Agafay Desert Magic Sunset Dinner & Live Show
Oia: Couple photoshoot with 30 edited Photos
Bali Hai Sunset Dinner Cruise
You get one honeymoon. These are the days worth flying for.
Which sunset cruise seats two at their own table and which seats two hundred. What a private boat really costs off Amalfi. Whether the photographer is included or another hundred dollars. Reviews of the days couples book for the trip of a lifetime.
Five honeymoon days worth planning the rest of the trip around.
A table under lanterns at the edge of a desert, a deck at golden hour, an hour with a photographer before the lanes fill. What each costs for two, and what the couples who booked it say.
- 01The desert tableAgafay Desert Magic Sunset Dinner & Live ShowLanterns, low cushions and dinner in the Agafay at dusk, an hour out of Marrakech. Ask for a table at the edge of the camp, away from the stage.
- 02The deck at golden hourBali Hai Sunset Dinner CruiseOut of Benoa before the light goes, dinner served upstairs. The cheapest way to make one evening feel enormous.
- 03The morning photographsOia: Couple photoshoot with 30 edited PhotosAn hour in Oia before the lanes fill, thirty edited frames back. Take the first slot: by nine the blue domes belong to everybody.
04Dinner with nobody elsePrivate Romantic Dinner on the NileA table laid for two on the Nile and no second table behind it. This is what private is supposed to mean and rarely does.
05The ceremonyLas Vegas Wedding at The Little Vegas ChapelVows on the Strip with the licence run and the photographs in the package. Couples book it to marry and, ten years on, to do it again.
What a honeymoon day actually costs, from a beach picnic to a private charter.
Every experience on the site grouped by price. Read them per head unless the row says group: a $300 charter split between two of you is $150 each, and a $150 seat is not.
Sunset sails, desert dinners under lanterns, spa hours and the beach picnic that photographs better than anything else on this page.
The standard honeymoon evening: a dinner cruise with a table of your own, an hour with a photographer, the small boat that takes six.
Helicopters, boats chartered for two, proposal packages with a photographer waiting on the next terrace, and the ceremony itself.
The sunset dinner cruise is the honeymoon default evening. Some of them seat two hundred.
Every honeymoon port sells one and they are not the same night out. A candlelit boat on the Danube seats couples two by two. A Waikiki dinner boat seats a ballroom with a floor show. The difference is the deck plan, and it hides in the small print rather than the photographs.
Private, for two, exclusive: three words on a honeymoon listing, three different prices.
Private usually means your own guide, not your own boat. For two means the price is quoted for a pair and the table may still be shared. Exclusive use is the one that empties the deck, and it is the line worth paying for on the night you will keep the photographs of. Before you book, find the group size, the pickup list and whether dinner is served at a table of your own.
Hawaii, Las Vegas, Miami: the honeymoon the flight is usually already booked for.
More honeymoon days on this site happen in the USA than anywhere else, and they fall into three kinds. Pick the evening first, then the island.
Six places built for the fortnight after the wedding.
A caldera with a photographer on every terrace, a Strip that will marry you this week, a desert an hour from a souk, an island that floats breakfast into your pool, a river with a table on it and a beach with dinner on the sand. Six starting points, and the best day for two in each.
Three things couples book once and look at forever.
Good dinners and sunset boats exist everywhere. A photographer hidden on the next terrace while you kneel, a chapel that hands over a licence and Elvis in the same hour, and a breakfast floated into a private pool do not.
The Proposal Package
The photographer arrives an hour early and waits somewhere neither of you will look. Someone else carries the flowers, the ring stays in a pocket, and the first frame is taken from thirty metres away before either of you knows the shoot has started. Rome, Paris and Santorini sell most of them. The ones worth the money include a scouted spot, a rehearsal walk and a plan for what happens if it rains, because the timing cannot be left to luck when there is only one attempt.
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- 2Romantic Proposal PhotoShoot★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 43 reviews
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The Chapel Wedding
Las Vegas will marry you the same week you decide. The licence office downtown stays open late, the chapels run on the half hour, and the package normally covers the officiant, the photographs and a witness for couples who turned up as two. They are booked as first weddings, as elopements and as tenth-anniversary rewrites, and the Elvis version costs less than the flowers would at home.
- 1Elvis-Themed Graceland Chapel Wedding or Vow Renewal★★★★★★★★★★ 4.8 · 512 reviews
- 2Elvis Themed Wedding or Vow Renewal at Graceland Wedding Chapel★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 456 reviews
- 3Las Vegas Wedding at The Little Vegas Chapel★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 443 reviews
The Floating Breakfast
Ubud worked out that a tray of fruit and pastries floated into a private pool photographs like nothing else, and every villa on the ridge followed. The good ones give you the pool to yourselves for the morning and a swing over the valley afterwards. Ask what the villa does when it rains, because between November and March it will, usually just after the tray goes in.
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An hour with a photographer is the cheapest thing you will still be looking at in ten years.
Sixty to a hundred and fifty for the hour in most places, thirty to fifty edited frames back inside the week. Take the first slot of the morning for empty lanes, soft light and nobody else in the frame. Ask how many images are included before you ask about the dress.
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The honeymoon days booked more than any others.
Every honeymoon review →The gondola, the Seine, the Agafay, the Danube. What earns each of them the slot, and what it costs the two of you.
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Romantic Venice: 30 Minute Gondola Ride with Serenade
Join a shared gondola near Piazza Santa Maria del Giglio for about 30 minutes on Venice’s Grand Canal and smaller canals. A singer performs from one boat in the flotilla, while you pass Peggy Guggenheim’s terrace, Accademia Bridge, Santa Maria della Salute, and old palaces.
From · $66
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Romantic Cruise with 3-course Dinner on Seine River
from $94
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Nile Sunset Dinner Cruise, Show & Optional Transfer
from $33
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Candlelit Dinner River Cruise with Live Music
from $129
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Budapest Danube River Candlelit Dinner Cruise with Live Music
from $133
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Agafay Desert Magic Sunset Dinner & Live Show
from $22
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Agafay Desert Sunset Dinner with Live Show
from $27
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Volcano and Hot Springs Sunset Dinner Cruise
from $106
Italy sells the honeymoon most couples had pictured before they booked one.
A gondola with a serenade, a photographer on the Rialto at first light, a boat for two off the Amalfi coast and a table where nobody comes to move you on. Venice, Rome and the coast carry most of it. The Tuscan cellars carry the evenings.
- 1Romantic Venice: 30 Minute Gondola Ride with Serenadefrom $66
- 2Romantic Shared Gondola Serenade on the Grand Canalfrom $55
- 3Romantic Photoshoot for Couples
Marrying on the trip, or saying it again ten years later.
Santorini does the ceremony on a terrace over the caldera with a photographer already booked into the price. Las Vegas does it in twenty minutes and throws in the drive. Vow renewals outsell first weddings almost everywhere, and they need no paperwork at all.
Four honeymoon bookings that will not wait until you land.
Most of a honeymoon can be arranged from the hotel the night before. These four cannot. They run on licence offices, one photographer per sunrise, calm air and a boat that only holds the two of you.
- 01Elvis-Themed Graceland Chapel Wedding or Vow RenewalThe licence has to be issued before anyone can marry you, and the chapels sell the good half-hour slots weeks out.
- 02Secret Proposal Photoshoot in Rome + ReelOne photographer, one sunset, one spot. The golden-hour slots go first and there is no second attempt at a surprise.
- 03Romantic Sunrise Balloon Tour in MajorcaBalloons fly at first light and only in calm air, so a cancelled morning is rebooked into a week that is already full.
- 04Private Island of Capri Boat Tour for CouplesA boat that takes two takes two. There is no standing room left to sell you the afternoon you ask.
Las Vegas marries more couples in an afternoon than most cities manage in a season.
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The licence office stays open late, the chapels run to a timetable, and the package normally covers the officiant, the photographs and the drive. What separates them is the room, the length of the slot and whether there is a queue behind you.
Chapel, licence, photographs
Collect the licence downtown before the slot and arrive twenty minutes early. The cheaper packages cover the room and a photographer for the vows only. The dearer ones add the car, the flowers and a longer shoot afterwards.
Vows with a soundtrack
Graceland Wedding Chapel has been doing this since the sixties and plays it straight. Elvis walks you down the aisle, sings two numbers and signs as a witness. Couples renewing vows book it more often than first-timers do.
What to book after the aisle
A helicopter over the Strip, a car out to the sign, dinner high enough to see the desert go black. The ceremony takes half an hour. The evening is the part worth planning.
By kind of evening, day or ceremony
The shape of a honeymoon week, one booking at a time.
Day one
The reset
The photographs
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