Want to forego the embarrassment of asking for money for your honeymoon fund? Save your guests the awkwardness of making a bank transfer/writing a cheque or bringing cash to the wedding by making a stylish honeymoon patchwork. You get to show everyone all the personal experiences that will make your honeymoon perfect. And guests get to choose what they would like to make a contribution towards. You can go all out for the wealthier family members who may like to chip in for your flights or pay for hotel stays, but you can add some more affordable little treasures in too such as two glasses of ice cold rosé on the Cote d’Azur, a cheeseboard in a Pyrenean mountain restaurant or a camel ride through the Abu Dhabi desert.
Couples using Patchwork not only get to fund the honeymoon of their dreams, enjoying all the trips and experiences that their friends and family have funded, they also get to read personal messages that their guests are able to leave alongside their contributions, feel the love that everyone has for them as a couple and enjoy their best wishes for the future together. Setting up a Patchwork is probably the most fun part of planning your wedding too. So much more fun than dragging your other half around John Lewis picking out your wedding gift list. Browsing readymade honeymoon templates is super fun and also helpful for planning your honeymoon – giving you ideas of destinations as well as activities you can do and things to see.
And contributing to a patchwork is not just easy and fun for guests but allows them to feel part of your union, understand your future plans and help make your dreams a reality.
“We funded a whole list of lovely things we wanted to do on our honeymoon – we thought it would be nicer for someone to know they bought us a boat trip, or dinner at the top of a mountain, rather than a gravy boat or a hand towel. Setting off on our trip knowing everyone had chipped in felt like a big extension of our amazing day. We were thoroughly overwhelmed by the love and generosity of our family and friends and being able to think of them as we went on our adventure was such a nice feeling. Our friends loved how original the idea was.”
– Patchwork Couple Bea & Robbie
A Patchwork is a super stylish way to set up your online honeymoon registry. We have some readymade patchworks with honeymoon ideas that you may never have even dreamed of. Whether you’d like to soak up the Santorini Sunshine, enjoy a Marrakesh Mini-Moon or cosy up in Cornwall, we have enjoyed putting together lots of dream honeymoons here at Patchwork HQ.
Or perhaps you’d like to make a completely fresh Patchwork and add in your own personal ideas for gifts or experienced you’d like guests to help fund. Create a Pinterest-style board for all the things you need for a new kitchen, upload a photo of a work of art you love or choose images to show how you’d like to landscape the garden! Patchwork is designed to be totally flexible so you can make your gift list or honeymoon fund entirely unique to you.
And the wonderful thing about our honeymoon and wedding registry is that you needn’t pay anything until a guest makes a contribution towards something on your patchwork. There’s no upfront fee to pay with Patchwork. We make our money with a 3% commission on all contributions you receive through the site. Quite simply, if a friend were to give you a £100 contribution, you would receive the full amount directly into your PayPal account, at which point Patchwork and PayPal deduct transfer fees.
