Register or Honeyfund...?

House items are most common for registries, especially kitchen items. Ours have a few upgrades for things like mixing bowls, tupperware, food processor, etc. But then we also had smart home accessories, a travel bag for our dog, camping accessories, etc. We didn't do a honeyfund because 1, we wanted to go on our honeymoon immediately after the wedding so we had to know our budget in advance and not hope people gifted money, 2, my family personally would find it tacky to have a money registry and I didn't want to deal with that, and 3, our physical gift registry was smaller than our guest list so naturally we will get some cash in cards but we didn't have to ask for it.

For a registry a lot of people do upgrades. So nicer dishes, sheets, towels, kitchen appliances etc. Or have you always wanted a roomba or amazon echo? Things like that. As far as a honeyfund it’s just guests giving you cash with a website taking out a percentage to be the middleman. Honeymoons need to be paid in advance so if you can’t afford a honeymoon a honeyfund would only work if you took a delayed honeymoon.

We have had the same convo as we both combined our stuff when we moved in together. For the sake of the bridal shower, we decided to register and put items that we'd appreciate "new" of such as bathroom towels, kitcken towels/pot holders, additional plates (since we only have a set of 4 but realistically if we had people over for dinner it wouldn't be enough) and new silverware.

As for the wedding, we are just advertising what's left on our registry with the honeymoon fund.

We did both!

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We will be taking our honeymoon 2 months after the wedding. Our hotel is "pay at hotel" so we are able to reserve the space and pay later.

I am not a fan of a honeymoon fund at all. I wouldn't contribute to a fund and would just end up getting some other kind of gift.

If I register it will be for all those fun want to have things since we have all the need to have things already. I want to have new sheets, a down pillow topper, new kitchen knives, attachments for my kitchenaid mixer, funky/fun glasses for entertaining, an ice cream sundae set, fun ice cube trays, a new blender for smoothies, new water bottle to fit on our bikes when we go bike riding, maybe even new bikes, maybe new golf equipment since we like to golf together, ooo a volleyball net for our backyard, outdoor lawn games, board games (Nolan is known as the "activity king" amongst our friends and family so these things would not be far fetched for us), a new makeup mirror... so pretty much not your typical registry and I plan to let Nolan have fun scanning whatever he wants

You can do a honeyfund and a registry through Zola.

We did both. We also live together and have for a while, and we own our home. So we registered for a lot of upgrades. I am having 3 showers (sounds like a lot but our families are from different cities) so I figured we would run out of registry items by the time those are finished. So everyone will probably contribute to the Honeymoon fund or bring cash for the wedding.

We did both: Honeyfund & a small registry through Macy’s & BBB.