Your honeymoon should be a one-in-a-lifetime vacation for you and your new spouse. After the stress and commotion of your nuptials, allow yourself to be pampered to the extreme on a luxury honeymoon. If you can swing it financially, consider taking a luxury honeymoon at one of these upscale resorts:

Visit Hawaii in style by staying at Halekulani Hotel, constantly rated number one for best hotel service, best spa, and generally, best in the world. The hotel on Waikiki Beach has been going strong for 100 years, and is considered the place to be when money is no object. www.halekulani.com.

Take a luxury cruise to an unexpected port of call: Antarctica. Okay, it might not be exactly what you picture when you think of a honeymoon, but there is a great degree of romance in huddling together in the serene chill, exploring places that most of the world has never seen, and doing it all on a luxury cruise liner such as the Prince Albert II owned by Silversea. According to cruisecritic.com, the Prince Albert II has 66 oceanview cabins, with the majority of them featuring a private verandah and flat-screen TV. The itineraries flip between touring the Arctic and the Antarctic, but will be sailing through the Norwegian Fjords this summer before returning to Antarctica through the end of the year.

He just proposed, and she’s as giddy as a schoolgirl. That happiness will radiate for weeks – or at least until the stress of planning a wedding takes hold! Capture those feelings with pre-wedding photography (also known as engagement photography).

In order to get a timeless, beautiful look for your pre-wedding photography, follow five tips that will ensure the focus is on you, the newly engaged couple, and not your clothes or the background.

1. Dress in classic styles that you’re comfortable in. If you’re normally a dressy gal, then go ahead and buy a special new dress or skirt for the occasion. If you’re a jeans and T-shirt person, though, don’t try to dress up just to dress up. The discomfort will show on your face, so stick to jeans (clean!) and a dressier top. A simple outfit in a solid color is your best bet, and make sure your significant other is wearing a color that complements yours.

Could it really be that easy? It’s true – looking your best in your destination wedding dress is as easy as three Ps. Pick, pack and perfect the dress, and you’ll look fabulous in your chosen wedding location.

Picking. Often, a destination wedding dress is going to be more informal than a typical princess wedding dress. This isn’t always the case, though, especially if your “destination wedding” is being planned in your hometown that you live three to four hours away from.

When choosing your dress for a destination wedding, take into account the climate you’re getting married in. A tropical beach wedding calls for a more casual dress in a light-weight material – after all, you don’t want sweat marks on your white dress! Choose a thin fabric such as chiffon, charmuese or organza.

A tropical beach wedding is one of the more appropriate times to choose a sexier wedding dress, too. When the location is exotic and sexy itself, no one can fault a bride for tuning into that vibe and glamming up the sex appeal as well!

For a stunning memories of your nuptials, consider these five wedding photography trends:

Photojournalism/reportage photography. We’ve covered this pretty thoroughly, but in case you need a refresher course, photojournalism or reportage photography follows the journalistic approach of documenting the wedding as if it were a feature story.

Strict photojournalists won’t dare to pose or stage any pictures, preferring instead to capture the moments as they happen. Most frequently these days, you’ll run across reportage wedding photographers who combine photojournalistic and traditional wedding photography to form a sort of hybrid of the two.

Fashion or fine-art shots. This wedding photography trend is all about the glamour. Look at the photo shoots you see in high-end fashion magazines, and picture yourself as the model. This is all about the lighting, the posing, and naturally, the clothes. Fashion or fine-art shots can give a couple a spectacular wedding album.

Unique posing. While wedding photography trends are moving away a bit from posing, it’s also shifting to a different type of posing where the shot is staged, but in an unexpected way. An example would be posing the groom sitting in a pew at the front of the church, then staging his groomsmen sitting in various pews behind him.