Registering For Big Ticket Items
April 29th, 2008 @ 4:25 pm by Mrs. Toucan
When we first started registering for gifts, Mr. Toucan and I weren’t really sure what price ranges our gifts should fall under. We didn’t want to look like we were asking for too much, but at the same time, we didn’t want to register for things we didn’t really like either. When we registered at Macy’s (I know a lot of people here don’t like the Macy’s registry, but it’s easy for our guests), they provided us with a little guideline of how many gifts we should register in each price range. The registry consultant also suggested that we add a few “big ticket items” to our registry. This made me feel a little uncomfortable. What would guests think when they saw a $400 price tag on ONE item? Would they think we were greedy, asking for something so expensive?
In the end, I figured we had enough items at different price points in our registries, so I added this bad boy:
Dyson Slim Upright Vacuum
The Hostess With the Mostess
April 24th, 2008 @ 10:28 am by Mrs. Canary
From one of my favorite artists and domestic commentator, Anne Taintor
{Image from here}
Mr. Canary and I took the plunge and registered at Crate and Barrel a few months back. Though we are combining two households and really don’t need more “stuff,” we decided to register for a few items for our new home for the more traditional guests.
A Nice Surprise!
April 21st, 2008 @ 5:44 pm by Mrs. Hydrangea
Seeing that every weekend these days is full of things to do, I sometimes forget to check my e-mail. When I opened up my inbox this morning, I received a nice surprise - a wedding gift had been purchased off our registry!
While it’s not our first gift (we received a few gifts at our engagement party back in October), it is the first from a distant relative and completely unexpected at such an early date from the wedding!
As much as I would like to say I am going to wait until the box arrives, I went to check our registry and found out that this is the item that we are receiving:
China Options On Ebay!
April 16th, 2008 @ 11:41 am by Mrs. Magnolia
I have got to say, we have had a TIME trying to complete our everyday china since the wedding. We received approximately four bread and butter plates, forty-seven salad plates, twenty-one dinner plates, one soup bowl, a sugar bowl, and a notification that a mug has been on backorder since Christmas. Thanks a million, Macy’s and Bloomie’s.
We selected Wedgwood’s Night and Day pattern, and while it doesn’t seem to be heading into retirement anytime soon… well, it’s also not the *easiest* pattern to find. I do take partial blame, since I insisted that we not register for the five-piece place setting. While that would have been easier, I couldn’t be less interested in a cup/saucer combo. Bring on the soup bowls on mugs! Anyway, I’ve suggested to Mr. Magnolia that we supplement our everyday china with some plain white pieces (hello, Martha!), but he’s surprisingly adamant about keeping our stuff very “matchy-matchy.”
I do love the contrasting fluted/checkerboard patterns on this china. I just wish we could collect all of it! [Image courtesy of wedgwoodusa.com.]
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International Wedding Registry Dramaz
April 9th, 2008 @ 12:21 pm by Mrs. Gingerbread
Let me tell you a little story about registering in Canada, while trying to keep our American guests in mind. We decided to register at the Bay, a Canadian department store that allows people with U.S. billing addresses to order from their site. It works out since we can pick up gifts in store, cutting out shipping costs.
When we arrived at the store last month, the scanners at the department store were down. How anticlimactic! Even though we scoffed at the suggestion that we’d need a couple of hours on the first visit, and an hour or so for the second and third visits to build our registry, we did spend a couple of hours wandering around. However, we opted not to write things down by hand. That seemed too archaic, time consuming and just not as much fun as zapping our desired items.
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I’m A Stalker
April 8th, 2008 @ 5:08 pm by Mrs. Tiramisu
I love logging on to stalk my registries and see what’s been bought, and what’s listed in the “still need” category. What is it about getting married that makes me think I’ll suddenly have use for lots of kitchen gadgets, china, and fancy vases? My dad got such a big kick out of me putting a combination cake platter-punch bowl onto my registry that he bought it for me for Christmas. Now how many people can say their dad made such a purchase for them?
I’m going to have to fill this with cake often in order for
Mr. Tiramisu to stop questioning the usefulness of a cake dome.
Popularity Contest
April 3rd, 2008 @ 3:39 pm by Ms. Dahlia
There’s a bit of a popularity contest running right now between the registries. (And no, I haven’t peeked.) Dillard’s is single handedly destroying the competition, as it seems that most people thus far greatly prefer shopping at Dillard’s over Williams-Sonoma or Crate and Barrel.
My explanation for that? It’s a generational thing. People in my parents’ generation much prefer to shop at traditional department stores, whereas our friends would be much more likely to go to Crate and Barrel.
And popularity items? China wins, hands down. Confirming the observation by Mr. Dahlia’s mom and her dear friend, people just love giving a 5 piece place setting. (Maybe it helps that our china pattern is priced at the totally-reasonable-for-china price at $70/place setting. But it’s so pretty)
Gratuitous china picture from here.
What registry have you found to be the most popular?
Wine Glass For The Klutz
April 3rd, 2008 @ 10:28 am by Mrs. Penguin
We went wine tasting a few weeks ago in Napa and made quite possibly the greatest discovery in barware that I had to share with the hive! Mr. Penguin and I are blessed/cursed with impossibly hard counter tops, and since moving into our place, we’ve broken/destroyed lots of our plates and glasses. One slip of the hand and its the end of the line for our Ikea balloon wine glasses…they’ve treated us so well, and there we go, smashing them to bits.
One of the wineries we visited had the most beautiful wine glasses, and I asked to know what brand of glass they were.
Who Out There Has A Registry At Tiffanys?
March 28th, 2008 @ 2:59 pm by Mrs. Milkshake
Despite the fact that I’ve bought him a PS3, xbox 360, and a wii, I was surprisingly excited to see that he unpacked my Super Nintendo and played Super Metroid last night, hailed by some as the best game of all time.
So that left me with some time to blog, and I’ve still got registry on my mind. When I think registry, all I really think about is the kitchen and perhaps 1000 count sheets and duvet covers that I would never justify buying for myself. I’ve read in more than one place that you can register at Tiffany’s, and this blows my mind. Though the Elsa Peretti Open Heart pendant is, I admit, clean and simple, I am so far removed from that kind of jewelry and that type of shop (save for my classic solitaire, to my humble suprise, à la Tiffany’s).
So if I could register for something as frivolous as jewelry, this would be what I would want. It’s all handmade.
Living Off College Cookware For The Past 7 Years
March 26th, 2008 @ 2:03 pm by Mrs. Milkshake
The rest of this registry talk is going to be prefaced by a long story, the beginning of which involves my birthday!
My parents made a big deal of my birthday last year even though I had just brushed it off. They smuggled a tuxedo cake across the border, strawberries and all. My mother also expertly picked out a wonderfully large double boiler because I had mentioned that I’d wanted to steal my aunt’s. Yay for steamed vegetables!
I have the same handful of random pots my mother had lent me when I moved out for university at seventeen. Two pots and one frying pan. I did fork out $12 for a large cast iron frying pan this fall, but that was all. Seriously. And I don’t go out for dinner very often. I’ve somehow managed to avoid investing in Le Creuset pans, as well as simple kitchen essentials like a garlic press, a decent bottle opener, metal measuring cups etc. etc. in the name of “I need to wait for the gift registry.”
