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a vacation engineered to convince two exhausted people they made the right call.
means The trip or period of romantic happiness immediately following a wedding, before everyday reality sets in.
from A 16th-century English compound of 'honey' (the sweetness of new love) and 'moon' (a month, or a lunar cycle). The bittersweet implication, often noted by early writers, was that the affection waxed full and then waned like the moon — sweet now, but fading. The notion that it referred to a literal month of drinking honey-wine (mead) is a charming folk story with no solid evidence behind it.
- sweet origin
- named for honey wine drunk for a lunar month
- waning glow
- the moon part hints the sweetness fades fast
- kidnap roots
- some link it to hiding stolen brides
- big spend
- couples average over four thousand dollars on it
- phase term
- now means any blissful early stretch of anything
niagara falls — destination for newlyweds since 1800s, peaks at 30% of visitors being honeymooners
maldives — luxury honeymoon capital with 500+ resorts, majority clientele are newly married couples
paris france — attracts estimated 2 million honeymooners annually to the city of love