My FH and I cant decide on a honeymoon location/ if we will even go on one. I would love at least 10 full days and up to two weeks. I am a teacher have June and July free or else it's waiting until winter break or next summer. I really want to go somewhere that we've never been but he wants to save for a house which we both want, especially since we are paying for our wedding 100% ourselves. I still want to splurge a little bit but still within a reasonable budget (3k-4k max with flights included). My dream honeymoon would be Italy, France, or Spain which are all way out of budget. My realistic honeymoon is Hawaii or an all inclusive resort in Mexico. I get bad seasickness so cruises are out, even though they would definitely fit our budget.
We live in Texas and he suggests a road trip Washington and passing through California to go to the beach and we can camp in a car tent along the way, but to me that doesn't scream "romantic." We've been together 7 years, and we already do one smaller road trip each summer so it isn't that special, especially since it's 20 hours to California then another 20 to Seattle, then back home which is already at least 6/14 days in a car. We've gotten to the point where we've both kind of given up and haven't talked about it for a month or so.
Is anyone else skipping or have found a budget friendly honeymoon, or have found middle ground? Open to advice on how to bring up this topic with FH to try to convince him we can splurge a tiny bit. I guess it's all the people around us getting married and going on these honeymoons to fun places that has me set on something 'special' and very envious of friends. Who knew the honeymoon planning could be worse than wedding planning!