I'm in the same boat, wedding in July... but I've been at it since June with the first deposit. Would you believe a place we look at in June 2012 was already booked for our date in July 2013? Crazy!
I got 6 cards my first round: 2 x AA Citi 50k, 2 x SPG 25k (personal + business, sadly a couple of months before it briefly jumped from 25k to 30k), and BoA/BoH 35k Hawaiian cards.
Second round, end of November: Chase Ink Bold 50k, Chase Priority Club 80k, Amex 65k Hilton.
The 2 SPG cards + a ton of wedding spend + a referral + existing points got me to 100k for 5 nights at Vedema, Santorini. 80k PC points + existing points got me 3 nights at Intercontinental Geneva.
The rest of the points it seems will be used somewhere other than the honeymoon. 100k AA miles (+ spend) coulda gotten us coach tickets, but I used UA miles from Months of Miles for business the whole way, and 3 nights in Paris thanks to Radisson's Big Night Giveaway last year.
Only thing left to book is a hotel for 2 nights in Athens, and 5 nights in Mykonos. That's gonna be an expensive one, as it seems only Starwood has a property there and I'm all outta points. (I do have 1000 so I could do half rack rate at Santa Marina, but I think we'll end up elsewhere.)
I am hoping for one more: US Bank Club Carlson card. 85k signup is nice, plus would save me 50k on my existing reservation. But I gotta wait a few more months before another application.
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gloreglabert
Am I the only one who read the title and thought "well, that's easy..."?
Just don't do what I did and charge $3000 to a debit card from a vendor coded as a restaurant...two years later, I still have daily regrets...
I was annoyed I was finishing off my Ink Bold spend requirement at the hotel we're getting married at instead of using my Sapphire... then discovered it also gets 2x at hotels when I was checking my statement! Saved me from the same fate.