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We've registered at Bed Bath and Beyond and Honeyfund.com. Of course, the wedding is still 2+ months away, but we've gotten positive feedback from everyone we've mentioned it to. Of course, in our situation, I'm 30, FI is 40 and everyone has already seen that we have enough household goods for three homes...
Well, we are registered still at the other places, because we need household things as well. We don't live together.
I think it's fine. You're giving your guests lots of options. Those who want to buy a physical gift can go to the store that they like better (or browse the registries you've made for the perfect gift) while those who don't want to go out to the store or who don't have time (or who don't want to pay shipping costs if they can't make it) can give you a fun honeymoon "gift certificate". It's more personalized and special than just sending off a check.
We're only registered at honeyfund. We just don't need housewares at this point. We like it so far, though we'll have to pay for the honeymoon ourselves and just get reimbursed by our guests.
That's interesting, I have never heard of that. Does the website charge or make any money out of this?
We are doing a honeymoon registry as our only registry. We were planning on using honeyfund, but the layout and the way the site works seems a bit tacky to us. Also, if you want it to look decent, you have to pay for the upgraded version. So at this point we are considering using one of the paid websites like honeymoonwishes.com
We're registered at 3. If you want/need some help you should do it! = )
We're using Honeyfund, of course we have no idea when or even where we want to go yet so that should be interesting...
ETA: We also have two other registries- Macy's and Williams Sonoma
We just registered on honeyfund last week!! I did a lot of research and found that it was the easiest for our guests and it doesn't charge anyone which is awesome, too!! We also have 2 other "normal" registries for our household stuff :]
we are registered at BBB and honeyfund, I did the upgrade on their website which cost me like $29. It was worth it. My shower is next month and so far I have gotten lots of great feed back on the honeymoon registry. Some people had never heard of it and thought it was a great idea. We have 2 excursions paid for already :)
We used honeyfund - and I'm glad. But, I will tell you that only about 3 guests actually used it - But, when I did get cash - I pretended that people used honeyfund and put amounts we received. I think since honeyfund doesn't actually collect the money for you - people don't get the point - but, if you register they do understand that you want $$$$!
i registered for honeyfund before thoroughly researching it and now I'm not sure if we're going to use.
on your website, do guests say how much they are going to give you, then send you a check for that amount?
The way it works is that guests choose a gift, then print a voucher and give it to you with a check/cash (in person or by mail). So it's not really a registry...it's just a glorified way of asking for cash.
The paid honeymoon registries we are looking at now let guests just put in their credit card and collect the money for you, so your guests don't have to bring or mail you checks themselves. Of course, the site will charge you 10% for this service :)
ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.......humm, that changes my outlook on it now. Thanks for the info.
@GirlWithARing what is the website you are using? i'd rather have them be able to pay online.
@dns567: We're using Traveler's Joy:
http://www.travelersjoy.com/about/faq.php#cost
We found it very user-friendly and a great guest interface. Also cheaper than other paid sites.
Here's my honeyfund: http://www.honeyfund.com/wedding/courtneyandparry
I haven't set up paypal yet, but once you do, they can pay online.
With honeyfund, they can still pay by paypal too and the fees are less than otherwise. I have no problem asking for cash though and our friends know it. I wish we weren't both so super white. My Asian and Hispanic friends can blatantly just be handed cash and it's considered normal. For us WASPs, it seems that we have to act like we really don't want it and we'd prefer a toaster and towels.
@cvbee - but that's not free Honeyfund, that's the premium version. The free version doesn't let you pay by credit card or even have the nice layout that your site has (I think it's really pretty, btw!)
@BrianneG - I've experienced this culture clash too. I'm Ukrainian and FI is Jewish, so both of those cultures do cash gifts. But we have some WASP guests, and they get really offended at the idea of no registry. So frustrating!
True that it is not free, but it is a lot less expensive ($30) than the company taking a significant percentage off from every gift we get.
We did it and we ended up getting EVERYTHING we registered for. I think people really like the idea of giving you money but knowing what it's going towards.
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I just foudn out about this site and am considering registering on it. We already are registered at two stores...would this be too much. What do you think of sites that allow people to help you with your honeymoon funds? Has anyone done it already? What were the outcomes?