Festivals Around the World That Can Make Your Honeymoon Memorable

A honeymoon is not all about spending money on luxury suites and romantic dinners, but also about sharing experiences that make your togetherness feel more significant, experiences that you will remember long after photographs fade. While taking a honeymoon trip abroad makes for one way to make your post-wedding escape from the rush truly memorable, what makes it even more memorable is by aligning your honeymoon with a significant event taking place in the destination country, for instance, a cultural festival native to the destination country.

Imagine waltzing into a masked ball in Venice or watching the lantern float in the sky in Thailand or Taiwan or strolling through the streets of Japan whilst it drowns under the soft-hued pink petals. These festivals are bound to make your honeymoon a memory that will be forever etched in your heart.

Here are some of the world’s most enchanting cultural festivals that can add magic to your honeymoon.

Cultural Festivals That Can Add Magic To Your Honeymoon

Venice Carnival, Italy

Hosted in January to February, the Venice Carnival in Italy gives you a chance to step into an absolute fairytale where baroque costumes transform the city into a stage and feathered masks and canal-side masquerades make for a scene right out of a Shakespearean play. For couples, it is everything dramatic, from gondola rides to opera salons and evenings that feel like a scene from our history books and what screams romance better than dressing up in extravagant gowns and attending a ball, and if it is in Italy, you know it will be memorable.

Yi Peng & Loi Krathong Festival

Thailand’s Lantern Festival is a must-visit festival if you are looking to explore cultural festivals across the globe. One of the most romantic spectacles in the world, Yi Peng is celebrated in Chiang Mai in November and sees thousands of lanterns drift into the night sky, which is a symbol of carrying away misfortune and welcoming blessings. Many couples write their wishes onto the lantern before they release it into the sky together. 

Loi Krathong festival, also celebrated in Thailand, witnesses couples float lotus-shaped rafts decorated with candles and flowers down rivers and lakes symbolically expressing gratitude and wishing for renewal. These celebrations symbolise love and fresh beginnings for the couples.

Cherry Blossom Festival, Japan

Hanami, Japan’s tradition of flower-viewing picnics under blooming cherry trees, is exclusively for the newlyweds. Imagine spending time with your significant other as the entire city turns into a pink-hued dreamscape during the spring season.

La Tomatina, Spain

If you are a Bollywood fan, I bet you have always wanted to take part in the tomato festival that you saw in Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara, that released in 2011, especially if your idea of romance is a little playfulness and spontaneity. Spain’s La Tomatina festival, hosted in Bunol, is messy, but liberating in the most joyful sense. If you are on your honeymoon and are looking for an unmissable experience to turn your honeymoon into an experience of a lifetime, it is a must.

Hogmanay, Scotland

A new year’s special, if you are planning your honeymoon between December 29 to January 1, this festival allows you to ring in the New Year with fireworks and music at Edinburgh’s legendary Hogmanay. From torchlight processions to ceilidh dancing under the Edinburgh Castle, this festival is one of the world’s most spirited ways to start a fresh year and bring in a new chapter, and when you are newly married, it marks the most beautiful beginning to your married life as well.

Couples who plan their honeymoon around a cultural festival must remember that they are signing up for both adventure and a meaningful experience. Besides connecting you to the local traditions of a foreign land, these festivals create just the perfect environment and vibe for your honeymoon with joy and love all around. These festivals give stories that no romantic dinner could ever give you and thus make your honeymoon a one-of-a-kind experience.