't plan a honeymoon.  It's just not an affordable option to us at this point in time.  We are having a wedding, though, which we hadn't originally planned.  However, the proposal of a honeymoon isn't completely off the table, either.  Basically, we didn't register for anything because we're living with family and we have limited space, so we don't need anything.  Instead, we opted to let people know that we're accepting donations to put towards a future honeymoon.

So in the end, we didn't sacrifice one for the other, we just found a way to postpone a honeymoon.  When I say "no honeymoon", I mean in the sense that we aren't getting whisked away to the airport immediately following our wedding, but maybe someday.  Someday when we can figure out a way to leave our son with a trusted family member and scrounge up some extra cash and vacation hours, we will have a honeymoon.  But for now, we have a wedding and no honeymoon plans. And we're ok with that.