No matter what the people in the know say, putting together the
Honeymoon Registry is nowhere near as simply as compiling the
Bridal Registry.
After all, how do you decide your Bridal Registry? Easy. You
walk around the house and look at what you have, what needs
replacing, what you’d really love someone to give you, and
there’s your Bridal Registry.
However, you can hardly walk through your Honeymoon needs,
until you actually decide on your Honeymoon. Then, and only then,
can you get into the nitty gritty of your Honeymoon Registry.
There’s your cost of flight tickets, if you’re flying.
There’s your patrol, if you’re driving. There’s your
accommodation wherever you’re staying. There’s the admission
for this, that, or the other event. There’s the cost of your
clothing if you’re going to somewhere special like Alaska and
need something to cover you from head to toe.
Then you need to really search your soul as to just how
generous your guests are. If you have some extremely rich and
generous uncles, you might decide that between them they might
cover your plane tickets. More likely, you will need to divide
that amount by ten or more guests so that instead two uncles
purchasing a ticket each with $1,000 gift, it’s more likely to
be 10 guests giving you a gift of $200 each.
Oh, and there’s one more quandary you need to consider. When
you put together your Bridal Registry it’s no big deal if the
guests go their merry way and give you something else, or nothing
at all. However, in the case of your Honeymoon Registry, you
can’t wait to make your arrangements after the money comes in.
You have to do it when you have to do it, and then keep your
fingers crossed when the Honeymoon Registry start bringing in the
dollars.