Eighteen

We can scarcely believe it, but Buy Our Honeymoon is now 18 years old. If it were a person, they’d be a fully-grown adult, able to vote and probably on their way to uni.

Of course, really it’s still our baby. We built a prototype of the site to use for our own wedding way back in 2005, and then developed it out properly into a business a couple of years later, launching in April 2007. And we’re still every bit as dedicated now as we were then to providing the best service we possibly can to all the couples who trust us to become part of their celebrations.

The landscape has changed a lot in that time. Back when we began, people made their plans largely with the help of printed wedding magazines – this shifted over time to wedding blogs, and then onto social media. And our competitors then are different from our competitors now.

But our values haven’t changed at all. We wanted to provide a way to bridge the gap between a traditional wedding registry and simply asking for cash. We wanted to make funding your honeymoon as fun and as satisfying for your guests as choosing a gift for your home.

We wanted to have fair pricing, where we don’t make any profit out of your actual gifts. In fact, we’ve never raised our prices – we’re better value now than we’ve ever been.

We wanted our identity as a service to be entirely secondary to your personalities as a couple. Your gift list is yours to shape and customise to best suit your plans, and our branding always stays well out of the way.

And we wanted to always be here to help. To offer prompt support, personally, to any couple that uses us. Without pressuring you to commit, or spamming your guests with emails asking them for a review.

We’ve kept it modern, of course. New designs, even better customisation options, a wider selection of ways to collect funds. And we have more changes and improvements coming soon.

But we like to think that our grown-up service is what’s made us the UK’s favourite dedicated honeymoon fund for eighteen years. And we’re enormously grateful to the tens of thousands of couples who’ve joined us so far, from all over the world.

We’re raising a glass, and we’re toasting all of you. And now that they can legally do so, we’ll get the website to join us!

– Shelley and Andrew