Honeymoon registries are becoming more and more popular among couples, especially as the cost of honeymoons increase. Honeymoon registries are easy to use and allow a couple to register for any part of their honeymoon - from airfare, to hotel, to meals, tours or spa days. Couples list the parts of their honeymoon, and their guests purchase "gift segments" towards those items. For instance, if a couple needs $2000 for their hotel, they can request 40 gift segments of $50 each. Guests can purchase as may of the $50 gift segments as they want towards the hotel gift on the registry. By allowing guests to purchase gift segments towards specific gifts, it is a much more personal gift-giving experience than handing a check and not having any idea what it is spent on. By purchasing parts of identifiable gifts, a honeymoon registry looks and feels much like a traditional registry from the guests' perspective.
Most honeymoon registries charge a fee for the service, but you should never pay a fee unless it is collected from gifts made through the registry. Some honeymoon registries will add the fee to the gift that the guest is making, others will deduct the fee from the cash gift before forwarding the money to the couple...and some sites give the couple a choice between what fee structure they want. Usually the fee is less than what your guests would have paid on sales tax, gift wrapping and shipping a traditional gift.
Honeymoon registries are easy to set up - and are easy for guests to use. Another great thing about honeymoon registries is that a couple can sit up from the comfort of their own home computer - rather than driving around town registering in the neigborhood stores. A honeymoon registry can be the only registry a couple set up, or it can be an alternative to a more traditional registry. Suprisingly, couples may find that their guests would prefer to gift towards the making of a wonderful honeymoon memory over new towels and linens.
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