Honey Moon vs. Registry

Any website you do a “honey fund” through will take a portion of your guests’ gifts. I would just not register and use the cash you get for a honeymoon. People know that cash is always a good gift for weddings.

I did honeymoon fund via zola. i found though that most people preferred buying the activities vs giving to the general honeymoon fund. for instance i broke mine down to the activities of the honeymoon e.g. "$100 for dinner cruise for 2" because they knew what exactly that was going towards.

Yes! I recommend it. I don't think it's tacky at all.

We own our home & have been living together for years so we don’t need things. We only have a honeymoon fund set up on our website. I’ve had people ask if we’re registered anywhere & the relief on their faces when they’re told we only have a honeymoon fund set up is priceless! They don’t have to go out or look on a registry is a huge relief for our guests.

Like Melle said, the honeymoon registries I've seen have been towards specific things towards the honeymoon rather than just paying towards the honeymoon itself. Someone I knew wanted to do a backpacking trip, so they registered for backpacking equipment, train rides, plane rides, car rides, tickets to museums, tours they wanted to do. And people could buy whatever they wanted and it would go directly towards that item. So if you do one I'd probably suggest doing it that way for those who want to give a gift vs. money.

The only things that I would add to the above PPs is that it doesn't hurt to have a couple of physical items even if they're not exactly needs as not every guest will be comfortable giving cash or contributing to a fund even if they know what they're contributing to that way you don't wind up with random things.

Requesting money in any form is rude. Many people do not give cash gifts for any occasion and will instead buy you something you may not want and can't return.. Have the honeymoon you can afford without guests paying for it. If you have household items already, register for fun stuff related to shared hobbies/interests.

We are doing a honeyfund with all of the activities we plan to do. It isn’t that we can’t afford to do these things, we can and already have it budgeted. But, like you, we have an established home and we already purchase things we need or want for ourselves. Registering for things we don’t really need or want made zero sense to us.
We plan to send pictures to the people that do gift us the specific activities in addition to the thank you note.

We did Honeyfund, plus two small retail registries, and it worked well! Easy to use, convenient, tiny fee. Just follow the same etiquette as with registries.. don’t include your online fund on the wedding invitations but wait for guests to ask if you’re registered anywhere then you can share the info.

I absolutely love this idea! We are in the same boat with having all of the necessities and living together already 🥰