The Inevitable Question

Are we registered anywhere?

Here's the short answer. Yes. We are registered at:

http://www.honeyfund.com/wedding/rebeccaandben07222007


For those of you who are interested, here's the much longer answer.


We don't really need anything. After we consolidated our households in Rebecca's home, we had to get rid of lots of things and we still have too much.

Our big dream is to take a honeymoon (with Rami) in June of 2008 in Israel. That's going to be expensive. In an ideal world, we'd be able to register with a leading on-line travel agency and use any gifts to offset the cost of the trip. Unfortunately, none of the well known travel web sites offer wedding gift registries.

We did find a number of web sites that offer honeymoon gift registries. They way they work is we list all kinds of honeymoon activities like a spa session, dinner out or night at a hotel that we'd like to receive as a gift. People send money to the web site via credit card supposedly gifting that specific honeymoon activity. In fact, the web sites don't actually book any of those activities. They simply send the happy couple a check (after taking a hefty service fee) and what the couple does with that check is up to them and their conscience. We find it tacky and dishonest.

So instead we registered at honeyfund.com. If you choose to go there and take a look at our registry, you'll discover that it's really a glorified way for people to send us checks. We find it tacky but at least it's honest. Also, they don't take a cut of any money gifted. We're very frustrated that we couldn't find a less obnoxious way for people to help us take our honeymoon, but we really tried.

So if you're interested in helping us out, we give our word that we really will use any money donated to get us to Israel and we'll post the pictures on this very blog.

If all that seems too much,we more than understand.

We'd like to offer an alternative to sending us a gift. Please consider making a charitable donation to Plan International at:

http://www.planusa.org/give/donation.php

Between the three of us, we've been sponsoring foster children for almost 20 years and are proud supporters of that organization.