This woman wore her wedding dress on her honeymoon around the world
On Zoe and Nick Aust's very first date, the topic of travel came up.
It turned out both had a dream of leaving their day jobs and traveling the world for an extended period of time.
Many people have that dream, of course, but the Austs actually made it happen. They visited 33 countries over their 10-month honeymoon. In each one, they dressed in their wedding clothes, snapped a photo and posted it to their Instagram, MarryMeinTravel.
The gorgeous photos don't immediately tell the whole story, however. The couple saved for years to afford the trip. Zoe worked two jobs: one as a nanny and the other as a cake artist.
"We're not professional travelers, photographers or models," Zoe Aust told "Good Morning America." "We were learning as we went."
Her most memorable moment, she said, was when the couple took a helicopter to the base camp of Mount Everest.
"We knew we wanted to visit Everest but usually you need two weeks to train and get acclimated," she said. "The helicopter was a splurge for us. We had five minutes to see it. I felt so lucky I cried."
Another memorable moment was on the last leg of the trip. The couple were in the Seychelles.
"I thought we should have a 'trash-the-dress' moment," she said. "So we got up early and ran into the Indian Ocean with our wedding clothes on. It felt like we had come full circle."
And while the couple are now both world travelers and social media influencers, most of the traveling Zoe Aust had done prior to the couple's whirlwind honeymoon was of the volunteer variety. They've already traveled to Sierra Leone to volunteer post-honeymoon.
"My sister and brother-in-law had done a similar [long-term] trip, before social media [was a way to document travels]. So I was able to ask them a lot of questions about how to make it happen," she said.
The couple, who live in northern New Jersey, spend a lot of time answering questions from strangers about their travels. Zoe said a lot of people ask her about how to quit a job, how to get from one country to the next and how to save money along the way.
"If we can help someone make their dream of travel come true, we want to do that," she said. "Making dreams come true can be a lot of hard work."
