How does a honeymoon registry work? 

A honeymoon registry works in a very similar way to a traditional wedding gift registry, but instead of asking for kitchen implements and linens, the happy couple put together a list of experiences and activities for their honeymoon.

The registry can include almost anything - show tickets, candlelit dinners, an upgrade to a rental car, or even just contributions towards flights and accommodation.

Most honeymoon registries are based online, and guests visit the couple's registry web pages to choose a gift for them. The money paid by the guest for their gift is then provided to the couple.

Isn't that just like a cash donation? 

We believe that a honeymoon registry can be a far more romantic option for both couples and guests than a traditional department store wedding gift registry.

Although the physical transaction between the couple and their wedding guests is cash, guests are in effect "sponsoring" specific parts of the honeymoon experience.

Many travel suppliers offer honeymoon vouchers, where wedding guests can make a cash contribution to the overall cost of the honeymoon. The difference between donating to a big pot like this, and reserving the specific gift of a day's scuba diving off the coast of Zanzibar, is in the romance.

Of course, that doesn't mean that you're obliged to plan every minute of your honeymoon itinerary in advance, or never to deviate from the gifts you've been given. Your friends and family merely want you to have the best honeymoon possible, and to feel that they've made a contribution that you can remember them by.

When I was five, my brother (who's somewhat older than me) visited Cape Canaveral, and brought me home a gift of a tiny, child-size spacesuit. I wore it religiously until it no longer fit. When we set up Buy Our Honeymoon for our own honeymoon to Florida and the Deep South, my brother made sure that his gift to us was a pair of tickets to visit NASA ourselves. That gift was far more special and memorable to us than a set of towels.

How is Buy Our Honeymoon different? 

Zero service charge. Free, no-obligation 7-day trial. Romantic themes. No advertising on your registry pages.

Honeymoon registries are typically funded through a service charge of up to 15% placed on the gifts that your guests buy. Your gifts are collected by the registry operator and paid to you in a lump sum, less service charge, shortly before your wedding.

We believe that spoils the romance. Buy Our Honeymoon takes no commission from your gifts.

Instead, we charge an initial setup fee of only $64. Your guests pay you the value of their gifts directly, in whatever way suits you best - straight into your own PayPal account, by check or cash. This way, you get your gifts the moment they're given.

We offer a free, no-obligation 7-day trial so you can try out our easy-to-use, flexible registry building system in complete confidence. If you decide in the end not to use us, you don't need to do anything to cancel. We promise not to hassle you, or to give away or sell your details to anyone.

Your Buy Our Honeymoon registry pages are your space. We don't clutter them with adverts for other companies, or for ourselves. We offer a wide range of beautiful design themes, you can list your gifts in whatever categories you choose, include images and links in your descriptions, and even allow your guests to make their own gift suggestions to you.

When a guest buys you an item, they're asked to leave you a message. These messages are kept for you in your Gift History, which you'll be able to access forever, and are private to you as a couple. We'll never publish them for others to see.

We also offer a unique gift research service. With this, we'll personally consult with you to discuss your honeymoon plans, and then compile 25 individually crafted gift items to match your personality and style, including links where appropriate and a gorgeous photo for each item we add to your registry.

Our registry themes 

Paradise

Scrapbook

Zen

Rose Petals

Safari

City Lights

Road Trip

Rainbow Heart

Vegas

News and New Features 

• Now you and your guests can mark gifts as paid, simply and easily, allowing you better to keep track of payments.
• Now you can request a specific number of gifts for any item and display an automatically-updated countdown on your registry. See our blog for more details.
• We've now made it even easier to add photos to your honeymoon registry items! You can now simply upload any photo when adding or editing a registry item, and we'll do the rest!
• Now you can order your registry items in whatever order you want! Check out our blog to find out more...
• Facebook user? Take a look at the Facebook page for Buy Our Honeymoon and have your say!
• Want to know what our customers think of us? Check out our new testimonials page!
• Don't want to use buy-our-honeymoon.com as the web address for your pages? No problem! You can now select our-honeymoon-registry.com, the-gift-of-memories.com or honeymoonpromises.com instead when you sign up for your free trial.

Top Tips 

How to make the most of your honeymoon registry.

1. Price your items carefully. Include something for everyone's budget. However, don't underestimate your guests' generosity. If they want to spoil you, let them. Make sure you include some real once-in-a-lifetime treats.
2. It's useful to allow multiple guests to buy you certain items (you do need many bottles of champagne). It also means there's always something available to buy from your list.
3. However, try not to be tempted to simply fill your registry with contributions to things. It's important for your guests to feel what they've bought is special, unique and important to you.
4. Car hire, accommodation and air fare are all useful items to include, but consider listing upgrades instead. It's so much more appealing to your guests, who'll want to feel that they're giving you the time of your life, and not just paying for a normal holiday.
5. Be as specific as you can be in your descriptions. You may change your mind later (your guests really won't mind) but Jazz at Truman's Bar (the oldest in NYC) is so much more evocative than An evening of jazz. This also helps your guests to feel they are genuinely buying you a gift and not just making a cash donation. Asking for your honeymoon is quite an abstract concept, so the more you can make it concrete, the better.
6. Write your descriptions in the first person - "We'll take an sunset dinner cruise" rather than "Take a sunset dinner cruise". This makes your registry feel much more personal, and less like a travel brochure.
7. Make your registry fun and attractive. Guests are more likely to enjoy using your registry, and to appreciate why you haven't used a traditional wedding registry. Choose the theme that suits you best, divide your list into plenty of categories, and make those adjectives work for you!
8. Appeal to your guests' sense of romance and luxury. Include candlelit dinners, carriage rides and anything at sunset!
9. Give your items interesting titles. Instead of Contributions to Car Hire, why not The Open Road or The Wind in Our Hair ..?
10. Make your registry reflect your personality. Fun and funky? Elegant and romantic? The choice is yours.

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Lens of the Day 

This lens was the Squidoo Lens of the Day for August 22, 2007! Many thanks to Kimberly Dawn Wells and the Squidoo team!

Reader Feedback 

Do you have any feedback for us? We're all ears!

ebizsalez cool idea! i wish you the best in marketing your site :) from fellow lens: bigsaveontravel Posted October 03, 2007

neilwalker Hi shedside, excellent lens. Found you through Google doing some research. Your registry themes look great. Keep up the good work The honeymoon expert Posted September 26, 2007

allysa well done lens. I would like to share it to my newly wed friends. Kudos! Posted September 06, 2007

mrsjordanjr Great idea. Posted September 04, 2007

pitt343 i like too read and make new friends? and love too make merry!with friends. i'm also the managing director of business day watch nigeria. i'm looking forward!too share my knowleged with poeple across the world.too let the world know what i'm made off..because knowleged is power as they say.thanks... Posted September 04, 2007

 

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