Weddingbee Blog

I’ll let you know tonight. (sigh) We are registering for the first time

When we registered, we had decided to put items we liked (wouldn’t necessary buy ourselves) in a reasonable price range. We also put items that were much more expensive so that if our friends/families wanted to buy us something as a group, there were items on our registry that allowed that. Most of the higher priced items were one of the first thing that were gone from our registry!

Our registry problem was that he didn’t think we could FIT anymore stuff in our apartment!! I tried to explain, well if we get new cookware, then we don’t have to keep all the really old gross broken cookware that came with our apartment (ahem, because the woman moving out DIDN’T WANT IT ANYMORE).

And then I sent him a link to a simplehuman trashcan just now and he thought I was crazy.

Just an FYI- we have that garbage can (received it as a gift off of our registry), and we love it! Remember that your registry is a WISH list, not a must buy list! You only get to do it once- go for it!

We had a fun time registering. But my husband couldn’t figure out why we needed more than 1 set of sheets and more than 2 towels!!! Luckily he came around.

He also kept scanning random things when I was looking. Like a pirate sword.

Yes, totally love the Simple Human trash can! Something my guy can relate to, since he takes out the trash. Totally worth $100. Fiance also very excited about $400 Dyson vacuum.

Wedding is in less than a month and every price point is being hit (with some surprisingly generous purchases), so you never know — broad variety and include practical and decorative items so people feel good about what they select.

The trend I notice is guests not buying stuff that is part of a larger set (dishes, china, silverware)… maybe they feel their gift is better remembered if it’s a stand-alone item like a vase.

I guess Mr. Kiwi isn’t alone then! I thought he’d like the scanner, too, but then he pressed some button on it and we had to get a new one. That’s when I was in charge of it!

For Christmas, we received two sets of our flatware and two sets of our barware! I figure we’re on a roll! Thankfully I can now update online, so that takes a lot of stress away!

When we went to Fortunoff, we fought through the entire process. We just didn’t know where to start and what to put on and got very frustrated at each other

Second time at C&B was better

I’m in the minority, I guess. My fiance has been excited about the prospect of having a registry from the start. After being engaged well over a year, we finally set ours up this past weekend - despite the fact that our wedding isn’t until October. We didn’t step one foot in a store - did it all online. We started with Target, but nixed it when we realized most of the stuff was only available online and not in their stores.

We finally settled on two stores - Bed, Bath and Beyond and Macy’s. Macy’s is our expensive registry with Vera Wang china and expensive flatware (though not silver, much to the chagrin of my future mother in law — sorry, but I can’t bring myself to list something that is over $200 a setting). One of my coworkers found our Bed Bath and Beyond registry and bought us stuff right away! I was shocked! I’ve never been so excited to get cake pans and measuring cups in all my life.

my FI pretends like he doesn’t care about the registry, but at the same time he will expect us to pick things that are “not too girly” and are actually kind of manly. if it were up to him, we would be living in a bachelor pad. i think when registering, you need to get things reasonably priced, i say anything over $150-200 is starting to get expensive, and the likelihood that it will get bought is low. at the same time, when you register for cheap things $5-10, people don’t want to buy something cheesey like that, which you could just buy for yourself..