Advice needed-Honeymoon

I was just offered a new teaching job for September. My wedding is Sept.21st. Do I book a honeymoon for right after the wedding? Do I wait until a school vacation ie. Christmas Spring Break? They know I am getting Married in Sept. should I just say I booked my honeymoon already?
Please help! I know some of you are teachers, what are you doing?

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I would say I already booked my honeymoon. A honeymoon is once in a lifetime (hopefully) and if you put it off, you may not feel like got the whole effect of being married! Also, who knows if you'll ever get around to go. Maybe other things will come up financially or even getting pregnant? Ya never know. I say go! Enjoy it all now. You have always wanted this right? I know I have!

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Your right! They know I am getting married. Who doesn't have a honeymoon after they get married? They will just have to get a sub for aweek. Thank you.

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Go for it its your honeymoon girl!!!!!!!!

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i am also missing two weeks from work. if you wait till a school holiday for your honeymoon, airline prices go up, and tons more people go away. wherever you go will be much more crowded than it would in september... its your honeymoon. you only get one... enjoy!!!

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The same thing just happened with my couisn. She just got a new teaching job for September but had already booked her honeymoon to Hawaii for the week after her December 7, 2002 wedding. They decided to change the honeymoon to Christmas vacation- but had to suck about a huge amount of money to do it. Maybe you can talk to your supervisor/principal about it?

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As a teacher...I would say no...do it over a vacation...being a teacher, is not like other fields...you get so many vacation days...they frown on people who take days in addition

I don't know what district you are in, but some of them are cut-throat. Yes they will approve the vacation time, but when tenure comes they will only see that you took a week off and not be bothered to find out the reason.

We have not had a contract for 1 year, b/c of the absent policy...the district wants to give us an unsatisfactory if we are absent 6 or more times in one year!! How pathetic is this? very...but its reality...

OK...so a solution...get married and take a FEW days off...(We are going to Montauk after the wedding - b/c we are waiting a month to go to a certain festival in Spain) and go somewhere. Then take the honeymoon in December.

A friend of mine got married in MArch...they went to Vegas afterwards...they are going to Hawaii in AUgust...she just said she is SO happy she did it this way b/c its like her wedding hasn't really ended...

just MHO...

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I agree with yabbobay. The district will probably approve the time but they will certainly not be happy about it. Not to toot my own horn but they adore me in my district. I considered having a Fall wedding/honeymoon but I am glad I didn't. When I told someone I considered that but didn't go with it they basically said you made the right choice.

As teachers we do get a lot of well deserved vacation. It is not the best decision to take extra time unless it is absolutely necessary. Two years ago a teacher took 2 weeks in the fall for the wedding/honeymoon and people are still talking about how wrong it was!

My advice would be take a few days then schedule the real honeymoon over a vacation. Especially since you are starting a new job in a new district and it's the beginning of the year you don't want to start off on the wrong foot. Believe me, people don't forget things like that and you wouldn't want that to be a reason for not getting tenure.

Good Luck

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Thank You so much. I am going to wait to take a honeymoon.
I am very concerned about tenure and the structure of my class. The first couple of weeks are difficult enough for both student and teacher (not to mention having a teacher that has wedding on the brain for the 1st two weeks of school)
I work for a very competitive school district. I wouldn't be able to really relax.
Thank you for the reality check!

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I am a teacher also, and I actually planned my wedding around a school break. (I never imagined I would have an april wedding). But anyway I did this because I do not want to miss additional days, so I think you are making the right decision in waiting to take your honeymoon. It will make your wedding last longer in a sense and you will look very dedicated in the eyes of your school district!

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I also think you should wait. I am not a teacher, but I go to grad school at night and my fiance is starting law school at night in the fall.

We are getting married in oct. but have decided to take a short trip right after the wedding and we are in the process of booking a longer trip in January. We may have been able to get the week off but we figured we can relax more then plus when you take off mid-semester it's hard to get back into things when you get back.

My advice is book your holiday trip now anyway-don't put it off until after the wedding because you may not get around to it. We are going the 1st week of January because this is considered non-holiday and the rates drop considerably.

Good luck!

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I'm not going to add anything new here, but I am a teacher too (school librarian actually) and my FH and I are getting married Dec. 13, and waiting a week to take the honeymoon during Christmas break. And whoever wrote that the prices go up during that time was ABSOLUTELY RIGHT. So we decided to take a cruise, which seemed to be the same price no matter what, and we booked our airline tickets separately through cheap tickets, and saved about $200.00 that way.

I will be up for tenure my wedding year (next school year), and I'm even terrified to take about 2-3 days off before the wedding. I'm thinking of talking to my principal to see what she says - do I take the days as personal, or personal without pay, so as to not tarnish my attendance record. You have to be EXTREMELY careful with taking time off, as ridiculous as it sounds - being that we get 5 personal days and 10 sick. This year I only took one day off and I'm even paranoid about that.

Good luck with whatever you decide...and good luck with your new teaching job!