Honeymoon right after wedding weekend?

I would suggest leaving it until the Monday/Tuesday- As you mentioned, you'll be tired and hungover, but also you're just adding stress; Having to organise the packing and planning before hand, in addition to the lead up to the big day! It would be easier to allocate Sunday as a day to rest and prepare.
Also, chances are you'll just drive away; bit annoying trying to arrange a send off!!

To think my parents had their Honeymoon in Bray, imagine the hangover on train on way!:D

Anyway enjoy OP.

I don't know who you think will be making an effort to get up Sunday morning to wave you off, unless you're having a huge 2-day wedding and everyone's staying at the hotel and you're leaving the morning after.
Usually if you have a send off like that it's sometime right after the wedding, e.g. after dinner and first dance...
We had Friday wedding and left on a Monday for our honeymoon. We met up with some more friends on Saturday evening. Spent Sunday morning reading our wedding cards, which was a wonderful way to tie us over to the honeymoon after the wedding high. Then evening packing and putting things away before leaving on Monday.

Married on the Saturday, recovered on the Sunday, flew out on Monday. Got married abroad and flew off from there on h/moon

Well tis up to ye, depends what ye want.

I do kinda like the idea heading away with all the people waving and just married on the back of the car..

Was thinking of what to do with our own and at the time I was saying yeah defo head away straight after but then was thinking I would like to stay like said above and enjoy things with family and friends that have travelled over enjoy the celebration while it lasts..

If you have no one travelling far then your sorted head away

ABajaninCork wrote: »

You need a bit of time to get the suits back, store away the wedding gifts and get the cert in to register the marriage. Oh - and you need time to process the fact you're now a Mrs!

I think this is something you can get your bridesmaid or best man to do if they don't mind. The only thing we had to do after the wedding was read our cards, get our bags and go on honeymoon.
Any gift money was lodged by our best man, he returned the suits and his wife kindly returned the marriage registration form and even ordered us the marriage cert so we'd have it on our return.
Take a day to chill out though, put your feet up and look forward to your honeymoon.

Definitely a preference thing. Thankfully my best man had been married himself a few months previous, so he understood the gravitas of making sure the paperwork went off. He had the envelope prepared and with him at the ceremony. Immediately after the ceremony he went off to a local copy shop (we were in the city) and had 2 copies made before popping the originals into the envelope and posting them.

If it was a case that the paperwork would have to stay overnight in a hotel room or you know your family can be flakey about this stuff, then yeah I would be inclined to hold onto it and send it off yourself.

On the honeymoon, definitely give yourselves a day or two break between the ceremony and the trip. Same as some others, we did the wedding on the Saturday, a small family get together the next night and then took the Monday to open presents (and bring them to the bank!), pack and do those little things that need doing. Heading off straight from wedding to honeymoon means that you have to co-ordinate a lot of people to dump your excess baggage onto (i.e. wedding dress, suits, presents, flowers, etc etc etc) and trust that they'll take care of it until you get back.

Also as mentioned above, you've a bit of a romantic notion in your head about being waved off
Nobody is getting up the morning after a BBQ to wave you off except your mammies

Married on Thursday. Left for the airport at 5am after the wedding. Slept on the plane. All good. But I was only 23.....dont know if I could handle that now!