My fiancé and I are both midlevel associates. No student debt, no kids, only a mortgage. How much did you spend on your honeymoon? We’re not looking to make partner and will go in house in the next year or two. Just looking for a benchmark/reference point here.

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Probably spent around $10k-$12k all-in on a 3 week trip to southern Europe. Didn’t really have a conscious budget in mind but we didn’t spring for anything super extravagant (e.g. normal hotels and restaurants, no resorts).

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20k but we were early in careers and nowhere near your income. If you love travel, I think 40k is completely reasonable for a honeymoon. Ours was a big trip and remembered fondly many years later. Make it different.

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Ball out in southern France. $20-30k. Check out French Riviera advice on Reddit in fattttravel sub.

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This is the one. The regular hotels in southern France is shitty. Spring for the nice places

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Similar situation, we usually spend $20kish on trips including our honeymoon

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25k ish pre mortgage and kid - we were mid levels at the time

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$30k

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I think ours was around 25k. Spent 2 weeks in Greece and had a blast.

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las vegas , perfect setting for a wedding too

I’m not planning to spend more than $10k and probably to China. Depends on your travel style. I don’t like resorts and prefer small boutiques. Would rather go to Mongolia, Botswana, Ethiopia, China than any place in Europe (culturally too familiar and go once a year already).

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