Honeyfund

Personally, I don’t see the point of sites like that. You aren’t actually registering for experiences, and your guests have to pay a fee to gift you. People know couples need money because everyone needs money. Cut out the middle man.

We decided against honeyfund because of the fees and it seems like they keep a portion of what is given to you (May be very wrong on that,I did research a long time ago). We ended up putting it as a section on our registry but through a different site.

Why pay a percentage to someone to do this for you. If people give you $400, $32 goes to them, $368 to you. If people give you $1500, they keep $120, for processing 8-10 checks, while you get to keep 1380. Why lose that much? If people just stick checks in envelopes and give them directly, if 8-10 people give you $1500, you keep it all. Why not just figure that people who want to give you money will do it directly? They often figure people checked out Honeyfund. They have no idea you are not getting all the money. They have no idea you do not get a single one of the experiences they paid for you to get. It is like a real estate scam where you are shown a beautiful beachfront of sandy shores , and get swampland 5 miles upriver. They sell your guests an illusion. Also be aware, if you are counting on it for a honeymoon, you may not see any money for weeks. The first time I saw this on a website, I almost kicked in $300 for a riverboat cruise. Check all made out, and a friend's parents filled me in. Their family all did it. Their son and new DIL were all unhappy the family was all angry they did not one thing people thought they paid for, plus took hundreds in fees. Why do this? Why deceive people into thinking they are buying something that they are not? Just let them give you money directly, and you get it all. No angry people questioning you about things they paid for that you never did, when you return from your honeymoon.

We used it and it was fine! Fees are tiny. (We also did a traditional registry for a few gifts.) Just don’t GIVE people registry info—not on invite, website, nowhere. Wait for guests to ask if you’re registered. Then you can tell ‘em.

Just as reference, for guests who have did give gifts about 1/2 gave us items & 1/2 did cash via cards or Honeyfund. Glad we had both options.

We have a Honeyfund. The fee is only a credit card processing fee of 2.8%, you can opt to pay it or have guests pay it. We opted to pay it so of $1500 in gifts $42 goes to pay the credit card processing, not hundreds as stated above.

We’re in our upper 20’s most of our guests are in their 20s and 30s and we’ve received great feed back. Some guests have called and asked about fees and opted to send a check instead. We only included things we plan to do no matter if funded as gifts or by us. Most of our friends no about our unique housing situation and why we did a Honeyfund and not a traditional registry. So far, we love it and our guests love it!

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I'm definitely not putting the registry information on our invites. A few people have asked, and I've told, but I'm not putting it in people's faces lol. I have it on our website, but I have it worded as, "Your presence at our wedding is gift enough." That way, it's not like we are asking for money.

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I tried telling her that, but it was kind of a waste of my breath LOL. She and her FH want to go to Iceland for their honeymoon, but they can't afford it on their own. Her wedding is in December, and she assumes people are going to fork up money for it on there. I checked it out a few days ago, and no one has donated anything towards it. Like you said, just wait for people to give you money if they want and go from there. I hate asking people for money. That's why I'm just putting the registry on our website and if people are interested, they can check it out on their own.

I just wouldn't register, then people usually give cash or check.