This is a rant that I just can't get off my mind.
Yesterday at a friend's cookout, I was talking with someone who is pretty travel savvy when it comes to budget vacation planning so I was picking her brain about FI and I going on a mini-vacation at the end of the summer. Another friend overheard a portion of our conversation and assumed we were discussing honeymoon planning.
"You guys should just do a honeyfund and have someone else pay for your honeymoon if you're worried about paying for it!" she exclaimed to my horror. Other friends began jumping in about how FI and myself should just forgo having a registry that we don't even have yet and ask people for money so we can go on a nice honeymoon.
I tried bean dipping the conversation but approximately 10 people in the room all chimed in about how honeyfunds are the way to go. My FI stated that we think asking for money is rude. "But it's not!" "I would much rather give you money than buy a toaster!" "Forget the rules! Just do a honeyfund and maybe someone will gift you $1,000 so you can go on a honeymoon!"

A huge part of me wanted to explode about how incredibly rude all of their suggestions were but I just changed the subject as quickly as possible. I've received two follow-up facebook conversations this afternoon from friends recommending two different honeymoon funding websites. One even suggested that I just "need to get over etiquette!"
How do you handles these conversations? Do you change the subject to avoid an awkward "but you are wrong about this!" talk? Do you explain that it's rude?