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We are using honeymoonwishes too. I also registered at bedbath for the older family members and work. The feedback I've gotten so far is... "we will just give you the money" "super cool, better then buying you a plate" etc... so we shall see. I hope it works out great for us.
so what is the deal with the site then? do we have to give a fraction of the money paid to us to the company then? I am a little unsure of how the website works...
I went onto wedding wishes to check it out. Under the FAQ's, the charges are explained. They say that a 7% service fee is charged for each gift, and you can choose whether it gets added to the gift cost, or if it is taken out of the total instead. Credit card gifts are charged an extra 3%.
So basically, you don't pay a flat fee, they just take 7% of your gifts money or they charge your guests an extra 7%.
If you're unsure about that site...check out Honeyfund.com...apparently that is free, aside from any charges incurred by your paypal account (It's all done through PayPal, and sometimes they charge for transactions).
I want to say one of the other Bees are using Honeyfund.com....But it would take me forever to backtrack and find out who.
I just set up my honeymoon registry a few weeks ago. We're in the same boat, have lived together for years (were even roommates before we started dating!), so we really don't need much in the way of traditional registry gifts.
I was going to go with a service like honeymoonwishes.com, but after reading how much they all charge for the service, I instead decided to do my own! If you have a wedding website and a paypal account, all you need is to plug in the quantity and description into paypal, and they generate a "add to cart" or "buy now" button, then you just paste into your website html editor. PayPal charges a heck of a lot less, as I'm sure all you ebay-ers knnow.
This probably wouldn't work if you have one of the basic websites like the Knot offers, but we got ours through Go Daddy, and it included Website Tonight website building software. It was all actually pretty easy, you can have a look at what we did if you like.
But we also did a small "regular registry" on Amazon for those not into the honeymoon registry concept. Amazon was great because it allowed us to get non traditional things like patio chairs and sleeping bags.
Sorry, pasted the url of my landing page, here is the direct link to the DIY honeymoon registry on our site: http://morganandalex.com/Honeymoon_Registry.html
Since I received several PMs asking about how I set up my website honeymoon registry, I thought I would post this for everyone to see:
I got the wedding package from Go Daddy (scroll down about halfway down the page on the right). http://www.godaddy.com/gdshop/personal_solutions.asp?ci=9033
The software that comes with it is super easy to use, they have lots of tutorials, and templates for wedding websites (or you can do your own graphics like I did). I really like that it gives a lot more flexibility than the free wedding pages, or even paid for ones like Wed-o-rama.
Regarding setting up the honeymoon page, everyone that has seen it thinks it's such a neat idea. I had to e-mail Go Daddy to figure out how to add the Paypal stuff to my site, here is the info:
To Add Google® or PayPal Services
1. Log in to your WebSite Tonight account.
2. From the Design menu, click Page Designer .
3. If necessary, from the You are editing list, select the page you want to edit.
4. Click the block you want to edit. Blocks are outlined in blue.
5. Position your cursor where you want to add he Google® or PayPal JavaScript code.
6. Go to the Insert tab, from the Extras icon, select Script.
7. In the Enter JavaScript box, enter or paste the JavaScript code you got from the Google® or PayPal service.
8. Click OK.
9. In the Edit Content window, click the HTML tab.
10. Position your cursor where you want to add the HTML code. You should position the cursor beneath the script placeholder image.
11. Enter or paste the Google® or PayPal.
12. Click OK.
To generate the script from Paypal to insert on your page, go here: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_wp-standard-overview-outside
Just follow the instructions on the site, it's really easy once you are going through the steps, I promise!
very vey helpful Calivalley - thanks for those tips for myself as well as everyone else!
I just looked into Honeyfund.com and it s amuch better deal (the site is not as nice as some others I have seen, and you do have to pay more for a premium site...but FREE)
So does anyone have any insight on Honeyfund?
I used honeyfund to set up our honeymoon registry and it's been great so far! We've gotten a lot of positive responses from guests and received a few gifts through the PayPal option! It's true that paypal does take 3% from the cost of the gift but it seemed pretty nominal to us and worth it! You can break down a lot of the bigger ticket items into smaller amounts so most of the things we listed were anywhere from $10 to $150. 3% off those amounts really didn't make a difference to our overall cost of the honeymoon. Hope that helps, good luck!
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these were all good ideas! my good girlfriend got married and registered for REALLY expensive gifts at Macy's in order to deter people from BUYING them gifts and giving them money instead towards their honeymoon. An outsider looking in might say that it seems kind of rude, but if you know her, thats totally her style and people were okay with it! the honeymoon fund websites are an awesome idea though!
We are also doing a honeymoon registry. We are using travelersjoy.com. It is free to set up but I think they do charge 7% off the total amount given. I like the website b/c I am computer illiterate and it is easy to use. We also registered at Kohl's and Target though for shower gifts and whatnot. It is easy to notify your guests, they have a print out you can use and just make copies and use a paper cutter to cut them in quarters. Good Luck!
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My FI and I have lived together for 2 years now and are fortunate to have gotten pretty much every essential to live from his parents (we lucked out on moving into our place right before christmas and we got bombarded with house warming gifts from them) so in the end we dont really need anything 'house wise' (if we get an extra blender, toatser, glasses etc we wont have enough space to put it)
So we heard about doing a honeymoon registry to help pay for it or little things while we are there (like a dinner, or a spa day etc)
so I am wondering if any of you have done this?
what company/sites did you use? (keeping in mind I am a Canadian bride and most honeymoon gift registry websites only cater to the USA)
how did you tell your guests?
was it successful?
Did you register for more than just your honeymoon? (ie, a home store)
I was looking into this site and if anyone has used it, please let me know your thoughts (http://www.honeymoonwishes.com/)