September 2010
2 posts
Display your honeymoon registry in more than one... →
Our honeymoon registry service is uniquely suited to helping couples with international families. Because your wedding list is available online, any of your guests with an internet…
Wedding post boxes and honeymoon albums →
We’ve always been big fans of the design work of Zoe Rusga, better known as Bunny Delicious. Her playful, handmade, and meticulously detailed wedding stationery is quite unlike anything else we’ve…
August 2010
2 posts
Perfect Wedding Hot Topic →
The September 2010 issue of Perfect Wedding magazine has just hit the shelves, featuring Shelley’s expert opinion on the hot topic of whether it’s OK to ask your guests for money instead of a…
The Honeymoon Testers →
Earlier this year, we were thrilled to learn that Mark and Denise Duffield-Thomas, who’d used our service for their wedding gift list, had won the Ultimate Job In The World competition. Organised…
July 2010
1 post
Alternatives to PayPal →
With Buy Our Honeymoon, your guests pay the value of their gifts to you directly. We don’t collect payment from your guests, and we don’t charge a commission on the gifts you’re given….
May 2010
1 post
PayPal gift transactions →
At Buy Our Honeymoon, we don’t ever touch a penny of the gifts made to you by your friends and family, but your guests can nonetheless use a credit or debit card to make a simple online…
April 2010
2 posts
A quick note on the volcano →
Mercifully, it looks like flights are starting to resume in and out of Europe — but we know of many of our customers whose honeymoons are likely to have been seriously affected by the…
Buy Our Honeymoon turns 3 →
It’s our third birthday! Back in 2007, we launched a new honeymoon gift list service in the UK, with what was then a completely unique approach — instead of taking a commission out of…
February 2010
2 posts
The Bride’s Book →
We were delighted to learn that The Bride’s Book, an award-winning wedding magazine based in the Carolinas and serving the southwestern United States, had chosen to feature us in their new…
Refinements to big-ticket items →
One of the great things about your Buy Our Honeymoon gift registry is the flexibility you have in how to divide up and present the items on your list. As well as single items, which become…
January 2010
1 post
10 more fantastic theme customisations →
Back in July, we showcased some of the most exciting ways you’d all customised your wedding list pages using our design themes. We’re so proud to have such creative and talented customers, we…
December 2009
2 posts
The Stars Look Down →
Sometimes, the comments on a blog post become something quite wonderful in themselves.
New theme – Vintage →
We’ve now released a brand-new design theme for Buy Our Honeymoon — Vintage. Evoking the roaring forties or the glamourous fifties, it features a beautiful floral patterned background, a…
November 2009
1 post
So You’re EnGAYged →
We’re completely thrilled to have been approved as a pro-gay wedding vendor on So You’re EnGAYged, an excellent wedding resource for same-sex and allied couples.
So You’re…
September 2009
1 post
Gift notifications for guests →
Here at Buy Our Honeymoon, we’re endlessly searching for ways to make sure the experience of reserving gifts from your wedding list is as smooth and enjoyable for your guests as possible….
August 2009
3 posts
“The U.K.’s National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE)...”
– Batshittistan — a land where Hawking is probably Kenyan or something.
South-east London as seen on Pathé newsreels →
Including some great footage of the Blackwall Tunnel and Cutty Sark
Lots of small updates →
We’ve got some great things cooking for the rest of the year, but we’re always making small improvements and little changes to Buy Our Honeymoon in response to customer feedback and enquiries…
July 2009
2 posts
The Top 5 theme customisations (so far) →
Since we launched our customisable themes earlier this year, we’ve been fascinated to see the different photos you’ve uploaded, and the ways you’ve found to make our designs all your own.
A…
A thought too long for Twitter
“This isn’t to say I don’t use XHTML. It’s a fine medium for further processing (e.g. applying XSLT). But it’s not right for serving up to browsers verbatim.”
— Jabbering Giraffe
Couldn’t agree more. XML, and thus XHTML, is fantastic as part of a pipeline. XML processing tools let you add custom elements, metadata, display hints, settings and so forth and then a quick dash...
June 2009
2 posts
Adding a password to your pages →
If you’d like to add an extra level of privacy to your wedding gift list, you can now ask your guests to enter a password on your introductory page before they can view your full registry.
Customising themes for different destinations →
One of our aims in our recent launch of customisable themes on Buy Our Honeymoon was to make each design more versatile for different destinations and types of honeymoon. We’ve just added a…
May 2009
1 post
A Small Change to Guest Payments →
We introduced the Gift Review screen back in 2007 so that guests who reserved more than one item from your list could click through to your PayPal account to pay for all their gifts in one…
April 2009
7 posts
Mexico Honeymoon Cancellations →
The BBC has reported that some tour operators are cancelling flights to Mexico from the UK for the next few weeks as a result of the outbreak of swine flu in the area, and the UK Foreign and…
Themapalooza! →
We’ve now rolled out the final phase of our theme updates for Buy Our Honeymoon — and we’ve made some changes to every single design! Here’s a rundown of all the updates we’ve put in place…
our-wedding-registry.com →
Couples from the US and Canada can now select our-wedding-registry.com when you sign up for your free trial.
We offer a range of web addresses, and your guests are always shown the domain…
More customisable themes →
We’re very pleased to announce that almost all our themes are now customisable with your own photos. We’ve now adapted a further five themes on top of the four designs we’d already worked…
Gift notification preferences →
We’ve added a couple of extra settings to help out with your gift notification emails that are sent whenever a guest reserves an item from your honeymoon wedding list.
Normally, we’ll send you…
Happy 2nd Birthday Buy Our Honeymoon! →
♫ Celebrate good times — c’mon it’s a celebration! ♫ — well for us, anyway!
It’s been two years since we launched Buy Our Honeymoon and we never expected it to have the…
March 2009
7 posts
our-wedding-list.co.uk →
Couples from the UK and EU can now select our-wedding-list.co.uk when you sign up for your free trial.
We offer a range of web addresses, and your guests are always shown the domain option…
FFS →
BT Webwise (Phorm) should, without question, allow website owners to block them through robots.txt without having to also block either Google or Yahoo! — in other words, it should observe rules set for a “Phorm” user-agent or equivalent, even if the technology means that there’s no such user-agent in practice.
iPhone 3.0 to offer MobileMe users "Find My... →
A while ago, Shelley had the idea of a device that would allow you to broadcast your location to the internet in case of emergency. This comes close.
Follow us on Twitter! →
It’s taking over the world, and we love it too. You can now follow Buy Our Honeymoon on Twitter!
We’ll be posting all the latest developments here at Honeymoon Towers as they happen,…
Paradise and Road Trip →
Last week, we asked which of our honeymoon gift list themes we should next adapt for you to be able to customise with your own photos. Many thanks to all of you that responded!
The results…
Customise your theme! →
We’re really pleased to announce that you can now customise the Scrapbook and Rose Petals themes on Buy Our Honeymoon with your own photos! This has been our most-requested feature for some…
February 2009
5 posts
Couples with international families →
We like to think that the flexibility we’ve built into our honeymoon gift list service makes it especially useful for couples with families in more than one country.
Let’s say you’re from the…
Cheeky blighters →
As discovered by Sunerton.
WatchSony Releases New Stupid Piece Of Shit That Doesn’t Fucking Work
Asking for contributions →
Normally, each of the items on your Buy Our Honeymoon wedding gift list is shown with a price and a little button that states Buy this item (or, if you’re not using PayPal to collect your…
January 2009
9 posts
London from above, at night →
Somewhere, close to the right-hand edge of #14, is my home.
Recent media coverage →
Towards the end of last year, we received a message from Katie Bowman, features editor of the Sunday Times Travel Magazine, letting us know that she’d written about us for an article…
Towards the end of last year, we received a message from Katie Bowman, features editor of the Sunday Times Travel Magazine, letting us know that she’d written about us for an article on honeymoon gift lists in the February issue.
We were very excited to pick up our copy when it hit the shops, and delighted to see ourselves right there on page 36. Here’s what the magazine says about us:
You...
Recent media coverage →
Towards the end of last year, we received a message from Katie Bowman, features editor of the Sunday Times Travel Magazine, letting us know that she’d written about us for an article…
Minor Delays →
I once had plans for a trilogy of novels: “Monument”, “Temple”, “Angel”, the connection with the tube entirely coincidental and unmentioned. This is better, not least because Holly can actually…
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