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honeymoon-memories.co.uk

7 February 2008 – 12:18 am

We’ve now added one further alternative domain option for customers in the UK or EU. When you sign up for your free trial, you can now opt to use honeymoon-memories.co.uk as the domain for your honeymoon gift list.

Your gift list will be branded according to the domain you choose, although you’ll still log in to buy-our-honeymoon.com to make changes to your pages, or to view your gift history.

If you’ve recently signed up for Buy Our Honeymoon and would like to switch your list over to this, or any of the other domains we offer, please just get in touch and we’ll be happy to arrange that for you.

The Amazing Picture Uploadatron

4 February 2008 – 8:18 pm

After what has been one of our longest on-going development schemes, today we are launching a huge new feature to Buy Our Honeymoon.

You’ve always been able to add pictures to items on your list – but previously you needed to resize the images yourself, to have them hosted on an external site (such as Photobucket) and to use some special formatting code to include them on the site.

But as of today, you can upload pictures directly from your computer to your list, and they will automatically be scaled, cropped and positioned to look great. We’ve added some images to one of our sample lists, so you can see the end result!

We’ve tried to make the whole process as easy as possible (don’t forget to check out our friendly online help when you log in), but as always do drop us a line if you need any assistance at all.

Happy uploading everyone!

By Shelley | Posted in Honeymoon Gift List, Honeymoon Registry, New Features | Tags: gif, image, jpeg, jpg, photo, picture, png, upload, wedding | Comments (0)

our-dream-honeymoon.co.uk

28 January 2008 – 6:17 pm

If you’re in the UK or EU, you can now opt to use our-dream-honeymoon.co.uk as the domain for your honeymoon gift list. Just choose from the list of alternative domains when you’re signing up for your free trial.

Your guests will only see the site name that you choose, but you’ll still log in to your list management tools at buy-our-honeymoon.com.

If you’ve already signed-up but would like to switch to any of the other available domains for your list, please just let us know. The old address for your list will continue to work, but your guests will simply be forwarded on to the new address.

By Andrew | Posted in Honeymoon Gift List, New Features | Tags: domain, dream, dream honeymoon, honeymoon, our dream honeymoon, uk, url, wedding | Comments (0)

Sort your list in any order you want

21 January 2008 – 6:05 pm

In the first of many new features we have planned for Buy Our Honeymoon this year, and in response to several customer requests, you can now sort your list items in whatever order you like.

Just as before, you can still break your list up into as many different categories as you want, and list those in whatever order you choose. And, as before, items within a category will be sorted by default into descending price order — but you can now override this for any category. Just click the orange Reorder button and drag your items into the order you want them!

If you have any questions about this, or need assistance with any aspect of managing your list, we’re always on hand to help.

By Andrew | Posted in Honeymoon Gift List, Honeymoon Registry, New Features, News | Tags: build, list, manage, organise, reorder, sequence, sort, wedding | Comments (0)

Super-Generous Guests

10 December 2007 – 10:04 pm

Today we introduced an update to Buy Our Honeymoon, that we think will make things much easier for your guests.

We had a phone call recently from a lady who’d been incredibly generous in her gifts to one of our customers, and who wanted to know if there was any way she could make a single PayPal payment for the various gifts she’d reserved from the list, rather than paying for each one separately.

Although it’s mostly the case that guests buy the single gift that appeals to them most, and that best suits their budget, quite often people will supplement a main gift with something else from the list.

If you’ve asked your guests to bring cash or cheques to your wedding, as we did ourselves, then it’s very easy for your guests to combine several gifts into one — but guests paying by PayPal would have had to make an individual payment for each individual gift.

So, we’ve worked hard on improving this, and we think we’ve managed to solve a surprisingly difficult problem in a really simple way.

Now, instead of visiting PayPal for each gift, guests can view a new Payment Review page, which summarises everything they’ve reserved from your list. If they’re happy with this, they can then move on to PayPal, and send you the total value of their gifts in a single payment.

Your PayPal account history will now include the names of your guests as entered with their gift reservations instead of the titles of each item.

If you have any queries or comments, as always, please do get in touch.

By Andrew | Posted in Honeymoon Gift List, Honeymoon Registry, New Features | Tags: checkout, ecommerce, gifts, guests, payment, paypal | Comments (0)

Our Facebook Page

21 November 2007 – 9:22 pm

We’ve created a new Facebook page for Buy Our Honeymoon — do pop over and say hello.

Ah Facebook, with your lovely walls and pokes and scrabble tournaments and taking over the world…

By Andrew | Posted in Honeymoon Gift List, Honeymoon Registry, Media, News | Tags: facebook, fan, page, social network, technology, web2.0 | Comments (0)

Helping to catch the stragglers

25 October 2007 – 9:59 pm

In response to some customer feedback, we’ve now extended the length of time your honeymoon gift list remains available for your guests.

Previously, a list would expire one week after your wedding date. Although you could still view the list directly, no further items could be reserved from it, and it would no longer be available from the search on our homepage.

However, some couples found they had guests who wanted to reserve items from their honeymoon registries after this point, so we’ve changed the system. Now, your list expires one month after your wedding, which we hope is long enough to catch even the tardiest of guests!

If you’d like your list to remain available for longer still, we’ll be more than happy to set it up for you — just ask!

By Andrew | Posted in Honeymoon Gift List, Honeymoon Registry, New Features, News | Tags: availability, expiry, expiry date, gift list, Honeymoon Gift List, Honeymoon Registry | Comments (0)

“…exhausted, but happy…”

2 October 2007 – 9:51 pm

Now, that was a weekend. The National Wedding Show at Earls Court has gone around for another year, the first at which we’ve exhibited. We spoke to hundreds of you, and the response was overwhelming. It was great to be able to explain our service to many people who hadn’t yet considered the idea of a honeymoon gift list, but who nonetheless weren’t in the market for a traditional bridal registry of household items.

It was also fabulous to speak to so many of you who’d already heard of us, and had made a special effort to find us at the show. In particular, we loved being able to put faces to names for some of our existing customers. Many thanks for coming over to see us!

Shelley answers some queries

Our stand was located next to Berry Scrumptious, who sell wonderful fresh strawberries hand-dipped in Belgian chocolate. Claire, who runs the business from her family farm near Aberdeen, was a really friendly neighbour, and we can attest to the top quality of her produce, since she let us sample the strawberries at the end of each day.

We were opposite Women Photographers, a group of five talented individual photographers operating out of Surrey, and just a short way down from Incognito Artists, who would occasionally treat us all to an impromptu rendition of Nessun Dorma (which, frankly, beats Wannabe any day of the week).

It was a hugely enjoyable, if exhausting, three days. If you didn’t get the chance to talk to us, or if you have any queries about a honeymoon gift list that didn’t occur to you at the time, please do get in touch.

By Andrew | Posted in Events, Honeymoon Gift List | Tags: earls court, exhibition, london, national wedding show, september | Comments (0)

The National Wedding Show

27 September 2007 – 10:08 pm

It’s a huge weekend for us — we’re exhibiting at The National Wedding Show at Earls Court!

For the next three days, we’ll be demonstrating the site, and talking to hundreds of couples in the thick of planning their big day. We went to the show ourselves as an engaged couple back in 2004. At the time, we were in the very early days of sketching out Buy Our Honeymoon to use as our own gift list. We didn’t really expect to one day come back as exhibitors!

If you’re attending the show, please come and see us on stand K15. We’ll post a report as soon as we’ve recovered!

By Andrew | Posted in Events, Honeymoon Gift List | Tags: earls court, exhibition, london, national wedding show, show, wedding | Comments (0)

Now with added domains!

24 September 2007 – 9:28 pm

Hot on the heels of yesterday’s big announcement, we’re pleased to launch another new feature on Buy Our Honeymoon.

We mentioned that we were working on this back in August, but we needed to finish the new notification cards before we could make it available. But now, when you register to create your list, you can choose between three different URL domains (web addresses):

www.buy-our-honeymoon.com
www.the-gift-of-memories.com
www.honeymoonpromises.com

Your guests will only see the site name that you choose, but you’ll still log in to your list management tools at buy-our-honeymoon.com.

If you’ve already signed up for your list, but would like to use one of the alternative domain names, that’s no problem — just get in touch and we’ll be more than happy to switch you over. The old address for your list will continue to work: when anyone uses it, or searches for you on buy-our-honeymoon.com, they’ll simply be taken to your list at the new address.

As always, if you’ve got any queries or comments about this — or suggestions for more new features to make our service even better — please let us have them!

By Andrew | Posted in Honeymoon Gift List, Honeymoon Registry, New Features, News | Tags: address, domain, domain name, gift, memories, promises, url | Comments (0)