Hey there, hive! We are sooo excited to tell all of you brides- and grooms-to-be about this resource that is going to make registering a breeze: Wedding Republic is an online wedding registry tool that allows you to completely customize the gifts you wish to receive. The perfect honeymoon, a down payment on your dream home, more traditional items to fill your new pad…your registry is only limited by your own imagination!
Why choose Wedding Republic?
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Registering with Wedding Republic is free and easy. You can get started right now, or check out their website to see what other couples are saying about them. You can also check out Wedding Republic on Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest. Have fun, bees!
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I think it’s tacky to ask for guests to help with a down payment on your home. If you’re not financially sound enough to save for a 20% down payment on your own (this is what Suze Orman recommends), you shouldn’t be asking others to help you with your highly likely housing demise. This is what got America in trouble in the first place…people biting off more than they can chew and expecting others to come to their rescue when it was their wrong-doing in the first place.
@guest: I def. see what you’re saying, and around here I guess people are still not completely comfortable w “cash” type registries…but I think it’s going to be more common in the upcoming years…just a guess. To me I guess registering for china or crystal bowls if you just KINDA want them is sorta pointless too. But I come from a culture where cash is a normal gift, so this seems like just a new higher tech way to register for “cash” but give guests a tangible “tie” to what it’s going to buy you.
I don’t think it’s tacky at all. I think the entire point of a wedding registry is to ask for things you want so your guests who choose to use them have suggestions of what to get you. It’s not like you’d necessarily be getting into debt without help with the down payment; maybe you would have to postpone getting a house, have more money to spend on other things, etc. But if my guests did think it was tacky, then they are adults who can choose not to get it for me: I actually think this type of registry is really cool!
@guest:
It’s not necessarily to help fund the entire down payment, it’s just a little extra help! Most couples choose to break up that gift into smaller amounts of $50 each!
Beehive Feature Launched: Aug 31, 2006 About: A forum for readers to post questions and get feedback from the hive, aka the weddingbee community.
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