Honeymoon-How'd We Get That Term?

As my nephew and his new bride to be go off into their life...Here's a quick historical explanation of the term honeymoon..

An ancient Northern European custom prescribed newlyweds, for the first month of their married life, to drink a daily cup of honeyed wine called mead. Honey was known to have vitamins which gave the couple energy and health both of which they needed for "other things." As time went on, the term morphed and included the term "moon" to figuratively represent a month of marriage and that no "moon" was sweeter than the first one of marriage, the honeymoon.