Using a Wedding Gift Registry to Pay for Your Honeymoon
Honeymoon
With all the stresses and difficulties you face during the wedding planning, you cannot wait for your honeymoon. You feel that it is surely the best way to culminate the whole wedding event. However, just before you are able to plan for this much-anticipated trip, you are stunned to see that there is hardly any budget left for it. The budget you have allotted for this occasion has been depleted.
Do not lose heart. The concept of honeymoon wedding gift registry has been recently invented to assist the couple financially in this unforgettable trip. Whether you choose to spend an afternoon in the gondolas in Venice or have an exotic beach getaway in Barbados, a honeymoon gift-wedding registry will help you achieve your dream honeymoon.
So how does this exactly work?
A honeymoon bridal registry works this way: a couple signs up for this kind of registry and guests give gifts that pertain to the couple’s honeymoon. So instead of bequeathing the couple with the usual pots, pans, and other household items, guests can choose among these options, which may include airfare, hotel accommodation, massage or spa services, romantic dinners, gift cards for pocket money, vacation activities (snorkeling, diving, water sports, mountain climbing), and admission tickets to tourist spots.
Where do I find this kind of registry?
Many travel agencies now provide honeymoon gift registry services but an easier route would be to find an online honeymoon bridal registry that would enable guests to access anytime, anywhere.
How do I sign up?
Sign-up process varies from one honeymoon bridal registry site to another but it is generally easy and simple. All it would take is a couple of minutes of your time and then you can work your way to build a wedding website and honeymoon registry. After this, you can spread the word to family and friends so they can start bequeathing you with precious honeymoon gifts that you would never forget.
What do I look for in a honeymoon wedding registry?
Just like with any aspect of your wedding shopping, you also need to be smart when looking for a honeymoon registry. You do not want to go for a registry that would axe you with a high service fee or a registry that would not comply with its promises. Some of the things you need to ask before making a decision include:
- How much does it cost to register?
- How much is the service fee?
- Are there any other fees to pay for?
- What kind of services do you provide?
- Do you help in the announcement of the registry?
- Are gifts redeemable in cash?
- How would you notify use if a gift were purchased?
With so many expenses to take care of for the wedding event, the last thing you need is to worry where you will get the money to spend on your honeymoon. Sign-up with a honeymoon registry so you would have nothing to worry about. This kind of gift is both beneficial for you and the guest. Your guests would surely be happy to give you something that would help you attain the dream honeymoon you have always wanted.
Source: Angela White is a wedding expert writing for Wedding-Favours.ca, an e-commerce store for silver wedding favors and Christmas wedding favors.
What a great article! You make so many valid points about the practicality of a honeymoon registry. My fiance and I actually have a few traditional items on our wedding registry but we went with myregistry.com so that we could add two cash gift funds. The funds are for little extras on our honeymoon trip including a scuba diving adventure and a day at the spa at the hotel we’ve selected. These funds are pretty much the focal point of our registry and so far guests have been contributing which is definitely exciting. We already have all those standard kitchen items so it was the best route for us considering we want to celebrate our honeymoon in style
I forgot to add that even though it seems weird to ask guests for this no one actually minds. Friends and family have actually confided that they preferred contributing to something my fiance and I can enjoy rather than a boring toaster (like Stanley from The Office –haha)
This is the best idea ever! My fiance and I set up a honeymoon fund at MyRegistry.com just a few weeks ago and we have already been given enough money to cover the plane tickets to Aruba! What did we do before the Internet?
We used Honeymoon Wishes for our registry. It was wonderful! We got $6,000 from family and friends- that’s right, $6k!!! We had an amazing honeymoon and the appropriate start to our wedding, which we would NOT have been able to afford without the registry. We already lived together and didn’t need another set of towels or dishes.
I tried to answer some of the questions posed in this article, hopefully this helps other brides
How much does it cost to register? It was FREE, and we got a wedding registry to put details about our wedding, share the story of how we met and share photos.
How much is the service fee? I believe it was around 8% (like taxes), you can have it added to the transaction or taken out of the amount purchased so your guests never see the cost.
Are there any other fees to pay for? Nope, that was it.
What kind of services do you provide? We were able to email and print out registry cards to include in the invitations, plus the wedding website.
Do you help in the announcement of the registry? email and registry cards to design and print (nice options.
Are gifts redeemable in cash? Yep! We went on and requested our money several different times. We received a check in a couple days! It even helped with the deposit of our honeymoon
How would you notify use if a gift were purchased? We received an email. It was all very simple