Honeymoon Horror Stories

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We've done horror wedding stories, but what about honeymoon ones?

A friend just got back from her two week honeymoon in London & Venice, staying at gorgeous, expensive hotels. Well, in London, they were riding one of the double decker buses that stopped short, they were both thrown forward, the new groom threw himself in front of his bride to protect her, and broke his collarbone and arm. They head to Venice, where on the second day, she ends up in the hospital having a miscarriage. She's 40, had been told she could never get pregnant, had no idea she was pregnant, and was told she must have bed rest for at least a week. They're now back home, and said they hope this is not indicative of their future together. (They have kept their sense of humor.)

It's one of the worst honeymoon stories I've heard, although I know there must be others. Anyone want to share?
 
DH and I didn't have a honeymoon, but DD's was a disaster. She had wanted me to plan it for them. Because she knows that I love to plan trips and leave no detail uncovered. Well her DH wanted them to plan it together. They leave for their honeymoon a couple days after the wedding and head to Miami and the Keys. For some strange reason they wait until late in the day to head down. They get to the hotel (a fleabag at best), check in and there are (to put it politely) ladies of the evening almost outside of their room. Needless to say they hightail it back to the office check out and search for another hotel. Poor SIL had to hear for almost the rest of the trip "You should have let mom plan our trip."
 
Mines not that bad...but there were problems.

We went on a cruise...got placed in a handicap accessible cabin with roll-in shower that flooded in showers in excess of 2 minutes. Our stateroom was flooded twice. We learned how to shower VERY quickly.

Dining room. They placed us at a table for 10. Okay--not a big deal, I'm an extrovert, I can handle this and make the most of it. On Day 3 of a cruise a computer error resulted in us being located to the next table and them having to pull up an extra chair. Okay--that I just couldn't deal with. Go to the Matre D'. Who tells me quite abruptly that he had other problems and I would have to wait. And I start crying (a little high strung at the time!). So after a 10 minute wait..the Matre D has "just the perfect table for us....a table for two with a view of the water".

We are escorted to said table with a view to find it is a table in front of a huge metal structure (well, we wouldn't want a deck to collapse over my stinkin' view ;))...so said view is really only a view if I lean over the table to peak out the window that hubby is sitting more in front of than next to and he do the same for me. The Matre D' insisted we have a bottle of champagne. Well we had one the night before and it put us to sleep so we refused. He insisted. We refused again. He INSISTED. Good grief--take no for an answer buddy! We didn't say that, but those were our thoughts. The champagne was brought despite our protest.

Well the Matre D' forgot to mention one thing--we are now located in a section with lots of families and lots of children. Now mind you I don't mind this--but this will become a problem on the next night. The table adjacent to us had a lovely family--husband, wife, 3 kids...the youngest would periodically be sleeping through dinner..VERY cute. What was NOT so cute--was the fact that mom thought a cruise, AT DINNER....was the PERFECT time to instruct her, I would guess 4 or 5 year old...how to do her OWN insulin shots. Now mind you--I can understand the need to administer at the dinner table if it had to be within a certain timeframe or at a specific time...but she needs to teach her daughter at home. I have a MONSTER fear of shots..to this very day...requires special handling to prevent me from passing out. Her mother was loud and vocal and descriptive in her instructions that could have caused me to pass out. So every night--I had to look like a baby as I cowered my head on the table and covered my ears so that I did not have to be privvy to information I did not need and save myself a trip to the infirmary.

Then the next night--a Magic Show was on board and we really wanted to see it and get their early to get good seats. All is going to just about planned until the magical light flash that called the waiters and bus boys away for their little entertainment. They had a cake for our honeymoon that I saw when I stepped away during dinner. And we held out for as long as we could. Once they left for their song and dance routine (which I do usually enjoy) after many people had already gotten their cakes, we decided we had waited long enough and left...almost. Just our toes remained in the dining room as we exited and our waiter "caught" us. He asked where we were going and we told him to the magic show. He MADE us go sit down. Then they did the LONGEST version of the Macarena EVER. We were steamed. They MADE us dance (trying to make it fun--hard to do when you are MIFFED at these people holding you hostage!!!). Then they brought the stupid cake--and with the eyes of many many children GAWKING at us...insisted we kiss. We said no....of course they INSISTED!!!

We made it to the magic show in time.

We complained to our travel agent and cruise line upon return home. The cruise line sent us $250 to go to a romantic dinner and a discount voucher towards a future cruise. Our travel agent did the same. Both vouchers could be used together. DH said--but unfortunately--that means we'd have to sail with THEM again. So we never used them.
 
a co-worker and her husband got married at a beautiful casino hotel in reno. they stay one night and take a flight to hawaii the next day. the 3rd day in hawaii the hotel manager tells them their credit card has been declined and they need to provide a new one or find alternate lodging. they only brought one card with them (with a high limit that should have more than covered everything, the credit card company says the charges were done during their stay at the casino hotel they were at in reno-mostly cash advances so no resolution for the time being), so they start calling family in california to find someone who will let them use their credit card for the rest of their stay.

long story short-an employee who worked at the hotel/casino had worked out a scam with someone in accounting. they would steal credit card numbers, do cash advances over the days of someones stay but not run them through the credit card company for a few days (back dating the charges to align with the stay). it took MONTHS to resolve and left a very dark cloud over their honeymoon memories.
 

A roommate in college was dating a guy who was previously married. Two or three days into his honeymoon, he went to do an errand away from the all inclusive resort they were at (just getting something in town that the resort didn't have). While he was gone, his wife picked up another guy and he returned to see his new wife off with another man (and not in an innocent way). To me, that topped all stories I ever heard! I felt so bad for that guy and he had been warned she was a cheater. He did annul the marriage... I just think that would totally suck!
 
I had a beautiful cruise planned for our honeymoon, the best part it was free, my reward for spending two years working for Holland America. I was very excited!
But then my dad got sick and all the focus went to taking care of him, he died right before our wedding :(
We really werent in the mood to celebrate anything. we had our wedding which I barely remember but we didnt have a honeymoon until our 10th anniversary. That was wonderful though and made up for missing our first one :)
 
We were so broke when we got married that we literally had to open the envelopes from the wedding in the hotel on our wedding night to take out the cash to bring with us. Thankfully, my mom had spread the word that money would be the perfect wedding gift!!! (We had already paid for the flights and big stuff, it was just the spending money that we didn't have).

My uncle gave us, as his gift, use of their condo in St. Thomas and we were planning on shopping and cooking our meals there (again, the money issue). The one grocery store there was really gross and we never did buy anything except ice cream. So, aside from a few dinners out, we lived on ice cream for a week.

Ah, the good old days......
 
We locked our housekeys in the house in our haste to get to the rehearsal dinner and ended up having to pay 150 bucks to a locksmith at 12am the night we got home from the honeymoon a week and a half later. Not fun! :mad:
 
A friend and her DH went to the Bahamas and went scuba diving. His brand new wedding ring slipped off while he was swimming (I guess he wasn't used to wearing it ;) ) When he reached down to catch it, a moray eel (who had been attracted by the glint of the metal) darted out and grabbed it............along with the tip of her DH's finger as he reached for it! So, he ended up getting stitches, antibiotics and pain killers from the ships doctor as well as permenantly losing the tip of his finger AND losing his wedding ring! I don't think my friend will ever forget her honeymoon.
 
swanmom said:
A friend and her DH went to the Bahamas and went scuba diving. His brand new wedding ring slipped off while he was swimming (I guess he wasn't used to wearing it ;) ) When he reached down to catch it, a moray eel (who had been attracted by the glint of the metal) darted out and grabbed it............along with the tip of her DH's finger as he reached for it! So, he ended up getting stitches, antibiotics and pain killers from the ships doctor as well as permenantly losing the tip of his finger AND losing his wedding ring! I don't think my friend will ever forget her honeymoon.

Mine is no where near the above message (about getting a finger taken off!) but we were honeymooning in Tahiti and DH and I went snorkling. His wedding ring came off also. We didn't notice until later in the day and we went ack looking for it but never found it. I told my DH I guess he didn't really want to be married after all. We bought a new one when we got home.
 
It wasn't really all that bad at the time, but I got pneumonia on our Honeymoon. Got married in December and went to Disney over Christmas. I think the stress was too much. I kept pressing on though!
 
My boyfriend's best friend, Sean, went to Bermuda... ate something new ... and went down with food poisoning so severe that his wife (5'4", 120?) had to drag him (6'3", 220) to the bathroom and then position him on the toilet. He wound up spending two days in the hospital before they flew home. There are only a few pictures, mostly of him, pale-faced, laying in the fetal position on a beach chair. Brutal.
 
I had a yeast infection during ours. Sorta put a damper on things, if you know what I mean. :love2:
 
My husband also lost his wedding band on our honeymoon. We were swimming in the gulf, and he raised his hand to throw something, and it flew off. It was actually a few minutes before he noticed it!:) Needless to say, we had to make an extra stop on the way back into town.;)
Kim
 
Sonya said:
It wasn't really all that bad at the time, but I got pneumonia on our Honeymoon. Got married in December and went to Disney over Christmas. I think the stress was too much. I kept pressing on though!

We got married right after Christmas, and my DH got bronchitis halfway through our WDW honeymoon (that missed pneumonia by a hair). He spent 3 days in bed and I spent three days going back and forth to Roaring Forks getting juice and soup. Thank god the walk-in med center took our health insurance and the pharmacy took our presciption card!
 
My sister and BIL stayed in a cabin in the mountains for their honeymoon. My sister got up in the middle of the night the first night to use the potty, and before she was finished, her new hubby came rushing into the bathroom yelling about a "big bird". It turns out there was a bat in their cabin. It ended up being a big thing. At first, the cabin owners didn't care about their bat. Then they sent someone out to catch it, but it couldn't be caught. Then they decided that staying in a cabin with a bat in it was a health risk, so they moved them to a cabin that wasn't as nice and hadn't been cleaned in quite some time. They ended up just leaving rather than taking the new cabin, but the people wouldn't give them their money back.

When they came home, my sister (who's a nurse) was telling people about their adventure at the ER where she worked. A doctor who was listening said that they needed to be treated for rabbies because the bat had charged at my BIL. So my sister and BIL ended up doing the series of rabbies shots, and my sister got quite sick from them. She actually got so sick from the second shot in the series that she had to spend a day on the phone hunting down an older form of the shot that used a different suspension medium because they couldn't complete the series with the medication they had been using because it would have been too dangerous.

They also had to hire an attourney to get their money back from the nights they didn't use at the cabin. They had tried disputing the charge with the credit card company, but American Express said that you shouldn't be surprised to find a bat in a cabin in the mountains. :confused3 (They weren't upset that there was a bat but rather that they couldn't get the money back for the nights they didn't use when the owners couldn't offer comperable lodgings.) It was about 2 years after their honeymoon when the cabin owners finally settled with them.
 
We planned our wedding & honeymoon for 1 1/2 yrs--
the reception place went bankrupt--no refund for us, of course & we had to reschedule the church & get a new reception site--which all turned out perfect.
but...
We were to be married the end of October (just celebrated our 19th anniversary this past Tuesday!) prime leaf peeping season. Our wonderful early 18th century inn was all booked a year in advance. About a month before the happy occassion I read an article in Yankee Magazine about the most haunted houses in New England...guess which house is numero uno!!! :scared: I call & am reassured that the ghost is 'nice' & does not frequent our intended room. I cannot get reservations for any lovely old inns at this point so I buck up. Our wedding day was vividly beautiful. Later that night, on our way to Connecticut it began to lightening, got windy & a little rainy. Well, this old place is all off by itself & no one, not one living soul, is staying there :eek: just the new DH & I & this is prime season, oh YIKES! the caretaker--yes, caretaker!--shows us around the huge old house & new DH & he ask me to stay in our room until they can bring the suitcases up---YEAH! SURE! Please, Louise, I've seen this one before. No way, I go down with them, stand in the drizzle, in my beautiful going away outfit, replete with antique broad brimmed hat, gloves & suede shoes. On our way to the room the caretaker, a fellow of few words, asks us if we'd like to tour the haunted room???!!! It is right across the hall from us. It shares a wall with us. Caretaker leaves.the wind picks up, the tree branches are actually making that scrapping sound at the ancient glass windows, lightening.
Oh, I am awake all night & not with connubial bliss! Next morning we go up to the 'big' house for breakfast--all the other visitors are staying up there. The owner & her daughter now regale us with stories of how the cat won't go into that room, & the dog, who faithfully follows her everywhere, whines, tucks his tail 'tween his legs when she goes to the'old' house--
And we are booked for 3 nights--
May I tell you I slept in the car during alot of our day?
No, I didn't see anything. the noises could have been the trees rubbing against the windows & old homes do creak a great deal, but when DH suggested we might go back there...
Next year we celebrated our 1st anniversary at another old inn, totally in a different town... I will not celebrate anymore anniversaries at ancient B & Bs!


Jean, a big wienie!
 
My dh and I planned and paid for our wedding by ourselves, which is a miracle by itself. We were living in Tn and having the wedding in AR (where I'm from) and trying to get people from MI and IN (where he is from) to you wedding. Well everyone on my dh's side besides his mother were flying in obviously but no not my MIL. NOt going to to happen; I offered to pay and everything but no not even taking the Grey Hound. She insisted that my Matt come from TN up to pick her up in Valpo, IN and then drive herself and his little brother to AR. Well he did because it was important to him but of course if he drove her there how does she get back? You are correct, we spent the next two days on the road with my MIL wanting to listen to Enya and his little brother pulling my hair.

We get to Valpo and dump them off and by this time it's Christmas Eve and we don't want to be on the road so we are off to dh's grandparents for Christmas Eve family gathering. The next day, Christmas day, we get up and his grandparents were like "thanks for coming, do you need help getting your bags to the car?" So we hit the road again but this time on Christmas day.We ate dinner in a truckstop and finally got home. We had plane reservations for Disney Dec 27.

We get to the airport off to FL just fine no hassle until my dh realizes that he has left his cell phone, which to most is no biggie but when a war is going to break out anyday it's a big thing. Low and behold we landed in FL picked up our luggage and while we are waiting for the limo I check my messages and oh yes the army has called. We need you here ASAP because we are living in 20 days. We never did step out of the airport. We got on the next plane and headed home. 31 days after we were married my dh left for Kuwait and then was in Iraq for the next year and I was stuck with a MIL calling yelling at me.
 
Thanks so much for sharing these. I am going to print these stories out to give to my friend so she won't feel so bad and alone in her experience. The bat/rabies shots story is terrible. And, Jonestavern, I love your ghostly story - perfect for Halloween, not for a honeymoon, but a great story. I also can't believe how many folks lost their wedding rings or were sick (although with the stress of a wedding, I guess it shouldn't be surprising).

Any others?
 













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