Honeymoon gift lists...

We're with Thomas Cook and are doing this. With them the guests call Thomas Cook and give the reference, then they can pay over the phone and they get listed on our file so that we can see who paid what and how much etc.

We dont need anything really as we recently bought our house and stocked it with all the classic things you'd put on a guestlist!

I have booked my honeymoon with kuoni and will be using www.buy-our-honeymoon.com/ to setup a honeymoon gift list online. This allows you to create your own gift list with things on it that you would like to do and then you can then ask your guests to pay by cheque, bank transfer or paypal (but this incurs a charge).

Hope this helps.

There are quite a few out there and most will be able to provide you with a list of who paid what (for thank you cards...)

We have a pack from Travel Counsellors who charge £25 to set up the list but you also get cards to put in your invitations and thank-you cards included in that.

Others charge a % from each of your guests, others charge a % of the total value and some offer fee free if your guests donate more than a set amount.

Others that I have used for family weddings have been Honeymoney and First Choice - both of which you could specify certain things like a traditional gift list such as upgrades, excursions, champagne etc.

I've gone with Trailfinders, but I think they work much the same way as Kuoni (and maybe all travel co's) in that the holiday needs to be paid 8 weeks before you leave so if people don't contribute to the lost before that you will need to pay it all yourself.

Then dependant on what money is credited to your list they will give you this onto your debit/credit card to the value of the honeymoon, and anything over that is issued to you as a giftcard.

Thank you to all of you for your replies. Rebecca2286 - a big thank you for the Thomas Cook tip! Thanks to you, we saw a branch today and booked our honeymoon!! :-) we are going to do what you mentioned-quote the ref in the invites and hopefully get some of it paid off! Thanks again! X