Make the most of your Honeymoon Registry

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Make the most of yourHoneymoon Registry
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The Wedding Industry

• The Wedding industry is a 50 Billion Dollar a
  year industry.
• Every year an average of 2,400,000 weddings are
  performed in the United States alone.
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• 20,000 is the average amount spent on a wedding.
  
• Half a million couples will celebrate a
  destination wedding this year with an average of
  46 guests flying with the bride and groom to the
  wedding.
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• During the past two years, unlike other
  industries, the Wedding Industry has shown no
  decline in numbers in other words, the wedding
  industry has proven to be robust, and
  recession-proof.

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Honeymoon Industry

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• Among couples that have a wedding, 99 take
  honeymoons.
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• Honeymoons comprise a 12 Billion a year industry
  with couples spending an average of 5,000 on
  their honeymoons. The average length of a
  honeymoon is 11 days.
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• 45 of honeymoon destinations are domestic and
  55 are international.
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• 86 plan to travel more than their parents did
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• 79 plan to travel after they have kids
• Average Age of honeymooners is 26 for Brides and
  29 for Grooms

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What is a Honeymoon Bridal Registry?

• On our free online honeymoon registry, Brides
  Grooms list anything they want to do on their
  honeymoon even portions of their trip. First
  they book their travel as normal, then they go
  online and create their own bridal registry list.
• It works just like a wedding gift registry. 
  Instead of buying pots or pans, toasters or
  towels, guests purchase portions of their dream
  honeymoon as a wedding gift. We do not book
  travel or make reservations. We provide Brides
  Grooms a way to get more money to spend on their
  trip or to get reimbursed for monies already
  spent.
• Its free to the agents, brides and grooms, there
  is a 7 processing fee to cover management of the
  account, gift cards, wedding web page etc.

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For example, instead of a crock pot guests can
buy the couple A Picnic on the Beach or a
Couples Massage. Using and promoting the
honeymoon registry, the couple receives an
average of 2000.00 in gift money to spend on
their honeymoon.
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The changing needs of honeymooners

• With the younger generation not to concerned
  about receiving traditional China and Silver, and
  with the rising cost of the ceremonies going up
  towards 20,000, younger couples still want to
  take a honeymoon but need financial help.
• As more couples live together prior to marriage,
  are older when they marry or are on consecutive
  marriages, the need for more things is not as
  great as the need for a vacation experience.
• Second marriages comprise 37 of all
  weddings performed equaling 888,000-second
  marriages per year in the United States alone.
• The average wedding is extremely costly
  averaging 20,000.00 and honeymoons averaging
  5,000.00.
• Couples dont want to send out
  announcement cards asking to Please send a check
  to my travel agent at or No gifts please just
  cash.

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How does the Honeymoon Registry Benefit Travel
Agents?

• Give your clients a way to have extra money to
  spend on
• their booking.
• Last month Jose and Claudia Martinez received
  5,520.00 to spend on their perfect honeymoon.
• Do you have clients that want a longer or more
  luxurious honeymoon, or would rather have monies
  towards their honeymoon instead of more pots and
  pans? Now you can offer a way to increase the
  amount of money Brides and Grooms have to spend
  on their trip by using the honeymoon registry.

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How are service fees paid

• Its a free service to you and your clients.
  There is a 7 processing fee on the transaction
  this covers all account management,order
  processing, the wedding web page, and gift cards.
• We are the only site where the couple can choose
  to take the service charge out of the gift amount
  they receive or add it to the gift amount at the
  time of purchase.
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Make 20 commission on registry item service
charges

• You can make commissions on more than their
  travel booking. You will receive commissions on
  service fees from items that are purchased on the
  registry , spa treatments, extra activities ,
  even shopping !
• You receive 20 of all service fees collected,
  the average you receive is 40.00.
• Last month our highest commissions were paid to
  Travel Agent, Joan Venazial. She helped promote
  her clients registry and received 104.00
  commission from us.

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Take the Hassle out of In House Registries

• Why print cards and account for checks in the
  mail from the couples weddings guests? We do all
  the accounting for you! Its simple, free,
  automated and gives your clients beautiful,
  classy, state of the art technology to use as
  their registry and is proven they will receive
  more gifts.

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Its free we dont book travel!

• This is a completely free program no cost to
  join, operate or to use our materials.
• Its already on your website, you just have to let
  your clients know about it.
• We are not travel sellers and are never in
  competition with you. We want to help you book
  more travel!
• We are registry experts that is all we do.
• More bookings for you more registries for us.

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Increase Honeymoon Leads

• We provide ways to help generate more leads,
  through marketing materials, email templates,
  letter templates and bridal show training.
  Agents that have used our techniques at shows
  have increased their leads to an average of 156
  per show!

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How can you market to honeymooners?

• Make sure your registry is easy to find on your
  website. Use a button or text link that is not
  only easy for Bride Groom to find but easy
  for the guests that are buying gifts to find, you
  dont want frustrated guests signing off your
  website.
•  Tag all email correspondence with Find out
  about our Honeymoon Registry or Find out about
  our Wedding Websites have that link go to your
  site.
•  If you have an automatic email system respond to
  any honeymoon inquiries with and email about your
  honeymoon registry and wedding website.
•  Each time you send out a package in the mail,
  include your one page flier about your honeymoon
  registry.

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• If you have an office or storefront, print
  out the poster about your honeymoon registry and
  post for your clients to see.
• Once your clients have done their registry, take
  a moment to see what they have signed up for.
  Take that opportunity to book upgrades or
  commissionable items that they want.
• Print out announcement cards for your clients as
  a gift for booking with you once they have
  registered.

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• Enhance your website with items that you can earn
  commissions from by posting links by other
  vendors in the honeymoon industry. Offer
  bridal/honeymoon clothing, magazines,
  personalized romance books, global phones, etc.
  All set up through credible middleman sites that
  ship direct to couple.
• Cultivate working relationships with businesses
  in your area that you know bridal shops,
  florists, ladies gyms, bakeries, and hair salons.
  Trade referrals with them either by a referral
  sheet or web space.
• Add to any advertising that you currently have in
  Yellow Pages, newspapers, etc. that you have a
  honeymoon registry or free wedding websites.
•  Send out a press release or be a contributing
  writer to local newspapers. Become an expert on
  Honeymoon Destinations or Travel Tips, even a
  what not to do article.
• Host a Honeymoon Night in your area with a
  local supplier, get couples to book on the spot
  with special offers

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How do you sign your clients up?

• You book the travel and refer the couple to the
  registry to sign up. You do not have to sign them
  up yourself, but taking a moment to show your
  clients where to sign up is recommended. Its
• Its already on your YTB site under Extras

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How do Brides and Grooms register for what
they want they want to do?

• The couples go online and register for anything
  they would like to do on their honeymoon, even
  portions of their trip.
• We walk them through every simple step.
• We give ideas of what to ask for, or they can
  create their own. They just click on what they
  want.

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Your clients have their own Wedding Website
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How are gifts purchased?

• Guests go online, view all the gifts the couples
  wished for and then purchase a gift for the
  couple. Its safe and secure we never store or
  reuse their information.
• Remember most gifts are not purchased until 5
  days prior to the wedding the couple has all
  ready paid for the trip so they are essentially
  getting reimbursed for their expenses they
  also have more spending money for their trip!

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What happens after a gift is purchased?

• The guest sends a gift card via email
• The gift money goes into our Merrill Lynch
  account
• We pay the Couple
• The couple can view all their cards at anytime
  through their account login

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When does everyone get paid?

• The Couple can collect their gifts at anytime
  through pay pal or check via email request.
• Travel Agents are paid within 14 days after the
  wedding date.
• There is no minimum and everyone can be paid by
  check or pay pal.

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What our Couples say about using the registry.

• We were so happy with the results we had
  from our registry. The staff at
  HoneymoonWishes.com was always so professional
  and the ideas they had for our registry were
  great! We had lived together before our Wedding
  and so we had everything for our home that we
  needed. This was a great way for our guests to
  give us something we really wanted."
  --- Andy and Kim Wilhelm
• "My best friend recommended that we register our
  honeymoon because we were combining two
  households into one and already had two of
  everything the last thing we needed was more
  housewares! Our cruise was truly a dream come
  true.I could have never asked for a better gift
  from my friends and family. I had no idea there
  would be so many extra things to do and buy on a
  cruise until found the information on your site,
  using the registry let me do it all!" ---
  Anthony and Susan Martinez
• "You guys are so great. I am excited about the
  success of this website! Everyone complimented on
  how wonderful this website is. Thank you for
  making our wedding so enjoyable with this very
  unique gift. ) Thanks a million" ---
  Bridgette Picardo
• "Again thank you so much for all of your extra
  effort with this. Our family sincerely
  appreciates it. You're the best! I appreciate all
  of your help." Sincerely, Amanda Stephens PS.
  Thank you Kristin for helping to make my parents
  dream vacation come true !!! --- Jason
  Amanda Stephens