Happy Birthday to us!
What a difference a day year makes! On April 2nd 2007, Buy Our Honeymoon was launched to the world. At first, we barely existed: we had no presence on the search engines and even our Google ads were buried pages deep.
But after a few weeks people started to find us. Month on month our numbers grew — and then, at new year, interest in Buy Our Honeymoon blew through the roof!
On this, our first anniversary, we’re extremely proud of the site we have created. We top the main web search results and are often recommended on the wedding planning forums – people seem to know who we are. As well as all our couples from the UK, we’ve had customers from Canada, the US, mainland Europe and Asia too!
We love how adventurous and creative our clients are, with amazing honeymoons to Zanzibar, Bora Bora, Easter Island, and even Antarctica. We’re constantly impressed by people’s humour and imagination in putting together their lists.
And it seems we were right about many people’s preference for paying a one-off fee instead of having commission taken from their gifts. In the vast majority of cases we are cheaper (sometimes a lot cheaper) than registries based on a service charge. Indeed, many lists have been wildly popular — one of our couples in the US were given almost $18,000! The typical 9% service charge on this would have been $1,620!
The site has changed and developed hugely over the year: we’ve listened to our customers and responded to your wishes. Themed registry cards, alternative domain names, uploadable photos, availability countdowns, sortable lists — we’ve averaged two new features a month since our launch.
As so to the future! We will continue to listen and improve the site. We have lots of plans and lots of ideas. But as we crack open the champagne, we mainly wanted to say this: thank you all for being part of a great year!