Honeyfund questions?

[misskelleen]

Hi all!

My wedding is on August 4th of this year!  :)
My fiancé and I have decided to ask those guests who wish to give us a gift to instead help out with our Honeymoon fund, and we are not doing the usual registry/gift tradition.  I looked through the tags and found several opinions about whether or not it's okay to ask for this, whether people

Comments

[greatmachinery]

mentioning gifts on the invitation is gauche as hell -- don't do it. give a url for your wedding website. otherwise, i plan to do a similar thing except to pay for our house.

[misskelleen]

Yes, I'm not planning to do it on the invitation, I know not to mention the gifts on there at all. I was thinking more of including a little card about registry/gifts. But perhaps the website would be a better place for this, and I won't include anything in the invite envelope after all...

I've heard of people doing this type of thing for their house! I hope it works out for you!

:)

[greatmachinery]

yeah, i think it's not kosher to mention gifts anywhere in the invitation "package." i do like your wording and think it would be perfect on a website. it's best to include a small traditional registry as well.

[misskelleen]

I wonder if that's kind of changing though? The last few weddings I attended or was invited to, they all included a small card in their envelope with registry info on it. But maybe I'll just avoid the whole thing and do website only...

[revedeshautbois]

I think this is somewhat regional, but it seems like the website is the easiest solution for everything. (One more for "How did we live before the internet?").