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Our new design is live!

We’re hugely excited to finally unveil our new design for buy-our-honeymoon.com! We’ve been working on this for quite a while, and we’re really pleased with how it’s turned out.

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When should you create your wedding gift list?

On Twitter yesterday, the brilliant @ConfessionOfB2B asked when the right time to start compiling your wedding gift list might be. This got us thinking: generally speaking, how far in advance of their wedding day do couples using our service create their list?

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Making the site faster

If there’s one thing we don’t like to do here at Buy Our Honeymoon, it’s sit still. We’re always making small changes and improvements to the site, even if it’s just to the systems we use internally to help us with customer or guest enquiries. Sometimes, we add a larger feature you can use when putting together your wedding list or customising your registry pages, other times it’s a minor tweak that doesn’t demand a blog post to announce it.

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Unusual and wonderful registry gifts

Earlier this month, a CNN article on honeymoon registries recommended that couples using a service such as ours should "avoid extensive itemization" — wow did that get us thinking, because we couldn’t disagree more!

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Improvements to bank transfer registries

With Buy Our Honeymoon, you can link your honeymoon registry to your PayPal account, so that your guests can make immediate payment for their gifts using their credit or debit card. And although the majority of our customers do precisely this, some couples choose instead to receive cash or cheques on the day of their wedding, and others leave details on making a balance transfer to their bank account.

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