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I'm using Honeyfund.  I think I did a better job designing my site than the samples.  If you want to see mine, let me know, but I won't post it here because it has personal info.

Hey hesallmine!

As someone above said, we registered with Honeyfund.  When you set up a registry with them, you list items such as airfare, hotel costs, food, etc. Just as you would a toaster, dishes, etc.

If you check out their site, there's a pretty good explanation of how it works, with examples.

Just remember, you can be as creative as you want with it; you can list absolutely anything as a gift, because in the end, it's all just money that's being given to you.  We registered for room service, extra towels, cab fare, a memory card for the computer - all kinds of stuff.

If you have any other questions, just let me know! 

I haven't officially released it to the guests.  I think most will receive it well.  I asked one of my non-wedding forums what they thought of the idea and most thought it was cool and wished the idea had been around when they got married.  The more creative gift givers on the forum rejected it saying it takes away the creativity of the gift giving process.   Of course, there are no rules that say one must use a registry.  The drawbacks are explaining to people that we don't need another toaster no matter how much they insist.  I expect to hear that more from the older crowd when my bridal shower invites are sent out.

Another concern of mine is what the bridal shower guests will do.  If they use the Honeyfund, I will have nothing to open at the shower.

To answer your second question, we haven't had a single problem or complaint with our honeymoon registry.  In fact, it's been really well received; guests have combined items to make gift "packages" for us, even!

Here was my Honeyfund.  My first post in this thread was two months ago and now I am reporting the final results-we invited about 60 people and had 6 people/couples put a total of $430 toward it.  I am not disappointed.  None of the people invited to my wedding were what I would consider "well off."  I felt very pressured to have a traditional registry and did get one at Bed Bath and Beyond, but didn't put a ton of items on it.   The older members of the family bought off of the BB&B registry (as predicted).  My bridal shower gifts were a mixture of  BB&B items and unique gifts and personalized gifts (very cool).  One person bought a bridal shower gift from the Honeyfund.  Not a single person bought off of the MyRegistry.com website.  It failed completely.

Honestly, I can't decide if I would do the honeymoon registry again.  I felt I got a lot of flack from family for asking for money in that manner.  Husband said without a doubt he would do it again, but he didn't get to hear the comments made about it (gossip that made it back to me).