Our Wedding: Picking a Honeymoon

Picking our honeymoon location was difficult. It was one of the last real decisions we made! Originally, we wanted to go to Walt Disney World in Florida.  Jackson had never been, and I hadn't been since Senior year of High School:

Post Splash Mountain, Silly Band Wearing, Good ole days. (circa, 2010) We used their online tool to figure out how much we would need to save, and we about passed out.  We didn't want to spend more than $1,000 on our honeymoon. Frugal and far fetched, we know.  Disney was 225% of our budget, and that didn't include transportation to Disney. ouch.
So we started writing down requirements for our honeymoon in hopes of typing them all in Google and finding our ideal location: -Warm in February (whose idea was that?!) -Within 8 hours of driving (I don't fly yet) -Walking City (we're cheap on gas) -Historic (we're nerds) -Enough to do but not overwhelming (we are easily distracted and like our naps). -Close to the beach, but not on the beach (we're pale) Insert beautiful Savannah, Georgia. 

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(via) In pictures, we fell in love. It was southern, old, and beautiful. We read everything we could get our hands on.  We read about the bed and breakfasts and learned that's the only way to stay in Savannah.  We read about the fact that it is the second most haunted city on the nation and made lists of the ghost tours we had to take.  We read about the history and made a list of stops we had to make along our on-and-off-all-day trolley tour.  Lastly, we made a plan to spend a day at the beach.   So here's the deal... if you have a small honeymoon budget, you can still have the honeymoon of your dreams.  We came back and did our figuring and our hotel, food, gas, souvenirs, etc. were all under $1,000.  Don't let a frugal budget get you down! Next week I'll recap our beautiful honeymoon week in Savannah. :)