Buy Our Honeymoon - The Wedding List For Couples Who Don't Need More Stuff

A question frequently asked by couples ordering their wedding stationery is how to go about telling guests that they would prefer a donation to their dream honeymoon rather than a new toaster. There are poems you can include with your invitation to this effect and you either love 'em or hate 'em, it's a totally personal choice! Our guest blogger this week is Andrew Green from Buy Our Honeymoon with the perfect solution to this dilemma!

What do you do for your wedding gift list if you don’t need a new set of spoons or bath towels? Perhaps you’d prefer to swap traditional household gifts for the honeymoon of your dreams — but the thought of simply asking for cold, hard cash fills you with dread?

A honeymoon wedding list works in a very similar way to a department store gift registry, but instead of kitchen implements or bed linen, you put together a list of experiences, activities and contributions to make your honeymoon the trip of a lifetime.

Imagine champagne chilling in your upgraded hotel suite, a gourmet meal in the flickering candle light as the ocean laps nearby.  It’s all so much more appealing than a blender — and so much more appealing for your guests, too, who’ll feel that they’ve given you a real gift instead of merely donating to an anonymous pot of cash.

Buy Our Honeymoon is the UK’s top honeymoon gift list service. You can select from a variety of web addresses for your guests to visit, personalise your pages with your own photos, and add absolutely anything you wish to your online list. You can even mix honeymoon contributions  with household items if you’d like.

The site offers a free 7-day trial, and takes no commission out of the gifts you receive. You can receive payment for any gifts reserved from your list in whatever way suits you best — in cash on your wedding day, by cheque through the post, as a bank transfer, or online using a credit or debit card into your own PayPal account.

Buy Our Honeymoon coordinates and manages your gift money, but doesn’t collect gifts on your behalf. This means your gifts are completely safe, and are yours from the moment they’re given.

There’s a wide range of sample wedding lists showcasing the beautiful design themes and different approaches to putting together your list. And if you get stuck, Buy Our Honeymoon offers a unique Helping Hand service to track down and copy over the best ideas from the site’s thousands of successful lists, to yours.

Buy Our Honeymoon was created by Shelley and Andrew Green to use for their own wedding gift list, and was met with such an enthusiastic response from their guests that they were convinced to launch the site nationwide.

For more information on how to make the most of your honeymoon gift list, visit Buy Our Honeymoon  or call 0845 224 0189. Find us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter! 

Also, a quick reminder that the brilliant Wedding Ideas Magazine Awards  has now started. You can find Buy Our Honeymoon in the drop down for Best Gift List (and Lil'Guy Invites under Best Stationery) - please do go and vote, it means so much to all of us involved in the industry!

Zebedeez Jewellery

Favours and gifts are always hot topics when planning a wedding, budgets and ideas vary widely. Today we welcome Zoe from Zebedeez Jewellery  who makes a plethora of ranges from tiaras to favours for your wedding!

There are so many different things now available for wedding favours….. Anything goes, classic, quirky, sweet  and fun it is completely your choice.  With the costs of weddings rising there are things to suit every budget, and this is what I try to provide with all my items. I create ready produced items, or bespoke items for the bride and when doing a consultation always get an idea of budget so that we can stick within it, or as near to… as much as possible.

The most recent wedding favours that are seeming popular from brides are the wine glass charms, however I have created clip on Swarovski pendants to suit the brides colour scheme, fabric hearts, and have more recently gone into individual bags of sweets/homemade fudge for your guests.. These come beautifully packaged in either organza bags or cellophane bags with tags and can be personalised with the guests name if required.

I have lots of ideas coming up for the future including lavender bags, fancy pegs,  key rings and lots more… so keep your eyes out!

You can visit Zoe's various outlets: Folksy; Etsy; Zebedeez Weddings ; Zebedeez Jewellery 

You can also follow her on her Facebook Jewellery Page, her Facebook Gifts and Crafts Page and on Twitter!

Wine Glass Charms

It can sometimes be difficult to find gifts for people that are a little out of the ordinary.  Mrs LG is often being asked for ideas ......

Its always lovely to be invited to guest blog & I hope we can show you a few different options for your bridal wedding gifts.

Firstly, I guess we better start with what we do best! Wine Glass Charms...not everyone knows what they are or what to do with them so quite simply they are charms for wine glasses. If you've ever been to dinner party where the host was using them, you'll remember straight away! They're brilliant for providing a talking point, not to mention having the added benefits of identifying everyone's glass. You can do this by colour, design or dropper....endless possibilities. I'm very lucky to have a lovely spacious kitchen/diner so when we have guests over, we eat & entertain in the same room. My wine glass charms are all black & crystal clear as my decor is black, white & silver. I have each charm slightly differently designed so each guests glass has its own identity and my decor is complemented whether we're standing around nattering or seated at the table. Mr WGC & I use them even if its just us having a cheeky glass on a Friday evening.....they just add a touch of twinkly sparkle to the glass and lets face it, there's always room for something that makes you smile!

Solitaire

Enchanted

When choosing wine glass charms for your bride & groom, you can pick a colour to complement their home decor or you can go with a design thats differently coloured and suits their style. Either way, you know you're giving a gift that's unique, personally chosen & an everyday reminder to the couple of their magical day.

We also have a range of gifts for the bridal party, all individually made using Crystallized Swarovski Elements.

For the bride, we have beautiful 'Something Blue' heart charms. They arrive with an organza ribbon in ivory or blue, whichever you prefer, & have so many uses. We have brides who have wrapped them around the stem of their bouquet, had them woven into their hair & even had the ribbon replaced with a chain to wear as a necklace....we can do this for you of course & even provide matching earrings!. Another option is to remove the ribbon & stitch the charm to the brides garter....all you need is imagination!

Something Blue

Something Blue on a bouquet

   

The heart charms are also available in other colours so a bride may wish to choose different keepsake charms for her female bridal guests.....something unique for bridesmaids....they're beautiful hung where the light will catch the facets & send twinkles all round the room.

We also stock a range of bookmarks which make beautiful gifts for everyone. We always have Swarovski Hearts & Flowers & have limited edition ranges of various other Swarovski Charms. They all come gift boxed & we can add a personal card if you wish. There's also a collection of very reasonably priced mobile charms & bookmarks with different Tibetan silver droppers set below Swarovski crystals in the colour of choice.

Page Marker Bookmarks

About Sunshine & Daisies

We love wine glass charms…we love making them, we love selling them, we love seeing our clients pictures & comments about how much they love them…quite simply…that’s what we do! We only use Swarovski crystals because we believe they are the best for sparkle & pzazz & that’s exactly what you deserve. All our collections are available in ‘off the peg’ designs from the website & we ship superfast!

Bedazzled

Come & have a look at the Wine Glass Charms website 

We love chatting via email to hello@wineglasscharms.co.uk, on the phone at 0845 45 900 28

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So do get in touch if you have anything specific you would like to discuss or to just let us know what you think!

Thanks very much Miki, I know Mrs LG will wholeheartedly agree with you regarding using only Swarovski crystals for the best sparkle!