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23 September 2007 – 9:06 pm

We’re very pleased to announce the launch of a major new feature on Buy Our Honeymoon that has been in development for quite a while: customised notification cards.

We’ve always offered our UK and EU customers a set of 100 registry cards when you sign up for either our Standard or Gold plans — and now, you can choose your design and your own message. Each design corresponds to one of our list themes (although you don’t have to choose the card design that matches your list if you don’t want to).

You can also decide if you’d like to include our telephone number on the cards so that we can help your less Internet-savvy guests reserve an item for you. If you prefer to follow tradition you could put the mother of the bride’s number instead — or simply include an extra thanks.

The new cards are roughly credit-card sized, and include the URL of your own list, so that your guests can go straight to your pages without having to search for you from our homepage.

Our notification card designs

We’re really pleased with how this project has turned out. We liked our old cards but really feels this sets us apart from everyone else who offers this type of service.

But, of course, we’d love to know what you think…

PS: You can order your cards once you’ve chosen your plan — but if any of our already-signed-up customers for 2008 simply must have these new cards, please just get in touch, and we’ll be very happy to sort you out.

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We’re #1!

20 September 2007 – 9:01 pm

…well, in Google searches for honeymoon gift list, anyway, at least for the moment:

Google SERP

We’re completely delighted about this — and it’s just in time for the National Wedding Show at the end of next week!

By Andrew | Posted in Honeymoon Gift List, News | Comments (0)

You and Your Wedding Competition Winners

4 September 2007 – 8:39 pm

We’re very happy to be able to announce that the winners of the recent You and Your Wedding competition to win a free Gold Plan are Nicola and Marc from Tyne and Wear!

Nicola and Marc receive a free, fully-researched and professionally-written honeymoon gift list, in the nick of time for their wedding later this year. We’d like to send them our congratulations and best wishes!

Many thanks also to everyone who entered the competition.  To receive a special You & Your Wedding 20% discount off the cost of a Standard Plan, just get in touch!

By Andrew | Posted in Honeymoon Gift List, Honeymoon Registry, News | Comments (0)

Extra Currencies

23 August 2007 – 12:35 pm

You’ve always been able to list your honeymoon gift list items in one of a range of currencies, and to accept PayPal payments in a different currency.  We simply apply the appropriate currency conversion rate, downloaded each morning from Yahoo! Finance.

Our list of currencies has until now exactly matched the ones supported by PayPal, which meant that although you could list items in the Polish zloty, you couldn’t in the South African rand.

We’ve now changed this, so that we can offer a wider range of currencies for your list, whilst still limiting PayPal payments to a currency which PayPal supports.  By request, we’ve added the South African rand and the Barbadian dollar to our list currencies, and we’ve also removed a handful of  PayPal-supported currencies which hadn’t yet been used.

So, if you use the Barbadian dollar for your list, but accept PayPal payments in US dollars, the value of your list items will be automatically converted at the point your guest clicks the button to visit PayPal and make payment.  This way, not only can you use a wider range of currencies for your list, you also save on PayPal conversion fees.

If you need to use a currency which we haven’t included, please just ask us to add it.

By Andrew | Posted in Honeymoon Gift List, Honeymoon Registry, New Features | Comments (0)

We’re Lens of the Day!

22 August 2007 – 8:20 pm

We’re completely thrilled to announce that our Squidoo lens on creating a honeymoon registry has become an official Lens of the Day!

Our sincere thanks to Kimberly Dawn Wells for her support and nomination!

By Andrew | Posted in Honeymoon Gift List, Honeymoon Registry, Media, News | Comments (0)

Guest FAQs

12 August 2007 – 7:58 pm

We’ve just added another feature to Buy Our Honeymoon that we’re really pleased with: a Frequently Asked Questions section for your wedding guests! This explains how they can pay you, what Buy Our Honeymoon is and how it works, our contact details and where they can find the gift certificate to print off. We believe this will help even the least internet savvy users feel happy and confident about using this service.

I must say that Andrew has been very clever and customised this carefully so that a extra information is displayed if you’ve set up your list to accept payments by PayPal. There are also slight differences between the FAQs depending on whether you’re using our honeymoon registry service in the USA, or our honeymoon gift list service in the UK.

If you’ve got any suggestions for further topics we could add to the guest FAQs, please do get in touch, or leave a comment on this post.

By Shelley | Posted in Honeymoon Gift List, Honeymoon Registry, New Features | Comments (0)

A Handful of Updates

10 August 2007 – 8:31 pm

There’s an assorted selection of delicious morsels we’d like to present for you:

  • We’ve further improved the way we handle gifts of items that you’ve allowed multiple guests to buy for you.  Now, when a guest buys an item, we set a “cookie” on their computer that means they’ll be recognised and remembered the next time they visit the site.  This means that we can grey out the items they’ve already bought from the list if they return to it, saving any confusion.
  • We were delighted to be profiled on Killer Startups last week, and we’re also now listed on the Open Directory Project and Best of the Web.
  • We’ve now set up a Squidoo lens on creating a honeymoon registry with Buy Our Honeymoon, and we’re also on the fantastic new social networking site, Virb.
  • We’ve been working on a new feature that we think some of you are going to love.  We like to offer as much flexibility as we can, and so we now have a couple of alternative domain names that you’ll soon be able to choose between for your list.  This means that, instead of going to buy-our-honeymoon.com, your guests could go to the-gift-of-memories.com or honeymoonpromises.com instead, depending on the mood you’re trying to set with your list.  If you’d like us to switch your list over to either of these two alternative domains, do please get in touch.
By Andrew | Posted in Honeymoon Gift List, Honeymoon Registry, Media, New Features, News | Comments (2)

And the winner is…

23 July 2007 – 7:49 pm

We’re delighted to announce that the winners of a free Gold Plan from the competition in Perfect Wedding magazine are Sharon and Andrew from Exeter!

Sharon and Andrew receive a free honeymoon gift list, researched and fully written to match their honeymoon itinerary and style.

Sorry to all those who entered but didn’t win — but, don’t forget, your entry into the competition still entitles you to a 20% discount off the cost of our Standard Plan.

By Andrew | Posted in Honeymoon Gift List, Honeymoon Registry, News | Comments (2)

Buy Our Honeymoon Goes Global!

16 July 2007 – 8:20 pm

We are now officially following in the footsteps of Robbie Williams in an attempt to conquer America.

We have recently launched a US version of Buy Our Honeymoon and have just begun our marketing process in the States.

Pricing, time zones, and the language gap have all been considerations and we’re pleased with the results.

It’s nice that on the day that we’re fully up and running, one of the trials has turned into our first US sale. The timing is great.

Now let’s just see if Mr Williams can fare as well.

By Shelley | Posted in Honeymoon Gift List, Honeymoon Registry, News | Comments (0)

You’ve already bought this item…

30 June 2007 – 10:44 pm

You can set any items in your honeymoon gift list so that many guests can buy the item for you. This is really handy for those little extras, for contributions towards your travel or accommodation expenses, and for making sure that there’s always something on your list that’s still available to buy at the very last minute.

We’ve noticed, though, that sometimes if a guest buys one of these items, and then returns to your list later, they see that the item is still available to buy, and think that their original gift hadn’t been saved properly, prompting them to buy the item again.

So, we’ve made a small change to try to address this. Now, if a guest tries to re-purchase an item they’ve already bought, the site notifies them that their original gift has been recorded, and that the item is simply available for more than one guest to purchase. Of course, if they’d like to buy a second instance of the gift, they still can.

We hope that this will help to avoid accidental duplicate purchases in your gift history, and to help your guests enjoy your list with confidence.

By Andrew | Posted in Honeymoon Gift List, Honeymoon Registry, New Features | Comments (0)