Mr. P and I are a little older and “established” (read: old). So we have plenty of dishes, towels, cookware, and furniture between the two of us. In fact, when I moved in with Mr. P this past summer, I left all my furniture and most of my household items, save a few key AllClad pieces, in my loft (which I rent out furnished).
Anyhoo, instead of gifting us “things” we’ve referred our guests (on our wedding website) to Honeyfund.com, where we “registered” by adding activities from our honeymoon. As I’ve mentioned before, we’re heading to Italy, so we registered dinners, hotels, ferry and gondola rides, train tickets etc. It was quite fun registering, and it actually forced us plan out our trip sooner than we otherwise would.
We noted things that we’re going to definitely do/use. Other couples create a wish list. Either way, Honeyfund is great, and we found it much better than the other sites because it is absolutely free. Other sites like TheHoneymoon.com, Traveler’sjoy.com, and TheBigDay.com charge service fees of between 5.5 and 7.5 percent that are added to the cost of the gift!
Though Honeyfund.com charges you for receiving money via Paypal if your guest charges it with his credit card, it still is better than the others, in our estimation anyway. They are currently in the process of reworking their site, so there are bound to be some hiccups, but we’re still happy with it!
At the end of the day, we were feeling a little uncertain/uncomfortable about how to provide our guests with a way to send their well wishes—and by no means, did we want our guests to feel obligated. So on our wedding website, we just gave our guests three options via web links: Honeyfund.com, and two charities that we support.
Are you creating an alternative registry? What are you including on it?
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