The September 2010 issue of Perfect Wedding magazine has just hit the shelves, featuring Shelley’s expert opinion on the hot topic of whether it’s OK to ask your guests for money instead of a gift. We were really honoured to be asked to contribute — and it was great to see that our debate opponent [...]
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The Honeymoon Testers
3 August 2010 – 1:52 pm
Earlier this year, we were thrilled to learn that Mark and Denise Duffield-Thomas, who’d used our service for their wedding gift list, had won the Ultimate Job In The World competition. Organised by luxury honeymoon specialists Runaway Bride and Groom, the job entails travelling the world, trying out dream honeymoon locations, and blogging the results [...]
Alternatives to PayPal
22 July 2010 – 5:37 pm
With Buy Our Honeymoon, your guests pay the value of their gifts to you directly. We don’t collect payment from your guests, and we don’t charge a commission on the gifts you’re given. This means your wedding gifts are totally secure, and available to you the moment they’re given. Some of our customers choose to [...]
Wedding gift spending
30 June 2010 – 5:36 pm
Earlier this week, our friends at men’s wedding magazine Staggered unearthed some research showing that wedding guests are, on average, spending less on wedding gifts now than they had in 2008. The research claimed that guests are spending £28.26 now, compared to £42.91 two years ago — a dramatic cut of 34%. This prompted us [...]
Three minor updates
21 June 2010 – 11:50 am
In our efforts to be the UK’s best wedding list service, we’re always keeping an eye open for things we could do better, and making little improvements whenever we can. This past week, we made three. Our new system to automatically log PayPal gift payments is working brilliantly, and means that we can now be [...]
Faster notifications
28 May 2010 – 9:42 pm
We’ve made a small change to the way we send out notification emails for gifts reserved on your honeymoon registry. Since last September, we’ve delayed sending these emails for an hour, so that guests have an opportunity to cancel any gifts that had been reserved by mistake. This has proved to be a very useful [...]
PayPal gift transactions
21 May 2010 – 5:27 pm
At Buy Our Honeymoon, we don’t ever touch a penny of the gifts made to you by your friends and family, but your guests can nonetheless use a credit or debit card to make a simple online payment directly into your PayPal account, without needing to set up an account of their own. This means [...]
Wedding list, cash, or honeymoon vouchers?
6 May 2010 – 11:52 am
Earlier this week, Wedding Magazine published the results of its latest annual reader survey, revealing that nearly half of respondents would prefer cash wedding gifts. As the UK’s top honeymoon fund website, we’re not at all surprised by this! But of course, the details behind the headline get even more interesting: …forty-five per cent prefer [...]
A quick note on the volcano
21 April 2010 – 10:10 am
Mercifully, it looks like flights are starting to resume in and out of Europe — but we know of many of our customers whose honeymoons are likely to have been seriously affected by the Eyjafjallajökull volcano. We sincerely hope that the travel situation will start to return to normal, but the ongoing chaos may well [...]
Buy Our Honeymoon turns 3
2 April 2010 – 7:48 am
It’s our third birthday! Back in 2007, we launched a new honeymoon gift list service in the UK, with what was then a completely unique approach — instead of taking a commission out of gifts reserved through the site, we’d charge a simple, honest one-off fee, and provide a free trial with absolutely no obligation. [...]
