Just recently, we had a brilliant suggestion from one of our lovely customers, that we’re really pleased to have put into place now for everyone. On Buy Our Honeymoon, you can divide a gift up in a variety of ways. The simplest is to present an item as a single gift, and once it’s reserved, [...]
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The Wedding Ideas Awards 2012
16 January 2012 – 6:15 pm
For the third year running, Buy Our Honeymoon was in the shortlist for the Best Wedding Gift List in the annual Wedding Ideas Awards! Each year, the brilliant Wedding Ideas magazine organises the UK’s most prestigious consumer awards, with couples voting in their thousands for their favourite wedding suppliers, venues and services. The finalists this [...]
What will our guests think?
9 January 2012 – 3:34 pm
Towards the end of last year, we had an excellent question sent to us on Twitter from a bride who was very interested in setting up a honeymoon gift list with us, but who wanted to know how guests felt about the idea. We set up Buy Our Honeymoon for our own wedding because we’d [...]
Honeymoons and minimoons
9 December 2011 – 6:25 pm
We’ve spoken to lots of couples using our service who are planning a short, simple break after their wedding, in advance of their full honeymoon. Sometimes, this is so they can better schedule their honeymoon to suit the climate of wherever they’re going; sometimes it’s so they can keep their options open and book the [...]
A few tiny improvements
30 November 2011 – 5:58 pm
We don’t like to sit still here at the UK’s top honeymoon wedding list, and we’re often tuning the site in small ways to try to further improve the experience for couples and wedding guests alike. Here are a couple of adjustments we’ve made in the past few weeks. When adding your PayPal account to [...]
Please vote for Buy Our Honeymoon in the Wedding Ideas Awards 2012
4 November 2011 – 4:48 pm
The annual Wedding Ideas Awards are your chance to help celebrate everything that’s fabulous in the UK wedding industry. Voting is now open! For the past two years, we’ve been super-honoured to have been finalists in the Best Wedding Gift List category, losing out both times to the mighty John Lewis. This year as before, [...]
Etiquette and happy gifts
10 October 2011 – 5:25 pm
Last week, we came across a story on the Etiquette Hell blog, of traditional wedding presents, passive-aggressive giving, and bad manners on Facebook. The story, and the comments that follow it, reminded us of some of the reasons we created Buy Our Honeymoon, and the differences between services like ours, traditional gift registries, and simple [...]
Come see us at the National Wedding Show
27 September 2011 – 5:11 pm
We’re really thrilled to be exhibiting again at this year’s National Wedding Show at Earls Court! It’s been a couple of years since the last time we had a stand at the show — and ever since then, we’ve been looking forward to coming back! The London show’s on this coming weekend — Friday 30 [...]
Our new design is live!
13 September 2011 – 5:28 pm
We’re hugely excited to finally unveil our new design for buy-our-honeymoon.com! We’ve been working on this for quite a while, and we’re really pleased with how it’s turned out. Take a look here! It’s been more than 4 years since we first launched our honeymoon registry service — an eternity in internet time! Since then, [...]
When should you create your wedding gift list?
19 August 2011 – 4:46 pm
On Twitter yesterday, the brilliant @ConfessionOfB2B asked when the right time to start compiling your wedding gift list might be. This got us thinking: generally speaking, how far in advance of their wedding day do couples using our service create their list? Of course, you can open your list as soon as you want to. [...]
