Ireland's 1st Honeymoon Registry
August 25, 2003
The start of a promising week. I have a client site going live later in the week. But it’s not just any old site – well none of my client’s sites are, check them out in the clients section above for yourself. This site, however, is the first of its kind in Ireland.
It’s an online honeymoon registry.
Because nowadays many Irish couples live together before getting married, they tend to have all the essentials for their home by the time they get married. So what to put on the wedding list? There are only so many glasses pillowcases a couple can use. It’s a bit crass to ask friends for money. And returning unwanted gifts can take up time and cause embarrassment when they’re not on display when the donor is around!
Ireland’s first online honeymoon registry works just like a traditional wedding registry, except instead of glassware, china and linen, guests can contribute towards the cost of the couple’s honeymoon. All elements of the honeymoon may be purchased in units of €25, so a guest wishing to spend €100 for example can contribute €25 towards the flight, €25 towards the hotel, and even extras such as champagne, massage and excursions.
There are additional features on the site to make things even easier for couples. Once the honeymoon has been booked, the couple is given a space on the site for their own wedding web page. Couples can use the wedding web page to publish a photo of themselves and information that will assist their guests (details and directions to the ceremony and reception, etc). The wedding web page can also be used to manage RSVP’s, making it convenient for guests to confirm their attendance by email. Of course, the wedding web page has a link to the couple’s honeymoon registry so that guests will be aware of it.
Finally, when the couple return from their honeymoon refreshed and relaxed, they can publish photos from their trip onto the site and all guests who have contributed towards the honeymoon will receive an email and a link to the site.
Nice idea eh?
The site is a database-driven site and will be ready for testing on Wednesday. Go2Web is the company that is developing the site, e-commerce sites with shopping cart functionality is a forte of theirs, and I must say, they’re very pleasant to work with. Go2web designed the original site for the client, The Travel Broker.
Once the testing is complete, it’s a case of getting it out there to as many wedding related websites and magazines as possible. If you’re reading this and you’re thinking to yourself – “what a brightspark kind of idea” – contact us and let us know of any wedding industry contacts you have. For wedding planners and others who work in this (multi million euro) industry, it’s definitely something that will make them look good to be able to refer their clients to.
More on this later when there are some results to brag about…