Rachel & Brian

Rachel caught the ballet bug early on and kept dancing throughout high school and college. Although she has hung up her pointe shoes, she would love your help to attend a professional performance with her new husband!

Yeah, you read that right...a tour completely centered around chocolate. Chocolate Ecstasy Tours takes us around London neighborhoods on foot while we indulge in fine chocolate, coffee, pasties, and the like. A great way to explore the city!

With your gift, we will get to visit all SIX of the historic Royal Palaces around London and their beautiful gardens.

London's foremost jazz venue, the music at Ronnie Scott's really runs the gamut...classic jazz, to be sure, but also Latin, jive, blues, and even flamenco. What a romantic way to spend a late evening in a gorgeous city as newlyweds!

Our mutual love of Shakespeare is one of the first things we talked about. Help us experience a show at the Globe Theatre, the way people would have in Shakespeare's time!

Yes, they are pretty much COMPLETELY sold out, BUT every Friday they release the Friday Forty (which for those of you in the know, is somewhat like the lottery on Broadway but way more civilized and with no megaphones). And even just the tiniest house-elf-sized glimmer of a chance to be able to see this show is enough for us! And hey, if we don't win? Maybe we can Expelliarmus someone out of their tickets.

Have we mentioned yet how much we love Shakespeare?

There is nowhere else to get an aerial view of London this spectacular! Add a couple glasses of champagne and we're on board (pun totally intended).

With your wedding gift we will reserve a night in our Honeymoon Suite and indulge in luxury that exceeds all of our expectations. Our honeymoon suite is not just romantic; it's spacious, comfortable, luxurious and very private. Thank you for Suite Memories!

As much as we'd love to stay in the lap of luxury of our honeymoon suite the entire time, we also want to experience what it's like to do London as locals. Airbnb lets us rent an entire flat to ourselves, so we'd love your help to find the perfect (temporary) home while we celebrate our marriage!

If any of you knows Brian or Rachel AT ALL, you know that food drives our very existence. There is so much amazing food from so many diverse cultures available in London and beyond and we want to try it all! From takeaway curry to iconic fish and chips to steak and kidney pie to ploughman's lunch to afternoon tea...help us eat our way through the UK!

"Tea, tea, tea..." as P.G. Wodehouse wrote, and we intend to indulge as much as we can! Taking tea and that little smackerel of something between lunch and dinner...no one does it like Fortnum & Mason and their Diamond Jubilee Tea Salon.

So we like food. In case you couldn't tell. And Harrod's high tea service is pretty much the pinnacle of class. Finger sandwiches, currant scones with clotted cream, salty caramel croquembouche...our biggest challenge will be trying to wedge ourselves out the door when we're done!

OK, you didn't think there was only going to be ONE category devoted to food, did you? But seriously, this restaurant is one of Rachel's favorites in London (and the first place she ever tried goat cheese, for those of you into weird and useless trivia). We would love your help to share a special meal here on our first night in London.

No trip to England would be complete without a pub visit or several (a day). English beer styles are unique and delicious, and among Brian's favorites! We will be thinking of you all as we toast our new marriage again and again.

So there's already a category for pubs, but this one is extra special and nestled right alongside the Thames! Brian remembers it fondly from the semester he spent abroad in London, and wants to share it with his new wife!

No one wants in the car with Rachel while she figures out how to drive on the opposite side of the road through a whole bunch of roundabouts, so help us visit gorgeous Scotland without the scary prospect of renting a car!

J.R.R. Tolkien lived and wrote here. So did C.S. Lewis. And Oscar Wilde. And Philip Pullman. And Lewis Carroll. We could keep going, but we think the appeal is obvious.

Any help to get to and from our destination is a wonderful gift. We will be thanking you long after take off.

We fell in love thanks to a well-timed question about a book, our wedding theme centers around books, so what better way to enjoy our honeymoon than with a trip to a library? The British Library houses some of the most gorgeous and rare volumes in the world, and we would love to see some of the techniques they use to preserve their amazing collection on a private conservation tour.

We won't know everything we want to do/eat/see/smell/touch/punch/laugh at/listen to/have unresolved yet confusing feelings for until we GET there! So for all the things we haven't thought of yet, feel free to give the gift of mystery and spontaneity. Also, here is a picture of a waffle.

Touted as the UK's Best Day Spa, Ushvani will be a lovely place to unwind and relax together upon our arrival in London.

The Harry Potter film series made Leavesden its home for more than ten years. As the books were still being released while the films were being made, the production crew saved many of the iconic sets, props and costumes that were created especially for the films - just in case they were ever needed later on in the series. And now, several years after the last film wrapped, WE WANNA SEE IT ALL!!! Rachel shares a birthday with Harry Potter, so...they're pretty much related.

Billed as a London arcade of satirical homemade machines, you can see such machines as Is It Art? (an expert determines whether any presented object is art), Alien Probe ('Investigate the captive alien, but try not to annoy it'), and the regulator-evasion game of Money Laundering. I dunno guys...it's weird. We're weird. Games are fun.