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Imagine your carefree Haliburton Ontario Canadian  honeymoon or wedding destination and adventure honeymoon at Haliburton's or Muskoka's most romantic destination.

Celebrate your special occasion, anniversary, honeymoon or wedding amid Haliburton's spectacular scenery.

Fulfill your dreams for your private romantic retreat on your engagement, wedding, anniversary, vowel renewal, birthday or other romantic getaway.

Your experience will be the best in Haliburton Highlands, carefree, romantic, fun and private. You will enjoy a carefree celebration. Muskoka and Algonquin Park are nearby.

How it all began...

"Honeymoon" originated in European wedding traditions of the upper class in the nineteenth century, affording the couple the luxury of a bridal tour or wedding trip that often lasted several weeks or months. As the middle class grew in industrializing nations, they began to emulate the bridal tour. Middle-class couples could not afford the scale and duration of the bridal tour as practiced by affluent brides and grooms. Thus, the honeymoon trip that lasted a few days to a week provided the semblance of a bridal tour. 

With the advent of the automobile and train, and later the airplane, couples were able to increases the distance of their honeymoon trips and seek out exotic and popularized locations such as the Haliburton Highlands in Cenral Ontario. By the mid-twentieth century, international sites such as Jamaica, Fiji, and similar tropical locations had become common honeymoon destinations. Resorts that cater exclusively to honeymooning couples were mass-marketed in the later part of the twentieth century.

The Scandinavian word for honeymoon is derived, the Northern European custom in which newlyweds, for the first month of their married life, drank a daily cup of honeyed wine called mead. The ancient practices of kidnapping of bride and drinking the honeyed wine date back to the history of Atilla, king of the Asiatic Huns.