Registry
Hello, loved one! Your presence at our wedding is gift enough. Truly.
If you do wish to honor our marriage with a gift, here are a few things that would help make our home and honeymoon magical ❤️
- Zola
- Gifts for the home (Amazon registry)
Our featured fund
We debated calling this gift "Honeymoon Wild Card" because it's exactly that: an open-ended contribution to our honeymoon fund. With this gift, you’re basically saying, “Spend this however you want, just have a great time, y’all!” We will-with care and appreciation-put your gift toward an expense that will help our honeymoon amazing. (Photo: exploring an illuminated-art installation in San Antonio)
Cash fund
Make It a Trip to Remember
Our featured fund
With this gift, you whisk us away on our honeymoon by helping to cover transportation. Mainly we expect to put these funds towards flights, but we might take other forms of transit too, such as train, trolley, funicular, motorcoach, kayak, or horse. (Pictured: the volcanoes and gorgeously desolate expanses of Chile's Atacama Desert, viewed from the road we took to get there)
Cash fund
Fly Us to the 'Moon
Our featured fund
With this gift, you celebrate the first year of our marriage by helping us go on a romantic anniversary getaway to New Orleans, where we first met and where we got engaged. (Pictured: Shel goofing around at the Mardi Gras World museum/ studio, unaware that Adam is planning to propose an hour or so later.)
Cash fund
Anniversary Weekend
With this gift, you nudge us to indulge. Specifically, we’ll use your gift for a sweet treat of some sort, be it an interesting local candy or giant cinnamon rolls at a cute cafe. (Pictured: elaborate brownie shake at an Alice-in-Wonderland-themed cafe in Santiago, Chile.)
Cash fund
Sweet Treat
$12
With this convivial gift, you treat us to a round of drinks. We might sip beach margaritas, cocktails that use a local ingredient, or a flaming concoction from a kitschy bar. We’ll raise a glass to you. (Pictured: a flaming concoction from a tiki bar in Denver. We visited a tiki bar on our first trip together so it's become a tradition of ours to seek them out.)
Cash fund
Round of Drinks
$30
So many nonprofits around the world do important work. With this gift, you honor our love of the natural world and the time we spend together exploring it.
GlobalGiving
Donation to an Environmental Charity
$50
With this gift, you give us an outing to a classic museum or other cultural institution… or perhaps to someplace less ordinary. (The photo shows Shelby at Monster World, a now-defunct experiential museum in Denver.) While our destination probably doesn’t have a giant T-rex head (alas), it’s bound to have a killer museum or quirky local attraction for us to venture to. Thanks to you, we’ll get to wander through it hand in hand, nerding out on some fascinating topic together.
Cash fund
Museum / Offbeat Attraction
$100
This is the gift of restful travel. And ahh, what a gift. By letting us relax in quiet lounges as we journey to and from our destination, you’ll make sure that our honeymoon travel is as unstressful as possible. (Photo: Not a stock photo!! We once arrived in Mexico City to be greeted with this delightfully labyrinthine line because the airport's automated passport scanners weren't working.)
Cash fund
Airport Lounge Passes
$100
Many health nonprofits around the world do lifesaving work and we both have family members who work in healthcare in various ways. We'd be honored by a donation to a health charity in honor of our marriage.
GlobalGiving
Donation to a Health Charity
$100
With this gift, you treat us to a leisurely brunch. In other words, you challenge us to relax SO HARD that we stretch breakfast out for, like, two or three hours. As a newlywed couple we'll rise to the challenge together (and probably nap afterward, especially if we order pancakes, because pancakes are the Sleepytime Tea of food). (Pictured: breakfast at Victor's 1959 Cafe in Minneapolis.)
Cash fund
Relaxing Brunch
$120
Fun fact: Adam’s first time riding a horse as an adult was during this visit to Dinosaur Valley State Park. With this gift, you’ll dispatch us on another horseback experience. Maybe we’ll canter along a beach like a romance-novel cover come to life, maybe we’ll venture out on a sunset ride and picnic. In any case, you’re giving us an unforgettable honeymoon memory.
Cash fund
Horseback Riding
$240
One of our early experiences as a couple was an overnight canoe trip on the Black Canyon Water Trail near Las Vegas. (The water was a striking green color-see photo.) Ever since, we’ve made water recreation a recurring feature of our travels. With this gift, you thoughtfully send us on a guided kayaking or canoeing excursion to explore a breathtaking natural place.
Cash fund
Guided Kayaking
$240
With this gift, you add a whole new dimension to our honeymoon by making our lodging part of the travel experience. We’ll stay in a place with unique features or distinctive character, like a treehouse-style eco-lodge or a historic mansion that’s now a family-owned B&B. (Photo: Adam approaches the real historic train caboose we spent the night in while exploring the Texas Hill Country. The caboose is part of The Antlers Inn in Kingsland.)
Cash fund
Two Nights in Unique Lodging
$500
Purchased
With this gift, you sprinkle some wonder on our honeymoon by covering our entry fees for a beautiful natural place. Thanks to you, we’ll have an opportunity to marvel at nature together. Maybe in a forest, maybe a show cave, maybe some hot springs…the possibilities are as vast as the Hill Country sky. (Pictured: Arizona's Antelope Canyon)
Cash fund
Park Entry Fee
$18
Purchased
With this selection, you actually give us two gifts: the experience of an excursion to a local market or shopping district, plus the honeymoon mementos we find there. Adam likes to look for vinyl records by area musicians, while Shelby gravitates toward handmade items like mugs and earrings. (Pictured: Adam in a record store in Santiago, Chile.)
Cash fund
Sentimental Souvenirs
$75
Purchased
Fun fact: We both had word-related majors in college - Adam studied English, Shelby outdoor communications. With this gift, you treat us to a leisurely outing to a bookstore and a small armload of books to take home, thus giving us even more stories (literally) from our honeymoon. (Photo: Shelby once visited this French-language bookstore in NYC located inside the French embassy. She doesn't speak French, she just wanted to gawk at the ceiling.)
Cash fund
Bring Home a Pile of Books
$120
Purchased
With this gift, you punctuate one of our honeymoon days with a meal at a restaurant overlooking a body of water, whether it be a lake, a river, a bayou patrolled by alligators, or the Arctic Ocean... Ok probably not the Arctic Ocean. (Photo: two Washington State ferries and a random seagull with excellent timing traverse Puget Sound, Washington State.)
Cash fund
Meal by the Water
$120
Purchased
Every city has restaurants with great food and gorgeous scenery, be it natural or architectural. With your generous gift, we’ll go enjoy one of them. We’ll savor every moment. (Photo: balconies in the French Quarter, New Orleans)
Cash fund
Dinner with a View
$150
Purchased
Send us out to dinner at a restaurant specializing in the regional flavors and local ingredients of our destination. With this gift, you enrich our trip by connecting us more deeply to the place we’re in. (Photo: During our 2023 Chile trip, we joked that huge portion sizes were a feature of the national cuisine. These sandwiches, from an indoor-outdoor restaurant in San Pedro de Atacama, appeared to have been made with an entire loaf of bread each.)
Cash fund
Local Flavors Dinner
$150
Purchased
With this gift, you elevate our honeymoon with a Michelin-grade fine-dining experience. We’ll relish every moment of wine and candlelight with love and gratitude. (Photo: Celele, a restaurant in Cartagena, Colombia. We've never been to Colombia but it's on our shortlist for future travel.)
Cash fund
Gourmet Dinner
$350
Purchased
With this gift, we’ll take a workshop for a traditional craft, or go on a private studio tour with a local artist, or something along those lines. Thanks to you, we’ll connect with our destination on a creative level and leave our honeymoon extra inspired. (Pictured: street art we spotted in Chile)
Cash fund
Art & Culture Experience
$150
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Gifts for the home (Amazon registry)
For all the days along the way