With our wedding website nearly up and running, we were just about ready to start digitally inviting our guests! But inviting guests means being prepared with a gift registry. And when you need to be prepared to potentially move anywhere in the Western Hemisphere, what kind of gift makes sense? There was only one answer: a honeymoon registry.
Other than insisting our site be ad-free, we simply set out to pick the cheapest user-friendly site. Most of the totally "free" sites shave more off each gift than those sites that request a small upfront payment from us, so there's no wiggling out of some costs. However, the sites with the upfront payment were more user-friendly. We settled on buy-our-honeymoon.com, which offers users some more tasteful domain names including our pick, ourdreamhoneymoon.com. This site allowed us to customize our domain name, use multiple dates (for our UK and US receptions), go completely bilingual English/French, *and* list our gift prices in three different currencies (£, $, & €)! I have never seen something so friendly to international couples.
After getting over my reservations (namely, how the hell do you start planning a vacation when you're unemployed, financing a wedding, and worrying how many more months' rent your savings will cover??), there was one thing left to decide: where. We wanted some place exotic but not too dangerous, affordable but not dirt cheap, and good to visit over the winter, by which time we hope to have landed wherever my next job will take us. I've been dying to return to Argentina since 2009, when I missed out on Patagonia. And with this sort of notice — we're planning for New Year's 2018 — it's enough time for Nicolas to pick up some basic Spanish. So we made our decision.
Soon, I was waxing rhapsodic about buy-our-honeymoon.com. I discovered that for a mere £5 to £10, I could point anywhere on the planet and get a fully customized honeymoon itinerary, complete with activities, descriptions, and prices. Within a few hours of saying the word, I was adding to, modifying, and pruning our itinerary to polish it into our dream vacation. Suddenly, I'd won days of my life back for job hunting.
It's kind of exciting to know that when the dust has settled, though goodness knows where we'll be living, we know where we'll be ringing in the new year 2018!
Other than insisting our site be ad-free, we simply set out to pick the cheapest user-friendly site. Most of the totally "free" sites shave more off each gift than those sites that request a small upfront payment from us, so there's no wiggling out of some costs. However, the sites with the upfront payment were more user-friendly. We settled on buy-our-honeymoon.com, which offers users some more tasteful domain names including our pick, ourdreamhoneymoon.com. This site allowed us to customize our domain name, use multiple dates (for our UK and US receptions), go completely bilingual English/French, *and* list our gift prices in three different currencies (£, $, & €)! I have never seen something so friendly to international couples.
After getting over my reservations (namely, how the hell do you start planning a vacation when you're unemployed, financing a wedding, and worrying how many more months' rent your savings will cover??), there was one thing left to decide: where. We wanted some place exotic but not too dangerous, affordable but not dirt cheap, and good to visit over the winter, by which time we hope to have landed wherever my next job will take us. I've been dying to return to Argentina since 2009, when I missed out on Patagonia. And with this sort of notice — we're planning for New Year's 2018 — it's enough time for Nicolas to pick up some basic Spanish. So we made our decision.
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| A screenshot of our honeymoon registry |
It's kind of exciting to know that when the dust has settled, though goodness knows where we'll be living, we know where we'll be ringing in the new year 2018!
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