Weddingbee Blog

Mr. A and I have been waiting until after this past Christmas to register (see: why you need an olive pitter). Once the New Year rolled around, we waited for the perfect opportunity (i.e. an open weekend) to register and signed up for one of Crate and Barrel’s Wedding Registry parties. Now, why’d we do this? One reason – you get the store to yourself. Well, sort of. You get the store to yourself in the sense that the only other people in the store are other engaged couples registering, too (so about 25-30 people max). AND, you get food and mimosas. Score.

So, armed with my registry spreadsheets (you read that right), our scanner and my camera, we took off and started scanning away.

The next two are the obligatory “quick—pick something up and pretend you’re shopping” shots.

Yeah, flatware!!

Mr. A after two hours of conquering the C&B. And, for the record, he really enjoyed it. There are no horror stories of him dreading every second.

I’m not exactly sure how many items we registered for, but it was a good enough amount of items. And, we left with a gift in hand: two heart-shaped champagne glasses that I have NO idea what to do with (similar to Miss Hot Wing’s heart-shaped glass dish). If you want them, let me know (we surely don’t).

I did manage to make my way over to Williams-Sonoma (with my second registry spreadsheet in hand) later that day to finish up our kitchen registry alone. The Mr. definitely was not feeling browsing the kitchen goods – this was not his area. This is unfortunate for him since I got to pick out the knife set. I hope he likes white-handled Wuesthofs!

How did you tackle registering? Was your SO present on all of your registering trips?