Honey Fund?

You'll get very mixed responses on here about Honey Funds or other cash funds.

As a guest, one of the other things I don't like is that I'm not actually buying you a honeymoon experience because they just cut you a check later. I'm paying cash and the honeyfund company is either charging me an extra few dollars to give my gift OR taking a cut of my $100 gift and only giving you like $95. I'd rather just write you a $100 check.

In my opinion, you don't need to tell people that cash is a good gift. Especially if you dont' have a lot of physical gifts you want/need or don't have a registry at all - people will give you cash/checks anyway. You'll get the full amount, and I won't get charged a fee to give you a present. Seems like a win-win to me!

From what I understand they are not going through a company. They are just going to add that in place of putting where they are registered at.

How did your guests take the requests and what was the average donation?

All of them are through a company (Zola, Honeyfund, etc ). Unless you are just giving your guests your bank account info, the company is going to take a cut.

Pretty much every single site like that takes a percentage of guest's money. In my opinion, it's so much better for guests to give you cash - that way they can give you the full amount they want to give instead of having a portion taken by a website!

Hahahah. "Money tree". Anyway, back to the original post. So in my culture, everyone expects money. However, I have a lot of guests that use the wedding registry. So to make it easier for everyone, I just put on my website as "if you wish to contribute to our honeymoon fund, please make all check payable to: my name". My FH and I personally prefer money so that we can put it back to our wedding.

I have heard of this and my FH and I considered but we decided to do a registry instead. I know for my brother's wedding they did it. They had a box (separate from their card box) at their wedding that they put "Honeymoon Fund" on. That way guests who wanted to donate could and it was in a protected box that on my brother had they key to. I have heard that some websites do it for you but some take a percentage of the money collected, which is why my brother did it the way he did for his wedding.

My FH and I have lived together for 3 years, so if we had wanted anything for our house, we have already taken care of it. We setup a HoneyFund, which we hope to be the main registry and have had the discussion of making sure we take pictures of us during the activities that people gifted to us and sending them pictures of us enjoying the activities.

We also understood that some people think its tacky so we made a registry of a few physical gifts as well.

I did a Honeymoon Fund, but also had physical gifts on the list so that people could choose what to get. Just so you know, when you buy "experiences" (i.e. wine tasting, massages) for the couple, there is no guarantee that the money will be used by the couple for that particular activity. As I am now finding, all the money from the honeyfund goes into a single fund, and the couple can use that as they please.