Why do they call it a "honeymoon"?

Google had this to say "Perhaps from a comparison of the moon, which wanes as soon as it is full, to the affections of a newly married couple, which are most tender right after marriage."

From The Origin of the Honeymoon Tradition:

"Today, the tradition of a honeymoon following nuptials has, long way from its original meaning. Today's "happy ending" to the wedding event is a far cry from its much different beginnings. The word honeymoon has its roots in the Norse word "hjunottsmanathr" which was anything but blissful. Northern European history describes the abduction of a bride from neighboring village. It was imperative, that the abductor, the husband to be, take his bride to be into hiding for period of time. His friends assured his and her safe keeping and kept their whereabouts unknown. Once the bride's family gave up their search, the bride groom returned to his people. This folkloric explanation presumably is the origin of today's honeymoon, for its original meaning meant hiding.

The Scandinavian word for honeymoon is derived, in part, from an ancient 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 kidnaping of bride and drinking the honeyed wine date back to the history of Atilla, king of the Asiatic Huns from A.D. 433 to A.D. 453.

So that leaves us with the question of where the "moon" in the word "honeymoon" originates. One piece of folklore relates that the origin of the word moon comes from a cynical inference. To the Northern Europeans the terms referred to the body's monthly cycle and, its combination with honey, suggested that not all moon's of married life were as sweet as the first. British prose writers and poets, in the 16th and 17th centuries, often made use of the Nordic interpretation of honeymoon as a waxing and waning of marital affection."

http://www.rathergood.com/moon_song/

Because when you get into the bedroom you turn around and yell hey! Honey! look...as you pull down your shorts and moon her!

LOL

Cant say I know the real answer.

But I read somehwere why the ring finger is the ring finger.
They say there is a vain or artery that goes directly to the heart...HUMMMMM...lol

Thanks!

I always thought it was because most newlyweds have sex the night they get married, so the term Honeymoon evolved when both partners are taking off their clothes and are faced back to back exposing their "tushes" and calling each other "Honey"..thus the term "Honeymoon"