Wedding Honeymoon Fund

Eliot

Eliot

Eliot

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Hi Guys,

Looking for advice here,

So myself and my fiancee are getting married next May,
We have decided we want to go to Japan for our honeymoon and rather than do a gift list we thought we'd set up a fund where people can give as little or much as they would like to our fund, I've heard a lot of people have done this lately.

We dont fancy the gift list or a load of gifts bacuse to be onest we have lived together for years and years and already have a place and we don't really need anything (nice place to be in I guess).

Also we have seen the odd gift list before and we just fell a little uncomfortable with the idea, I've seen them with Dysons on it, the works... i'd rather just do something that is totally open to a little as people want to give etc.

Anyway i've had a look at a few sites for this kind of thing as the plan was to put a link on the invite to the fund where ever it maybe, I have looked at Prezola - and a few others, the thing i don't like about how these sites work is that they make you put in set values taht people select and put in a basket.
The whole thing is gettig back to what I dislike personally about this kind of thing, so you basically have to put in set values i.e 10. 20. 100 etc.

All feels a bit wrong to me, Ideally what i would like is a page like

"Eliot + xxxx's Wedding"
With a picture, a little paragraph saying something like

"XXX and I have always had a dream to go to Japan blah blah blah ...."

and then a free number field for people to donate money to it.

Does this exist? Ideally in a form that doesn't tie you in to one holiday supplier?

Thanks,

Eliot
 
We did the same thing really, But just added a poem in the wedding invites that went out.
We'd been together for 9 years had our own houses etc. So didn't really need any gifts, Just donations towards our honeymoon etc.
 
Have you Googled Honeymoon Fund? Never used such but there are plenty. How safe and tied in, you will have to check them out.

Personally (and I like your idea), I would put on your invitations what you intend to do and bank details. Simple! Why pay for someone to manage your honeymoon money? We have loads of really *nice* expensive stuff at the bottom of the wardrobe/under beds that will probably never see the light of day. Perhaps when we're dead and kids/grand kids go to sell them :p
 
Me and my wife got married last December and we were off to Lapland for our honeymoon, we didn't want gifts either and so, I can't quite remember how it was worded but in our invites there was a short poem about not wanting gifts and if you'd like, we'd prefer money for our honeymoon which seemed to work well, we had a letter box type thing on the day where people could post envelopes with money in.
 
Just be straightforward and put it in the wedding invite. Here's how a friend has done it:

Gift List
We know it's not traditonal and it's not the way it's sometimes done

But instead of wedding gifts we would like to catch some sun

So if you would like to give a gift to help celebrate

Some money for our honeymoon would be really great!
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Maybe just stick a PPG account on something like a wordpress site?

That way you don't have any companies taking a cut :)
 
We just said: "If you would like to buy us a gift, then any donation towards our honeymoon would be greatly appreciated"

No need to involve websites and other faffing about.
 
we did a honeymoon fund.
also we are going to japan in a couple of weeks :D (our honeymoon)
we booked with trailfinders and they can setup a portal for you where people can pay into whichever amount they want and you'll get a giftcard after with all the money on it. :)
 
We did this for our honeymoon. We booked the trip via TrailFinders and they offered the service as part of the package. We put the payment link on our wedding invitations.

We went to Canada and the down through the east coast of the US ending in New York for a couple of days.
 
Probably going against the grain, but I always think it's a bit cheeky asking for anything, don't think I'd do it. I'm probably just old fashioned though :)
 
BYTEr said:
Me and my wife got married last December and we were off to Lapland for our honeymoon, we didn't want gifts either and so, I can't quite remember how it was worded but in our invites there was a short poem about not wanting gifts and if you'd like, we'd prefer money for our honeymoon which seemed to work well, we had a letter box type thing on the day where people could post envelopes with money in.
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We did exactly the same at our wedding 6 months ago. Still had one uncle give us a pedal bin for the bathroom. (We have lived in our house for over 2 years so yes its in the loft )
 
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this is what we used.

This is the template, you just change your names, We got ours from the rain Forrest..
Those aren't our names btw haha
 
Fusion said:
Probably going against the grain, but I always think it's a bit cheeky asking for anything, don't think I'd do it. I'm probably just old fashioned though :)
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Gifts at weddings have happened for thousands of years, so its a pretty sure thing your going to receive a gift. Why would you then not tell people how they can best spend there money so they don't waste it? I know id rather contribute to something they need, than to buy them something they already have and is useless to them.
 
We're doing a honeymoon fund. We're not doing it online as we though that cash would encourage people to give small amounts and still have something to bring physically.
 
Fusion said:
Probably going against the grain, but I always think it's a bit cheeky asking for anything, don't think I'd do it. I'm probably just old fashioned though :)
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Lot's of people would buy gifts but most of the time they are completely useless and sit in the garage/attic for 30 years before they are thrown out.

I'd rather people just give cash instead. Usually the gifts are those that person received and can't wait to get rid of it.

So yeah i'd deffo have something on there that says no gifts. If you really want to give us a gift them stick some cash in the envelope so we can get whatever we really want or need.
 
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