Earlier today, the lovely Rachel Southwood, Editorial Director of Wedding Ideas magazine, appeared on the Vanessa Feltz radio show here in London, to join a discussion on the value, longevity and usefulness of “best china” sets. Do people still want a full formal dinner service as part of their wedding gift list? Do people who […]
Category Archives: Media
The Wedding Insider
12 September 2012 – 6:26 pm
Earlier this year, we were delighted to be approached by the award-winning bridal jewellery designer Tracey Phillips, to see if we’d like to contribute some thoughts to a new book with tips and advice on all aspects of planning a wedding. The Wedding Insider is now available on Amazon, and we couldn’t be happier to […]
10 fun facts about us
14 May 2012 – 3:45 pm
We were delighted to receive an invitation last week to join Style Me Pretty‘s Little Black Book of hand-picked wedding vendors. As part of the screening process we were asked to provide ten facts about us and our company. We thought it might be fun to post them here too! Buy Our Honeymoon is run […]
Mumpreneur UK Gold Award
15 February 2012 – 12:51 pm
We’re completely thrilled to reveal that Buy Our Honeymoon has won a Mumpreneur UK Gold Website Award! The award acknowledges visually pleasing and easy-to-navigate web sites run by parents or parents-to-be, and we’re very honoured to be in such excellent company. Mumpreneur UK offers a brilliant support network to mums (and dads) in business, and […]
Greenwich Magazine
3 May 2011 – 2:26 pm
We were delighted to be approached about participating in a piece in the Spring 2011 issue of Greenwich Magazine, a free local magazine distributed to homes throughout Greenwich — where our offices have been located since we launched — together with Blackheath and Docklands in London. The article discusses local businesses that have focussed on […]
The Wedding Ideas Awards 2011
17 January 2011 – 4:06 pm
We’re completely thrilled to announce that Buy Our Honeymoon was one of only five nominees for Best Wedding Gift List in the Wedding Ideas Awards 2011! This is the second year running that we’ve been shortlisted, and we’re enormously grateful to all our customers from 2010 who were kind enough to support us with their […]
8 more amazing wedding blogs to follow
26 October 2010 – 4:40 pm
Earlier in the year, we posted a roundup of 8 brilliant wedding blogs to follow, and it’s high time we brought you the sequel. Here’s a further selection of outstanding blogs and online resources we’ve found in our travels around the web, looking for information and trends to help us bring you the best wedding […]
Perfect Wedding Hot Topic
11 August 2010 – 10:06 am
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
