Wedding Gift website goes live...

So the "gift us our honeymoon" website has gone live.. ..

We've been together just over eleven years and we have most of the stuff we need ....although if anyone wanted to give us a big flat screen TV then we wouldn't complain!....but to be honest as far as traditional setting up home stuff we've got almost everything we need or want.

The one thing we love to do together more than anything in the world, is travelling with our cameras in our beautiful Smart car "Blob". We've always dreamed of travelling across the USA in a car/motorhome and when we got Blob 3 years ago doing it in him became an even bigger dream. Unfortunately the reality and logistics of trying to get him over there and and the support we would need make it vitually impossible.

Then when Darren proposed last year and we started thinking of what to do for a honeymoon, we realised that we could ask people to help us achieve our original dream. From New York to San Francisco in a motorhome, visiting some of the places we've always wanted to see....
So we tried to work out the best way to allow people to help us do this, we realised that as quite a few of our friends live outside the UK that a website might be the way to go...

So the idea of www.ouramericanhoneymoon.com was born. And after lots of time grappling with Dreamweaver (we have 3 other websites but still haven't mastered it!!!) it's gone live..So here's hoping that those that want to buy us a wedding gift find it easy to use, that was our main goal, to make it easy for people to understand why we want to do it, how we plan to do it and how their gift will help.

We are worried that people will think we're being cheeky, but we hope that our friends, family and others will understand why we're doing it this way. It just seems that it's no more cheeky than having a gift list at some expensive store. We've also given the option for someone to give as little or as much as they want or can afford! (we've worked it out to approx £1 a mile, and every mile counts!!!)

This week the big wedding thing that has to be sorted is the catering... we're torn between a tapas style table buffet and a straight "help yourself" buffet. So we need to pin down the 2 caterers we're considering to a menu and a quote this week and I'm working a 48.5 hour week, so expect some very short and possibly bad-tempered posts this week!!

Jane xx