Weddingbee Blog

Last month, Mr. Starfish and I closed on our first home. (Yay!) What does this have to do with weddings? Well… not much, but it has a lot to do with our registry. I’ve mentioned before that we don’t have any basics. In college, we lived in a shore town that had everything included when you rent an apartment (due to also being a summer rental), including everything from furniture to cookware. After college, we moved in with Starfish Mom to save up for our little dream home and again didn’t have a need to buy any housewares.

So what is a soon-to-be-wed couple to do when they have nothing to put in their new place? Hmmm… one word comes to mind—registry. Over the past year, we’ve created our dream list of items for our future (now actual) home. We’ve searched and searched for the perfect place settings, glassware, bedding, lamps, trash cans, cookware, ironing board, etc.

My bridal showers are both in June, and between our closing date and the shower there is about a 3 month lapse of living in our home with nothing. So we started buying.

We’ve bought two place settings, pots and pans, a cutting board, dish towels, oven mitts and a few more misc. items—just some basics to get by. Thankfully we’ve been talking about moving out for the past two years and have accumulated quite a few gift cards to BB&B and Crate & Barrel from birthdays and Christmases, and even more luckily, Sister Starfish had done some upgrading on her registry and gave us some flatware and glassware to hold us over, too!

Has anyone else been tempted to buy items off their registry?