Honeymoon Crowdfunding/Registry

lb5
Sun, 16 Jul 2017 20:05:21 +0000

I appreciate everyone’s thoughts on this. One of my favorites is “Shifting social norms abound with weddings. I am trying to keep an open mind.” by travelnut I think. So true. I am really working on this.

For me a honeymoon registry by one of my kids doesn’t feel right to me (but I do not mind if someone else chooses to do that). I approached it with my S with “how about if you register for that as part of a registry, you just list 3 or 4 travel activities/excursions and not hundreds or thousands of dollars of hotels, meals, activities, and shopping trips while there” He actually was already leaning towards not doing this type of registry as he had just given a gift of a requested honeymoon event and said he wished he had just given cash (there were no traditional registries for this couple), because he didn’t like “losing” money to a fund company between them and their friends, and the thank you was just a generic thank you for helping fund our honeymoon. He said if they were to do it they would want to text or email a pic of them doing the activity to the gift giver, but probably will not do a travel registry at all. Also I suspect we are a bit more open to some shifting social norms than some and they were trying this idea out on us before the other set of parents.