"There are a lot of people taking road trips, or taking the train, or doing a staycation, or doing a more scaled-down version," says Meg Keene, publisher and executive editor of A Practical Wedding website, apracticalwedding.com, and author of a guidebook of the same name.

There's even a word for the smaller, simpler options: mini-moons.

In fact with many couples both time-poor and with budgets that have already been blown out on the big day the new trend is to ditch the typical honeymoon for a minimoon.

So, the honeymoon has become a chance to be creative, to think outside the coconut-scented box that holds the traditional week in Bermuda or Jamaica or Hawaii. That creativity has spawned weddingmoons, halfmoons, mini-moons and extravagant vacations that are rationalized as honeymoons.