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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
You and Your Wedding
22 June 2007 – 7:15 pm
I am so ridiculously excited!! Buy Our Honeymoon is currently on the You and Your Wedding website.
I really feel like a kid at Christmas over this. Why? Because that was the magazine I read when I was planning my (oops I mean our) wedding back in 2004/05.
Details about us are on their homepage and they are also offering a Gold Plan. So that’s two ways to get the full service treatment. Fingers crossed to all!
aboutus.org
19 June 2007 – 8:26 pm
…and, in something of a double whammy of good news today, our page on the aboutus.org wiki has been selected as a Featured Wiki Page!
The aboutus.org site is a huge catalogue of background information about web sites, built and edited by a community of users from across the globe, as a complement to sites like Google and Wikipedia. It’s a great initiative that we’re very happy to have been involved with, and we’re delighted to have been featured on their homepage.
Perfect Wedding Competition
19 June 2007 – 7:45 pm
Remember last month when we told you that a full page advert for Buy Our Honeymoon was in print and told you to watch this space for updates? Well here it is!
The new edition of Perfect Wedding Magazine was released today and they are offering their readers a chance to win a Buy Our Honeymoon gold plan! The prize includes a honeymoon gift list, a choice of design, 100 gift registry cards, a personal consultation and the entire list written for you.
There is also a 20% discount available to everyone who signs up with the special code printed in the magazine and a trial lasting until the end of July.
Good luck folks… winner to be announced next month!
Going to the chapel…
18 June 2007 – 8:24 pm
It’s a very special day today: a Buy Our Honeymoon couple are getting married! The very first to do so since our launch in April 2007.
We want to wish them a wonderful day, a fantastic honeymoon and a happy life together.
Congratulations to the Clarks!
