Honeymoon itinerary template
A honeymoon itinerary has an unusual brief: the couple should feel that nothing was organised, while everything was. Every logistical detail you surface costs some of the effect.
So the document has two layers, and only one of them is for them.
The layer they see
- A day, a place, and one or two things worth doing. No hour-by-hour grid.
- Dinner reservations with the time and nothing else — not the confirmation number, not the cancellation policy.
- What is included, so they never wonder whether to reach for a card.
- The one thing you have arranged as a surprise, which is not in the document at all.
The layer you keep
- Every confirmation number, every cancellation deadline.
- Which supplier has been told it is a honeymoon, and what they promised.
- The room category actually booked, so an "upgrade on arrival" can be checked rather than hoped for.
- Contingencies for the two or three things that could go wrong.
The name problem
This one catches couples every year and is worth stating plainly.
Tickets must match the passport, not the marriage certificate. A newly married traveller who has started using a new surname but has not yet been issued a new passport must fly under the old name. Booking under the new one means being refused at check-in, and it happens close enough to the wedding that there is no time to fix it.
Ask which name is in the passport, not which name they now use. Then write it into the itinerary so nobody has to remember the conversation.
Where a document falls short
The honeymoon is the trip where the couple least wants to deal with a problem and where you least want to intrude. A schedule change still needs handling, and neither of you wants that to be a phone call.
Viaquo sits in that gap: the change reaches them as a short message with what it means and what has already been rearranged, in your agency's name, and they can ask a follow-up without it becoming a conversation.
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