We are getting married next July, we dont really need a kettle, dinner set, microwave, teapot etc so were thinking of asking people to contribute towards a honeymoon, ive heard that some of the travel agents do some sort of voucher scheme but have no idea how this works ?

Has anyone on here any experience of this sort of thing ? If its a goer, we will just put on the invites that we are not expecting wedding presents (basically we prefer peoples company for the day) but if people feel the need to - then something towards the honeymoon would be nice.

Is this cheeky ?? does it have to be done a few months pre-wedding ? It is going to be quite a locost wedding seems silly to spend thousands on one day when we are perfectly happy with each other and what we have together.

Any thoughts guys & girls ?

Regards Andy

[Edited on 19/9/09 by Andybarbet]

Me and my wife did this for for our wedding, as did my sister last year.

we are in exactly the same boat - we have everything we want / need in our house. we'd rather someone give us a £5er donation to the holiday than some £30 gift we are never going to need / use

have a look on here:

http://www.thefizz.co.uk/cash-instead-of-gifts.htm

we added one of these ryhmes in our wedding invites.

me and my wife did this. no problems worked out really well for us too

Mate of mine did this.

Had a load of "things" you could buy them while they were there.

Hire car, dinner for 2, cocktails on the beach etc etc.

I think it might have been this site http://www.buy-our-honeymoon.com/ but there are loads of similar sites, a quick google for Honeymoon Gift List or similar should sort you out.

Best of luck!


Mike


(P.S. I got a steering wheel, seatbelts, a petrol tank and some seats on my wedding list. The lads much prefered buying "boys stuff" than towels and mugs!)

Our niece had a sort of gift voucher scheme at a local travel agent where you just went in and told them whose holiday it was toward and they took a donation from you. They went to the Seychelles in the end with what they got.

We just asked people for money. As we already had everything we needed.

Everyone was happy with that. Money in a card is the easiest present to give and best to receive !

Yep - ^^^ That's what we did too