5 Tips for a Romantic Honeymoon

Candles, rose petals, delicious foods, perfume—all of us are familiar with all of these time-honored ingredients for creating a romantic mood on your honeymoon. While they only go so far and the real key of a romantic honeymoon is to spend time celebrating your relationship and your new life together as a married couple. After all, romance is more about the heart than the body.

That doesn’t mean you should put the candles away, but start setting the mood early by reveling in your relationship. 5 tips listed as below:

1. Explore uncharted territory

Intimacy is a key ingredient for creating a romantic mood. In its most basic sense, intimacy is about revealing our interior selves to another person honored as someone we cherish and trust. Since it’s often difficult to start, a game or book of questions can help. They contain hundreds of questions on topics ranging from ethics to feelings and ideas and you can use in almost any setting—even in the car or airplane on the way to your honeymoon destination.

2. Combine Your Photo Albums

Start your photo album together, if you don't get one at your wedding. Bring out your photo albums and choose the best photos of each other from your dating days to put in your new album—it's a great way to relive old memories.

3. Write a Dream Letter

Write letters to each other about your dreams for your marriage. What do you hope your marriage look like in ten, twenty, or thirty years? Exchange the letters on the first day of your marriage, and save them to read on your wedding anniversary.

4. Leave Memory Notes Everywhere

Nothing creates a romantic mood better than memorizing your sweet moments together as a couple. Find some small notepaper or post-it notes and spend certain time digging up your favorite memories of your spouse. How did you meet? How did your first kiss come about? What is the goofiest thing he or she ever did? When was your spouse there for you when you needed him or her the most? Thinking of the memories you’d most like to share with your spouse over the course of your marriage. Write down and hide them all over the places at your honeymoon destination (on the pillow, in the luggage, in the car, etc.).

5. Share the Love

The funny thing about love is you get more by giving it away. That's as true for newlyweds as for anyone else, so find ways to share your love with others. Start by committing random acts of kindness—both toward each other and complete strangers. Visit related website or else for inspiration. Creating great memories this way adds a magical twist to your honeymoon.