A HoneyFund

It's probably a relatively new concept, but the idea of a Honeymoon Registry is slowly increasing in popularity. I actually wasn't familiar with the concept myself until pretty recently. Our close friends John and Amy had done one for their wedding this past November (Mike is going to ask John about it some more). BUT at the urging of one of my good friends, she encouraged me to look into it some more. She knows that we have a big honeymoon trip planned, and since we're pretty well established in our home that this might be a good supplement to our traditional registries. There's a good article on wikipedia and also on the Wall Street Journal which describes more about the concept if like me you're not that familiar with them.

Since Hawaii is a pretty big trip, doing a HoneyFund might help us with being able to afford some of the additional excursions and activities we'd like to do on our Honeymoon. I started doing some research on the subject, I was (a little) surprised to learn that the majority of these websites are not free, and they charge a fee to the couple upwards of 7%, so if you give a gift of $100, the couple only receives $93, so I decided to go with the Honeyfund which is completely free and there are no charges for the couple or the gift givers. 

It's still very much a work in progress and under construction (I didn't put an introduction message or any additional details about our trip yet) but I started outlining a few activities (which was really fun and exciting researching) on there just to test it out and see how I like it.