Earlier this month, a CNN article on honeymoon registries recommended that couples using a service such as ours should “avoid extensive itemization” — wow did that get us thinking, because we couldn’t disagree more! We think it’s important to break your gifts down into “guest-sized chunks”. We find that guests engage with detailed, varied registries [...]
Category Archives: Honeymoon Registry
Improvements to bank transfer registries
17 May 2011 – 8:10 pm
With Buy Our Honeymoon, you can link your honeymoon registry to your PayPal account, so that your guests can make immediate payment for their gifts using their credit or debit card. And although the majority of our customers do precisely this, some couples choose instead to receive cash or cheques on the day of their [...]
Happy Birthday to buy‑our‑honeymoon.com!
5 April 2011 – 1:14 pm
Back at the beginning of April 2007, we flipped the switch and made buy-our-honeymoon.com live to the world. We couldn’t be more happy to be celebrating our fourth birthday. Cake and goody bags for all! This last year has seen a massive 20% increase on the number of couples signing up to use our service [...]
Use Swedish on your multilingual wedding gift list
10 March 2011 – 12:10 pm
Towards the end of last year, we launched a new feature where you can display your honeymoon gift list in more than one language. This is brilliant for couples with international family and friends: your wedding guests can view, reserve and pay for items on your registry wherever they live, and our service supports multiple [...]
The top 5 honeymoon destinations of 2010
11 February 2011 – 12:13 pm
We’ve helped couples using our honeymoon registry service to visit around 150 different countries across the globe, taking anything from a few days’ city break to an entire year’s circumnavigation. So we thought it might be interesting to take a look at the most popular destinations for couples using Buy Our Honeymoon in 2010 — [...]
4 recent small improvements
9 December 2010 – 12:13 pm
Here at Buy Our Honeymoon, we’re constantly making small adjustments and improvements to our service, to try to provide the best wedding list service we possibly can. Some of these — such as our recent multilingual registry feature — deserve a full blog post all of their own. Others are smaller, incremental improvements and changes, [...]
Hiding your registry from Google
26 November 2010 – 12:24 pm
As part of our honeymoon wedding list service, we try to make sure that the introductory page of your registry can be found in Google, Yahoo and Bing. This is because many wedding guests expect to be able to get to a couple’s wedding list by entering its web address into their favourite search engine. [...]
Multilingual wedding lists in Italian and German
10 November 2010 – 12:47 pm
At the end of September, we launched a new feature to our wedding list service where you can provide your honeymoon registry in more than one language. This is great for couples with international families: not only can you list gifts in multiple currencies, you can also have your registry appear in English and up [...]
The Ethical Wedding Supplier Pledge
18 October 2010 – 10:54 am
The wonderful English Wedding blog has just launched a new initiative that we’re wholeheartedly behind: an Ethical Wedding Supplier Pledge. Wedding suppliers who sign up promise to: Never charge more for a wedding than they would for any other event. Care about customer service and make shopping with their company a pleasant experience for brides [...]
Improving our homepage search
8 October 2010 – 12:44 pm
We love to be able to make improvements to our wedding list service in response to customer suggestions. We recently received an email from one of our customers in the US, who had an idea regarding the search facility on our homepage that lets your guests go directly to your registry by entering your surname [...]
