Miss Milkshake, Seattle/Vancouver, BC
Age and Occupation: 23, Pharmacist
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 25, Pharmacist
Engagement Date: May 2007
Wedding Date: August 2008
Blogging Since: December 6, 2007
Venue: Victorian Mansion
About Me: Despite the fact that I’ve invested many long years of my life studying the sciences in college, I’m glad to be out of there and I would never do it again! I’m super artsy at heart - I run an indie craft site, I grew up shooting and developing my own film, doing jazz and ballet, and the whole gamut of art classes. I’ve been called a Jane of all Trades… but I was also told many years ago not to make my passion my career because it’d suck the fun out of it. Hence my choice of day job. We live in Seattle but are having our wedding in Canada to be fair to all our family and friends.
Bare Bones Registry
May 14th, 2008 @ 9:29 am by Miss Milkshake
We had our first adventure into wedding registry gunning yesterday, and I must say that I wish I hadn’t learned how to do a warehouse order at work last week because that scanning gun was cooler!
It’s kinda like when I was a kid and I wanted a checkout scanner playset not all that different than this one to the right. I do a minimal amount of cash register work at my retail job, and my dad thought I might love scanning the items since I loved my playset so much as a child, but not so.
Somehow we were pretty frugal about the list and didn’t pick too many insanely expensive things, or, for that matter, too many things in general! We walked away with only 39 items, 10 of which were expensive furniture items that we have no intention of guests buying but that we can get for 10% off after the wedding. We’re currently so deprived of furniture that Mr. Milkshake just wants to slam the money down for a bunch of pieces. Meanwhile I’m almost tempted to make up a separate registry under an alias name with a wedding date that’s a few weeks away so we can get the furniture sooner. Am I alone in my sneakiness? I noticed there were options for other types of registries - celebrations, birthdays, etc - but I’m thinking they don’t get the 10% off deal after the fact.
At the end of it all, I got a free heart shaped candy bowl and I rewarded the mister with part of my chocolate frosty and his very own a frosty milkshake.
5 Responses to “Bare Bones Registry”
For the furniture, you will still be able to add things to your registry after your wedding date before redeeming the 10% off if you don’t want guests to see this. We added things for both our Crate and Barrel and Macy’s registries afterwards.
In fact, for Macy’s they still offer some specials for things on your registry months after your wedding date so we still add things! (Almost 6 months later!)
i want that green chair too!
Is that the Madison porcelain dinnerware? That was our main china pick, and then we supplemented it with some crazier pieces from other collections (even if they weren’t a perfect match) because we wanted to add in some color.
another tip - if you don’t put too many items on the registry but have big things on there like furniture, you may end up with a lot of guests giving gift cards, which you can then use to purchase the furniture items, with the 10% discount. We did that for those leaning desks at C&B and a new rug at Macy’s. It’s a nice option when you really need bigger items more than the little stuff.
You still get the 10% off coupon regardless of what type of event it is - I registered for Christmas a couple of years ago and got the coupon 
So knock yourself out! Register for your birthday, Memorial Day, Flag Day… It’s all valid!
