Describing what monetary gifts would go toward on website

Neither. I wouldn’t read either option and think “oh, well it’s going toward their house so I’m definitely going to give them money now!” Those who want to gift cash will without being prompted or convinced.

Don't do this. If people want to give you cash they will. There is no need to tell them what your spending it on. If you want when you send thank you cards you can say something like "Thank you so much for the generous gift, we are putting it towards our upcoming honeymoon in Hawaii!" or something of the sort.

I'd lean towards creating an actual honeymoon fund (ideally one where you let guests contribute to specific items like your excursions, flights, accommodation, etc.) or otherwise just not mentioning the option of giving cash on your website at all.

Everyone is going to tell you not to put it on you website. IF you are super set on doing it anyways, I would just put both things exactly like you said in this post. " it would go toward the honeymoon or the payment of our future home". I don't think guests would be more/less likely to gift money based on which thing you write on your website.

Side note, your guests should know you well enough to know that you are saving for certain things so putting what you're putting monetary gifts for isn't really necessary.

We didn’t put anything and we got a ton of cash/checks when all of our registry stuff was purchased. I think most people know that newlyweds appreciate money and don’t really care what it goes towards.

Thank you for sharing your thoughts. For those who are already married and would have preferred monetary gifts but didn’t specifically state this anywhere, did you feel like you received many boxed gifts that you couldn’t return (e.g. no gift receipt)?

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Nope, not a single one.

I wouldn’t do this in advance. If you want to include a note about what the money is going towards in a THANK YOU card , that’s a fine& better approach (and then you can cater it toward the individual based on which you’d think they might appreciate the most)

View Quoted Comment No. In our case , the only off-registry things we got were gift cards , or improvements on registry items (ex we had a nice wooden salad bowl on there, and the person who gifted us that also found coordinating wooden tongs they included as a bonus-gift), or small sentiment keepsake items as a wrapped something or other to accompany a gift card or some money). In only one instance did someone go *completely* rogue, but she would’ve no matter what — that's just who she is (and there was a gift receipt). You may come across a couple of these types, but largely, people get it. (We has a small registry [considering a shower and knowing a few people prefer to give physical items] and received mostly monetary gifts)

View Quoted Comment I got entirely cash/checks for my wedding. The only gift I got for my shower that was not on my registry and unwanted, was a firepit. I found out where it was from and returned it for store credit. There were a few other items bought for the shower that weren't on my registry. Things like candles and frames, which I'll use.

I did not tell anyone I wanted cash. I did not leave a place for gifts at the wedding. I only had a card box.

Thank you all for sharing your thoughts. We’ve decided to leave this note off our website entirely after thinking long and hard about it.

If I saw the registry was smaller like yours is or had gifts out of my price range, I would just give cash anyway. I don't think you need to let people know that

View Quoted Comment We made a "Honeymoon Fund" for our registry, but we also personalized it. Were already going on a honeymoon no matter what, its booked and paid for. But this gives guests the option to give us "upgrades" or "extras".
For instance, were going on a cruise, and someone can pay $40 and we will get champagne and chocolate covered strawberries in our room when we arrive. We also have excursions like snorkeling and deep sea fishing, etc. My bridesmaids loved this idea and thought it was alot of fun.
Were going to take an instax camera as well and make sure we send a pic of the activity/upgrade to include in our thank you cards.

We used Zola to put a few home items for our registry-- sheets, plates. We had two funds, honeymoon and future milestones. We live in Brooklyn and have limited space and live a minimal lifestyle. We got lots of checks, other wise people added to our honeymoon fund. Nobody added to our future milestones fund. Ha!

We simply had a website thank linked to our registry page. We wrote the below and didn't explicitly say give us money 🙃 but they did anyway "We are so excited to celebrate with each and everyone of you who have been such a big part of our lives. We don’t need a lot as reflected below and truly appreciate gifts big and small! 😘 Endless love and thanks!"