Emma and Don
Welcome to our registry! As many of you know, we love to travel. We have been fortunate to have enjoyed many adventures together already but are hoping you will help us make our honeymoon to Indonesia the most memorable yet. We plan to spend two weeks on Bali and Lombok exploring the natural beauty, culture, and cuisines of these Indonesian islands.
Indonesia Indonesia Ubud, Indonesia Indonesia Karangasem, Indonesia
VIP treatment through customs
$75
For every other trip we have taken together, we have flown coach on multi-leg flights, carefully trying to maximize our airline mile points value or find the least expensive path from point A to po...

Five nights at the Hanging Gardens Ubud
$1,400
Hanging Gardens Ubud is the epitome of luxury, and we cannot wait to indulge! We will be staying in a gorgeous villa with our own private infinity pool nestled among terraced tropical gardens overh...

Dinner at Bebek Bengil
$50
Locals claim that Bebek Bengil is the best place to try the crispy duck dish for which Ubud is famous: bebek tutu (smoked duck). Even if we aren't in a smoked duck sort of mood, the whole menu is d...

Walking tour of Ubud
$50
On all of our trips together, we have invariably embarked on ambitious self-guided walking tours, which have frequently afforded humorous, trying, or just memorable moments. Though the best experie...

Dinner and sunset drinks at beachfront seafood stalls
$50
We have heard bold claims that Bali offers some of the best sunset views in the world. We can't wait to test this theory! Watching the sun set from Jimbaran beach is a Bali rite of passage, so we'l...

Asian High Tea at Biku
$50
Owned by a Balinese royal princess, Biku is an eclectic tea lounge and restaurant and famous for its Asian High Tea. The princess's two favorite High Tea delicacies are the Salak (a fruit that loo...

Guided walking tour through the rice paddies
$75
The rice paddies around Ubud are so beautiful some of them have been designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Our guide, Wayan Sumerta, will take us on an early morning walking tour to see Bali as ...

Dinner at Merah Putih
$125
Merah Putih is unique for its "modern Indonesian" cuisine, a series of experimentations with traditional ingredients and flavors from across the archipelago. Designed as a modern expression of Indo...

Massages at Tamarind Spa
$100
There are day spas all over Bali (one of the only positive legacies of "Eat, Pray, Love") but Tamarind Spa is consistently rated among the best in Ubud. Located under a tamarind tree, all the massa...

Sunset drinks at Woobar
$50
As you probably already know, Don loves his market research. And Emma appreciates a study with a some solid data points as much as the next lady. So to really test the claim about Balinese sunsets ...

Guided tour of a Balinese coffee plantation
$75
If you have ever spent any time whatsoever with either of us, you know that we are passionate about our coffee. Don is an amateur home roaster (an initial selling point in our relationship that is ...

Guided local street food tour
$100
We love exploring new places through the local food and discovering new favorites to try and cook at home. On this adventure, a local foodie will take us to warungs (small shops), roadside stalls, ...

Dinner at Mozaic
$200
Mozaic seems to universally be considered the best restaurant in Bali. Hands down. Everyone seems to agree! With thematic tasting menus served in a magical garden, we don't want to miss Franco-Amer...

Four nights at The Purist Villas
$900
Set in lush tropical gardens, The Purist is a beautifully designed and intimate retreat a short walk outside Ubud, the cultural heart of Bali. With only seven villas, The Purist is actually the sma...

Guided tour of North Bali
$150
North Bali is home to craggy volcanoes, famous temples, and expansive crystal blue lakes. We'll visit the royal temple at Mengwi, which was built in 1634 as the family temple of the Mengwi dynasty;...

Dinner at Sarong
$100
Usually you find street food... at vendors on the street, but at Sarong, Chef Will Meyrick brings street food from across Asia - Thailand, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Sumatra, Bali, and Malaysia - to a rom...

Guided snorkeling tour off the coast of Bali
$150
We have heard that if you stay on land while you are in Bali, you only see half of the incredible scenery. We have never been snorkeling together and so are looking forward to trying it for the fir...

Private cooking class
$150
As many of you probably know, Emma loves to cook, and Don loves to challenge Emma to recreate the dishes we discover abroad back home! On this trip, however, we are going to go straight to the sour...

Tour of East Bali
$75
Eastern Bali is picturesque, with beaches, mountains, and villages far from the madding crowd. We are excited to adventure "through the looking glass" into the village of Pangi, where we will have ...

Champagne breakfast in bed
$75
We plan to celebrate the beginning of our life together with breakfast in bed and a chilled bottle of Duval-Leroy Brut Champagne. This sounds impossibly decadent and is something we would really li...

Dinner at Sardine
$150
A restaurant serving primarily local fish/seafood and organic greens, Sardine has gorgeous views with al fresco tables bumping up against the restaurant's seemingly endless working rice paddies. Th...

Flights to Lombok
$100
Though only 25 miles away from Bali across the Lombok Strait, the island of Lombok couldn't be further away from the hustle and bustle. The tourism infrastructure is much less developed here, and w...

Guided tour of the Gili Islands
$150
The Gili Islands are an archipelago of three small coral islands off the coast of Lombok: Gili Trawangan, Gili Meno, and Gili Air. With white sand beaches and crystal-clear turquoise water, these m...

Guided snorkeling tour off the coast of Lombok
$100
After snorkeling for the first time off the coast of Bali, we plan to hone our skills off the coast of Lombok. We'll travel in an outrigger boat from Lombok to the surrounding islands where the wat...

Sunset drinks on the beach
$50
If we only watched the sunsets from the Bali side of the Strait, we would be missing half the story! Lombok's got a point of view here! Thus as analytical people who like to view an issue from all ...

Three nights at the boutique Puncak Hotel
$450
The Puncak is an intimate, family-owned boutique hotel on the western side of Lombok. All five suites have an ocean view and open onto an infinity pool that seems to hang suspended in the sky with ...

Candlelight dinner
$100
We want the last night of our honeymoon to be truly special, and sometimes special calls for a little romance. Surrounded by candles, we will enjoy a romantic dinner with panoramic views of the sun...

Tour of Southern Bali
$75
For most of our time in Bali, our home base will be the central Balinese town of Ubud. However, we plan to spend our last day touring some of Bali's southern sights. We'll be on the first flight ou...

Lunch at Bumbu Bali
$75
Bumbu Bali serves traditional Balinese foods the way they are cooked in private homes or for festivals and celebrations. The menu includes delicacies such as slow-roasted chickens and ducks in bana...

Messages at Jari Menari
$100
Jari Menari, which means "Dancing Fingers", delivers pitch-perfect massages by an all-male staff that are literally world-famous. Though we won't have time on this trip to take one of their well kn...

Unique souvenir to remind us of our honeymoon
$200
We try to bring one thing home from every trip as a memento. Sometimes it is a photograph that one of us has taken that we love, so we frame it and hang it in our house. But we have also collected ...

Don's favorite charity: The Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment
$500
Don is a founding Board member for The Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment (MADE) in Oakland, CA. Born out of a successful Kickstarter after the national endowment for the arts reclassified vid...

Emma's favorite charity: the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship
$500
About a month before the wedding, Emma started a new job at the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE). While the timing wasn't ideal, the job is. NFTE provides programs that inspire young pe...