Festive proposals seem to have been all the rage this Christmas. If Lily Allen wasn’t securing her romantic future in Bali, then Natalie Portman was becoming ‘enfianced’ to her French ballet dancer boyfriend and Hugh Hefner was getting down on bended knee (a struggle at 84).
And of course, with every festive proposal comes the New Year search for honeymoon destinations, what better to chase away those January blues? But should it be a classic beach break or a far-flung adventure?
Here, one newlywed, Vida Rogers, explains why the Maldives was the perfect choice for both, combining the romance of white-sand beaches and luxury accommodation with undersea adventures and private beach barbecues…


