So You’re EnGAYged

We’re completely thrilled to have been approved as a pro-gay wedding vendor on So You’re EnGAYged, an excellent wedding resource for same-sex and allied couples.

So You’re EnGAYged lists vendors based on their answers to a questionnaire regarding their …

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5 fab services found on Twitter

We’ve been enjoying the Twitter machine for a few months now — it’s great to be able to connect with customers and to keep everyone up-to-date with announcements and developments to the site.  If you don’t already, you should follow us on Twitter here.
It’s …

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Download your Gift History to Excel

We’ve recently had a couple of requests to be able to download your Gift History to a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet, and we agree that this would be a useful addition to the site to help you manage your thank-you cards and messages.
So now, once you’ve received any …

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Gift notifications for guests

Here at Buy Our Honeymoon, we’re endlessly searching for ways to make sure the experience of reserving gifts from your wedding list is as smooth and enjoyable for your guests as possible. Every week, thousands of gifts are made through the site without a hitch, but …

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Lots of small updates

We’ve got some great things cooking for the rest of the year, but we’re always making small improvements and little changes to Buy Our Honeymoon in response to customer feedback and enquiries from guests.

We’ve added Argentine pesos, Colombian pesos, Bahraini …

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The Top 5 theme customisations (so far)

Since we launched our customisable themes earlier this year, we’ve been fascinated to see the different photos you’ve uploaded, and the ways you’ve found to make our designs all your own.
A great many of the images you’ve used have been incredibly beautiful, or …

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Adding a password to your pages

If you’d like to add an extra level of privacy to your wedding gift list, you can now ask your guests to enter a password on your introductory page before they can view your full registry.

One of the great things about Buy Our Honeymoon is that you can set up payment …

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Customising themes for different destinations

One of our aims in our recent launch of customisable themes on Buy Our Honeymoon was to make each design more versatile for different destinations and types of honeymoon.  We’ve just added a couple of new sample lists to the site that we think really illustrate …

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A Small Change to Guest Payments

We introduced the Gift Review screen back in 2007 so that guests who reserved more than one item from your list could click through to your PayPal account to pay for all their gifts in one transaction. Your thank-you text and payment instructions would then be shown as …

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Mexico Honeymoon Cancellations

The BBC has reported that some tour operators are cancelling flights to Mexico from the UK for the next few weeks as a result of the outbreak of swine flu in the area, and the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office is advising against non-essential travel to the region for …

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Themapalooza!

We’ve now rolled out the final phase of our theme updates for Buy Our Honeymoon — and we’ve made some changes to every single design!  Here’s a rundown of all the updates we’ve put in place today:

All our themes now use special fonts for your registry title …

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our-wedding-registry.com

Couples from the US and Canada can now select our-wedding-registry.com when you sign up for your free trial.
We offer a range of web addresses, and your guests are always shown the domain option you choose — although you’ll still log in to buy-our-honeymoon.com to …

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More customisable themes

We’re very pleased to announce that almost all our themes are now customisable with your own photos. We’ve now adapted a further five themes on top of the four designs we’d already worked through: Safari, Zen, Misty Peaks, Flowerpower, and Parchment and Lace.

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Gift notification preferences

We’ve added a couple of extra settings to help out with your gift notification emails that are sent whenever a guest reserves an item from your honeymoon wedding list.
Normally, we’ll send you an email notification message as well as adding details of the gift to …

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Happy 2nd Birthday Buy Our Honeymoon!

♫ Celebrate good times — c’mon it’s a celebration! ♫ — well for us, anyway!
It’s been two years since we launched Buy Our Honeymoon and we never expected it to have the enormous success it’s had.
Since our launch, very nearly 2000 couples have signed up …

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