Weddingbee Blog

Well, we’ve done it! We’re officially registered… at 4 places. And there is a wild card in there that I want to share. The place is called HomeClick. Anybody heard of them or used them?

At first, we were going to register at Michael C. Fina. But the china pattern we picked was very expensive, so I started to do some research on where I could get it cheaper and stumbled across HomeClick. They have a gift registry and they had both our day and formal china patterns for MUCH cheaper than anywhere else. Here are a few random examples that I plucked from different sites (not from my own registry since I wanted to experiment and see if it worked for other items too):

For example, this Rosenthal Inspiration 5 piece place setting–

is $198 at Michael C. Fina (per place setting), but costs $124 (no tax too) at Homeclick.

This Orrefors vase–

is $335 at Michael C. Fina, but costs $251 at Homeclick.

This 5 qt oval oven from Le Creuset–

is $290 at Bloomingdales, but costs $143 at Homeclick (in white…$179 for other colors).

Homeclick tends to be cheaper for less expensive items too. For instance, our day pattern is $15 cheaper than elsewhere plus no tax and free shipping (a lot of items have free shipping, but not all). Our formal pattern is $100 cheaper per setting! There were a few items that were the same price, but so far I haven’t found any that cost more than other places.

It seemed like a no brainer to register with them. Why ask people to pay more for things than they need to? And perhaps this way I will get a few of the more expensive items I wanted, because they are a little more reasonable in price. The concern I had, however, is that many places will hold all your gifts until the end and ship after you have made final decisions. HomeClick does not and will not work that way. The thought of my tiny (did I say tiny? I meant so small two M&Ms could barely fit in there) apartment stacking up with gifts was a bit scary. Also, HomeClick is only online and not known to most people so I will really have to spread the word. And then there is the pain of shipping things back to exchange (they pay for return shipping).

I bit the bullet and did it though. I hope it works out and that people use it since many of the things I really want are on there! Fingers crossed!