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Beginner August 2015

Gift List

mrs_w_to_be, 2 March, 2015 at 21:07 Posted on Planning 0 4

Ok so my fiance and I have spent a lot of time trying to decide what to do about a gift list - we already live together and have everything we need for our home, and neither of us felt comfortable asking for money (just personal choice - we both have a lot of older relatives who have quite traditional views on these things!)

We eventually found a site called Honeyfund where you can basically put anything at all that you want on a list. As we are going on a month long honeymoon (road trip in America) we decided to base our gift list on this. So rather than just asking for a cash contribution for our honeymoon, people can choose from a list of things we want to do on our trip and book something for us (attraction tickets, meals out, hotel upgrades etc etc)

It seemed like a really good compromise for us and we are happy with it - the only thing I'm not sure of is how to present this to our guests? I've read that you shouldn't put the gift list in your wedding invitation, so where do we put it? We weren't planning on having a wedding website

And if we were to put it in the invite, where do we add it in? Because it's not a traditional gift lift from John Lewis or somewhere, I'm thinking if people see the link they will be thinking "what the hell is this"?!

Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

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Latest activity by Daisy Bell, 3 March, 2015 at 13:34
  • AKWedding
    Beginner August 2015
    AKWedding ·
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    I always thought the gift list went in with the invites, one of the many inserts included (the others being maps, information sheet etc). That's what I have seen in the past. I think the Honeyfund is a great idea and your contemporaries should get it (lots of traditions for weddings are not being followed anymore and new traditions being established, moving with the times).

    Things I have seen in the past which might offend people are:

    - Multiple gift lists from a few stores included in the one invite (my friend who received the invite was not impressed by that.

    - Bank account details listed.

    Yours seems fun in comparison.

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  • AKWedding
    Beginner August 2015
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    Oh forgot to say, we are including a mention of our gift list (contributions to honeymoon fund) in the Information Sheet.

    I had read somewhere that ettiquette-wise, that this is considered somewhat rude and we shouldn't mentioned gifts at all, instead we should wait for our guests to contact us and ask about gifts, at which point we would mention that a contribution to our honeymoon fund would be quite nice. ?

    To me, it seems an inefficient way of doing things and we may as well include a mention of the gift-list on the information sheet, if only to save on admin for us and the guests. Plus I have seen it being done before.

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  • *Pugsley*
    Beginner March 2014
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    I also thought the gift lists went in the invites.

    I think it's fine to pop a mention of your honeymoon fund in there.

    As the above poster said, there are some things which some can be a bit offended about or dislike - bank account details, multiple lists, money poems so you seem all good to go!

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  • halloweeny
    Beginner October 2013
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    THere's two ways of doing this. Pop it in the invite OR wait until someone asks you and then send them the gift list.

    Your choice and depends on your mates i'd say

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  • Daisy Bell
    Beginner August 2015
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    I would also mention it in the invite or one of the inserts. We also already live together and have mostly everything so we won't be asking for anything specific either. We won't mention gifts at all but then we are only having a very small wedding.

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