What do you do if you don’t need a new steam iron or cotton sheets — but the thought of asking for cold, hard cash fills you with dread? There is something that any bride and groom would find hard to refuse: the honeymoon of their dreams!
A honeymoon wedding list works in a very similar way to a traditional department store gift registry, but instead of kitchen implements or fresh towels, you put together a list of experiences and activities for your honeymoon.
Imagine champagne chilling in your upgraded hotel suite, a gourmet meal in the flickering candle light as the ocean laps nearby. It’s all so much more appealing than a blender — and so much more appealing for your guests, too, who’ll feel that they’ve given you a really special treat instead of merely contributing to an anonymous pot of cash.
Buy Our Honeymoon is the UK’s leading honeymoon gift list service. You can select from a variety of web addresses for your guests to visit, personalise your pages with your own photos, and add absolutely anything you wish to your online list. You can even mix honeymoon contributions with household items if you wish.
The site offers a free 7-day trial, and takes zero commission from the gifts you receive. You can receive payment for any gifts reserved from your list in whatever way suits you best — in cash on your wedding day, by cheque through the post, or online using a credit or debit card into your own PayPal account.
There’s a wide range of sample wedding lists showcasing the beautiful design themes and different approaches to putting together your list. And if you get stuck, Buy Our Honeymoon offers a unique Helping Hand service to track down and copy over the best ideas from the site’s thousands of successful lists, to yours.
Buy Our Honeymoon was created by Shelley and Andrew Green to use for their own wedding gift list, and was met with such an enthusiastic response from their guests that they were convinced to launch the site nationwide.
So indulge yourself: have that luxurious spa morning, upgrade your rental car, eat in the best restaurants, get those VIP tickets. Transform your honeymoon into the trip of a lifetime!
For more information on how to make the most of your honeymoon gift list, visit Buy Our Honeymoon or call 0845 224 0189.
This is a really great idea, we don’t need any “house” stuff but don’t feel comfortable asking for money so are really stuck with what to do. I love the idea of being treated on Honeymoon!
We just asked for money towards our honeymoon (although put it in nicer terms than that!) and it was pretty impersonal…plus some people dislike just giving cash. It would have been great to ask for specific activities as gifts. “I’m watching Cirque du Soleil…courtesy of my cousins!” This is a GREAT idea and I sorely wish I’d known of this a year ago!
We used buy our honeymoon and I highly recommend it. We put on activites we wanted to do on honeymoon and some things like ‘cocktails by the pool’ – sent everyone a picture of us enjoying our gift in the thank you cards x
I think the same Anna K – ours was all a bit last minute and impersonal too, this however sounds like a great idea!
Im so going to use this for our honeymoon, traveling across the USA. I think it seems a bit more personal than just asking for money.
Mr and Mrs Smith also offer this service with more extra perks than normal. My cousin used them and said the service setting it up was impeccable
We did this too and couldn’t fault the service. We planned our honeymoon, did research into what we wanted to do and put it all on the site. We had so many comments from guests and raised enough money for all our honeymoon spending money AND we got our bathroom redone when we got back, hehe.
Whenever I get a wedding invite now just asking for cash I think “how uncreative when there are options like this about”
Yey, I too am using Buy Our Honeymoon and the other half and I spent most of Saturday making the finishing touches to our webpage, digging out lots of personal pics to use for captions etc and ordered the little giftcard things you get so we can pop those in with our invites when they arrive.
It made us very VERY excited about the honeymoon and is a lovely thing to sit down and do together and makes you really think about what kind of stuff you want to do whilst you’re on that trip of a lifetime!
Fab concept and am so glad we found it x
Another satisfied customer here! We have also made use of their planning service – extremely useful! We also added a “Back Home” section so that we could have a couple of more traditional gifts, as well.
So far we have cocktails, a candlelight dinner cruise, and breakfast in bed!