Smart Honeymoon

Instead of registering for pots, pans, dishes and towels at a department or specialty store, a Smart Honeymoon registry gives the couple the flexibility to create a wedding gift registry out of elements of the honeymoon they have planned. Register for items like romantic dinners, airline travel, accommodations and activities like horseback riding, scuba diving, and theater tickets. You make your plans and reservations -- your guests help pay for your honeymoon. So instead of giving you glasses that break, your guests can contribute towards helping you build memories that will last forever. A Smart Honeymoon registry makes a great companion registry to a traditional gift registry too. This gives your guests a choice. You'll find many of them will choose to use your Smart Honeymoon registry.

Smart Honeymoon is one of the least expensive honeymoon registry services available, and can be entirely free for the couple.

First, there are no up-front costs associated with creating and maintaining your Smart Honeymoon registry. The small 7.5% transaction fee on the gift total pays for credit card processing, website maintenance and hosting, unlimited phone and email, security, and other fees associated with keeping the registries online and available.

Additionally, the couple has two different options by which the fee can be assessed. Generally we've found that the guests want to pay the fee so they know their entire gift will go to the couple. Using this payment method, the charge is added to the guest's bill at checkout, much like tax and shipping & handling, but usually less. This method means that the registry service is entirely free for the couple. The second option is where no transaction fee is added to the guest's total. The transaction fee is subtracted from the couple's registry gift total when the couple receives their gifts. The couple chooses their preferred method during sign-up and can change methods until the first gift purchase.

We have noticed the practice of some of the larger honeymoon registry sites where BOTH the guest and the couple are charged a fee, perhaps 7% for the couple and 3% for the guest. We believe that this is intentionally deceptive and want you to make the decision that's best for you.

Please contact us with any questions.

You can add the Smart Honeymoon link to your personal websites or copy/paste it into an email and send it to your close friends and family. Be sure to inform your bridal party of your Smart Honeymoon Registry - they'll all help spread the word as well! Shortly after you register at Smart Honeymoon, we'll email you a link that points directly to your registry. We'll also include code to put in your website that creates a Smart Button that sends guests directly there as well. If you don't have a wedding website, you can gracefully let guests know where you're registered by mentioning it on Facebook or MySpace. Or you can create a page there just for your wedding!
Here is an HTML code snippit you can cut and paste to link to our homepage that has the catchy, rotating slides:

<a href="http://www.smarthoneymoon.com">

We're registered at SmartHoneymoon.com!</a>

The couple will receive their gift funds via check or they can choose to have their funds loaded on a SmartHoneyMoney Visa debit card, which can be used anywhere Visa is accepted. More SmartHoneyMoney Details

After the honeymoon, visit SmartHoneymoon.com again and click on the Thank-you postcard link. Here you will be able to upload photos of you on your honeymoon, and we'll create high-quality photo postcards out of them so that you can send your guests a truly personal thank-you card.

See some sample registries!.

The couple has designed a registry around their honeymoon itinerary. The gifts they receive will go towards paying for the honeymoon they've planned. The couple might be able to do a little something extra they wouldn't have been able to afford without their Smart Honeymoon gifts.

The couple will receive an email notification each time a purchase is made from their Smart Honeymoon Registry. The couple can also login to their registry and go to their main page at any time to view the contribution total and see which registry items have been purchased. The couple will not be able to tell who has made the purchases. This will be a secret for the guest to reveal when they choose. However, on the couple's wedding date (or other date of their choosing) Smart Honeymoon will email the couple a thank-you list of gifts purchased and by whom.

Smart Honeymoon will send the couple a Thank You list on their wedding day detailing who purchased which item. We'll leave the timing of the gift announcement to the guest prior to that. However, when checking out, the guest can choose to be mailed a premium customized Gift Card for an additional $2.00. See a sample of the gift card.

Your privacy is extremely important to us and we will never share any of your information. We need it only to manage your registry, mail you your SmartHoneyMoney Visa Cards, and email you gift notifications. For more details, see our privacy policy.

If you have any other questions, please don't hesitate to send us an email, or call us.