Weddingbee Blog

A few months ago, Mr. Dolphin and I went and registered for gifts at Bed Bath and Beyond. To tell you the truth, we hadn’t planned on registering at all. When Mr. Dolphin and I moved in together, we were merging two kitchens, two bathrooms, two bedrooms, two living rooms… we had two of everything! Granted, our ’two of everything’ consisted of towels from our college dorm rooms, sheets and bedding from our high school years, and very girly (blue with polka dots) and very manly (black) dinnerware. Needless to say, Mr. Dolphin and I feel like we really don’t need anything (although a few things deserve to be upgraded).

So, one of the first things we did after booking our Hawaiian honeymoon to Maui was register our honeymoon at Honeymoon Wishes. We felt that an experience was worth more to us then material things. Our guests could find us on the Honeymoon Wishes website and (if they so choose) gift us with a snorkeling adventure, surfing lessons, gas for the road to Hana, lunch by the ocean, or even a biking adventure down the volcano (how cool is that?!).

Then, there arose a problem.

And when I say problem, Mr. Dolphin will tell you there wasn’t a problem. I have a bridal shower being hosted in my honor (how lucky am I?) by Mr. Dolphin’s mother, that is quickly approaching. While I can’t wait to eat yummy food, spend time with the wonderful women in my life, and play fun shower games, I am nervous about not registering at a big box store. Plus, registries make it easy for guests. If a guest would like to gift you with something that will be with you and your husband throughout your entire lives, they can look up your registry and get you something you need.

So, off we were to Bed Bath and Beyond, armed with a list of things we actually need, so we wouldn’t be distracted by all the shiny objects and go registry-crazy.

We only managed to cross off 3 items on this list… it helped to know what we were looking for, though!

After we picked up our handy dandy scanner (of which Mr. Dolphin immediately grabbed and started pressing buttons on), we were off!

Mr. Dolphin had a good time with the scanner.

So, we scanned our little hearts out for about an hour, jamming out to Miley Cyrus over the store’s stereo (I even caught Mr. Dolphin humming to the music). As we were quickly finishing the kitchen gadget and electronic area, we ran into every bride’s ’must-have’ registry item: The infamous Kitchen Aid Stand Mixer.

I’ve been told it’s the holy grail of wedding registry items. But Mr. Dolphin and I passed on the Kitchen Aid Stand Mixer, as we don’t have the counter space for this baby, nor do we make anything that would require such a piece of heavy duty machinery. As much as I would like this sweet mixer in ’ice’ to match our kitchen,  I will just have to wait ’til we have a big house and I start a baking company out of our house (which is not happening anytime soon… or at all).

Rule #1 of registering for Mr. Dolphin and Miss Dolphin is: Don’t register for any Pyrex.

Seminole Bridesmaid received TONS of Pyrex at her bridal shower and wedding, and when I mean TONS, I mean she can make a dish and throw out the Pyrex instead of cleaning it because she has a garage full of more Pyrex. It is quite comical how much Pyrex she has. {Hmm…. I wonder if she will be gifting us with Pyrex?} Our response… we didn’t register for any Pyrex. What we have now is enough.

When we had finished scouring the store for things we needed, we headed to the front of the store and had our registry printed out. Here are a few things we registered for:

source: Bed Bath and Beyond

source: Bed Bath and Beyond

source: Bed Bath and Beyond

source: Bed Bath and Beyond

Where did you all register? Did any of you already have just about everything before your wedding? How did you deal with that?