I remember being very excited to register for our wedding. After the husband and I moved in together we did the whole merging of the worlds exercise. For example, we kept his couches, but I got to keep my bedroom set. Deciding what to keep vs. discard was a fairly easy process for us. However, nothing in our apartment was really “ours”. For example our kitchen dishes were handed down to me from my mother when she redid the kitchen — this was back when I was still in college. They have got to be at least 10 years old. The dishes have really held up well, but we wanted dishes that we had chosen together.
Side Note – I think this is officially my second blog post with no pictures. The problem is I didn’t take pictures when we went on these registry excursions. I was going to take pictures of our wedding gifts, but didn’t think that would be fun to look at LOL. In any event I hope you enjoy the post and I promise to have pictures in the next post! :)
The husband I scheduled an evening to do our first round of registering. Off to Crate and Barrel we went. Despite sitting in traffic for an hour to get the big Tyson’s Corner store instead of going to the smaller store in DC I was in great spirits. We walked up to the counter “hi we need to register”, which was followed by the whole, congrats, when is the wedding and here’s how you work your scanning gun. Okay now where do we start? I had done a little pre-shopping online and we had agreed on some glasses. Scan – enter quantity. Ummm how many do we need? I had no idea and my husband looked at me smiled and shrugged his shoulders. After just sort of staring at each other for 30 seconds he reminds me we can update the quantity online. Okay great we can do that later so there is no need to worry. Now what?
Imagine walking around the store for over an hour and randomly choosing things. We had no idea what we needed or how much. There were also a few items we couldn’t agree upon. We left the store a bit defeated, okay maybe a lot defeated! I thought registering would be easy and fun … not so much. As we returned our scanner they gave us two heart shaped champagne glasses as a gift! At least there was a little reward at the end of our attempt to choose things for the registry.
As we drove home I texted one of my bridesmaids, who also recently got married, and reported our less than successful registry experience. She had some great advice for us … take a parent (or parents) with you to register. The parents are able to help with how many of an item you need, what stuff you will want to have that you might not be aware of and when needed the parent can mediate the choosing process. =)
This is exactly what we need!! My mother (more than) happily agreed to accompany us to the next store and provide us with her expert advice! A few weeks later when the husband and I were visiting my parents we headed to Bloomingdale’s with my mom. We were a lot more successful the second time around and both found her suggestions extremely helpful.
So there you have it … our wedding registry experience in a nutshell. Do you have any tidbits from registering that might help a current/future bride to be??
Happy planning!
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