Any tips on honeymoon fund?

Zola has a honeymoon fund along with other case funds.

I sort of thought to have a registry with expensive investment wines and possibly other high priced items but it is not a good idea to scheme like that.

Depending on who you ask, some (likely some of your guests unfortunately) believe that honeymoon funds are a major faux pass. However, we felt the same as you and your spouse, and I had no idea that it was regarded poorly until I was (nicely) confronted by quite a few wedding guests! Everyone I've ever known did a honeymoon fund, so I was shocked lol.

My moms advice: make a registry. If you only do a honeymoon fund, there will be people who do not feel comfortable donating to it and will likely get you a gift that you didn't want to begin with and cannot return. At least with a registry, you can upgrade some household items and also avoid looking money grabby to your guests. We did it on TheKnot, and put the honeymoon fund as our top choice on invitations will say "registry at ____".

Edit: we initially were going to ask guests not to get us gifts at all, but if so inclined here is honeymoon fund. But got a lot of kickback about coming off tacky by our families, and from other brides/bridal communities.

I had a honeymoon fund where it had general cash fund for it and then we broke it down to people could pay for individual activities and they much much preferred that lol. everyone bought up the activities because they preferred seeing what exactly we were using the funds for.

Definitely agree with Bailey to have both the fund and physical gifts registry. I have many friends that did both and it allowed those not comfortable with giving straight money to contribute in a way they felt was controversial. If there’s any items in your home you want to upgrade, I’d recommend putting those as the physical items (we had fun receiving some nice Le Creuset pieces 🤩)

Make sure to read the fine print some of those honeymoon funds charge a fee. We are having a small registry (mainly for the shower), in our families and social circles gifts are given for the shower/engagment and then wedding gifts are usually cash/check in a card. Its definitely a know your crowd thing, some people do get insulted by them but it has become much more common in recent years to have a honeymoon fund. Good luck!

We're using Honeyfund - which lets you set up a honeymoon (or new house etc) fund and you can break it down for them to contribute towards certain things (airfare, hotels, dinners, excursions etc) or to just contribute any amount in general that they want. My MOH used it for hers over a decade ago and it worked fantastically. Tons of people contributed and they were able to have a really nice trip.

One thing I have noticed is that when Honeymoon Funds are advertised for specific activities. People get really angry if you don't actually do that activity. Friends of ours put $250 for Scuba lessons and mentioned it was their lifelong dream. A family member stretched her budget to go for it, because she always wanted to SCUBA and never did. When she asked how it went and she was told that they used the money to pay a bill instead.....it wasn't good.

In my circles (in Australia) it is commonplace to both disclose to guests what type of gifts would be preferred (i.e. in the invitation suite there would be information, sometimes even a separate card for it, noting that the couple are having a wishing well or otherwise providing registry or honeyfund details) and to have monetary gifts.

We disclosed to our guests that our preferred choice of gift was a wishing well (money) and did not have a registry and every single guest of ours gave a monterary gift. This is the norm for us notwithstanding that we understand in certain places this would be considered 'tacky' or 'rude'.

If it were me, I would just have a honeyfund but this will depend largely on your crowd as to what to set up and how to disclose it (if at all unless asked).

The knot has registry for Honeymoon, new house and lots of other things in addition to regular registry items.

You'll find only older people will have an issue with a honeymoon fund -- it's very typical nowadays.

We got married in our 30s -- we'd lived alone and then together for years before finally tying the knot. As I said to my parents: You don't think I have a dish rack? My advice is to have a registry of a couple upgrade items you actually need (example: a new standing mixer, upgraded pillows) and include a honeymoon fund on the page. People will get it.

We are registered through Traveler's Joy, which let us create a honeymoon registry with itemized experiences - like "tickets to ___ museum" and "dinner at ___ rooftop bar"! It's more personal than a honeymoon/cash fund and guests are loving picking stuff out for us so far. It was also really fun creating it with my fiancé too! They do take a small percentage off the top but we thought it was worth it, and have just priced things a little higher than the actual cost to adjust for that.

I recommend using a honeymoon REGISTRY like https://www.travelersjoy.com/ to help guests purchase an experience for you and your future spouse. This way your guests aren’t just sending you a blank check. Instead, they can be funding an excursion, a hotel night, fancy dinners, etc.


This site allows you to break down items so one person isn’t paying for something like 5 nights at a luxury resort. Instead, the guest can fund one or multiple nights depending on their budget.
The best part about this registry, in my opinion, is that the couple gets the gift as cash, but the guest can see what the couple intends to spend that cash on.
Hope this helps!

I don't recommend travlersjoy because they take away a percentage of your money. which i believe is bogus haha.. and something i did not know when i made one... i agree with everyone else make a registry still because most people just don't like giving money.