Editing Honeymoon (section)

==History==
[[File:Wedding. Yvette Villebon BAnQ P48S1P14609.jpg|thumb|Newlyweds leaving for their honeymoon boarding a [[Trans-Canada Air Lines]] plane, Montreal,      1946]]
[[File:Adolph Tidemand & Hans Gude - Bridal Procession on the Hardangerfjord - Google Art Project.jpg|thumb|''Bridal Journey in Hardanger'' by [[Adolph Tidemand]] and [[Hans Gude]], a [[Norwegian romantic nationalism|romanticized]] view of the customs of 19th-century Norwegian society]]
The custom in [[Western culture]] and some [[Westernization|westernized countries' cultures]] of a newlywed couple going on a holiday together originated in early-19th-century [[United Kingdom| Britain]]. Upper-class couples would take a "bridal tour", sometimes accompanied by friends or family, to visit relatives who had not been able to attend the [[wedding]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Selling Sex in Honeymoon Heaven|author=Strand, Ginger|work=[[The Believer (magazine)|The Believer]]|date=January 2008|url=http://www.believermag.com/issues/200801/?read=article_strand|author-link=Ginger Strand|access-date=2008-01-17|archive-date=2008-01-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080121190208/http://www.believermag.com/issues/200801/?read=article_strand|url-status=live}}</ref> The practice soon spread to the European continent and was known in France as a {{lang|fr|voyage à la façon anglaise}} ('English-style voyage'), from the 1820s onwards.

Honeymoons in the modern sense&mdash;a pure holiday voyage undertaken by the couple&mdash;became widespread during the ''[[Belle Époque]]'',<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Venayre |first1=Sylvain |author1-link=:fr:Sylvain Venayre |title=Le Temps du voyage de noces |journal=[[L'Histoire]] |date=June 2007 |issue=321 |page=57 |url=https://www.lhistoire.fr/le-temps-du-voyage-de-noces |access-date=10 November 2022 |trans-title=History of the Honeymoon Vacation |publisher=[[Sophia Publications]] |language=fr |issn=0182-2411 |quote=This article is often cited as ''Le Temps du voyage noces.''}}</ref> in the late 1800s as one of the first instances of modern [[mass tourism]].

According to some sources, the honeymoon is a relic of [[marriage by capture]], based on the practice of the husband going into hiding with his wife to avoid reprisals from her relatives, with the intention that the woman would be [[pregnant]] by the end of the month.<ref>''See, e.g., ''William Shepard Walsh, ''Curiosities of Popular Customs and of Rites, Ceremonies, Observances, and Miscellaneous Antiquities'', (J.B. Lippincott Co., 1897), p. 654; John Lubbock, ''The Origin of Civilisation and the Primitive Condition of Man: Mental and Social Condition of Savages'', (Appleton, 1882), p. 122. Curtis Pesmen & Setiawan Djody, ''Your First Year of Marriage'' (Simon and Schuster, 1995) p. 37.  ''Compare with'' Edward Westermarck, ''The History of Human Marriage'' (Allerton Book Co., 1922), p. 277 (refuting the link between honeymoon and marriage by capture).</ref>