Honeymoon: Charleston!

It took Johnny and I a while to figure out where we wanted to honeymoon. We're still don't have things set in stone yet, so this post may be a little bit premature -- I'm sure we'll be firming up some parts of the plan and discarding other parts (oh geez. I used a librarian word.). But we are pretty sure that Charleston is the destination.
Johnny wanted to go somewhere where we could get to a beach that would be warm-ish but not hot in October and somewhere we wouldn't have to get on an airplane to get to -- I wanted to go somewhere beach-ish as well that also had stuff to do. We ended up looking at destinations along the South-East coast, from Ocean City, Maryland down to Savannah, Georgia, and ended up picking Charleston because it's got both beach and city. Johnny's been there before, but I haven't, and we're both excited to be planning our first trip with each other alone.
So far, we've mostly been looking at hotels -- we thought for a while about staying out of the city, somewhere on the beach, but the more we looked at things, the more we wanted to stay in the city and travel out to the beach. From there, we went from narrowing our search based on houses and villas to rent toward hotels - you can stay a whole lot closer to stuff in a hotel, and there are some really nice ones in Charleston. The one that's our top-runner right now is the Harbourview Inn, which has got some great ratings and has a great location (not to mention awesome-looking rooms).

Harbourview Inn, Charleston

There's a ton of stuff that I'm excited to see in Charleston. Some of it's the basic Charleston-y goodness, like the old plantations, Market Street, the South Carolina Aquarium, and the ghost tours. But then there's Charleston Tea Plantation, which has factory and field tours... and the Moon Pie General Store.
Tea + Moon Pies = A++ Honeymoon.