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We registered at Bloomingdale's and Crate & Barrel.

Our Bloomingdale's experience was incredible.  I felt completely pampered the whole day.  We had already set up a registry online, and had added a few china patterns that we liked, just to be sure we remembered which ones we had looked at.  When we got to Bloomingdale's for our appointment, they took our coats and bags into the back so we didn't have to worry about them, gave us cappucinos and pastries, and led us to a gorgeous table that had been set up with all of the china patterns we had on our registry, plus coordinating linens, flatware, and crystal.  We spent a couple of hours moving stuff around and bringing in new items until we had our table set just the way we wanted - then the Registry Coordinator added it all to our registry while we looked at kitchen stuff.  We found the staff to be amazingly helpful - we spent about 30 minutes each talking with a knife expert and the store chef about knives and pots and pans to see what would work best with our lifestyle.  The store chef made us lunch using a few of the kitchen items we registered for, and then we headed down to bed and bath...  Overall, it was great.

However, after our Bloomingdale's experience we were exhausted, so we just walked around C&B looking for stuff we needed/wanted, and then I entered it all online.

Registering was fun, but exhausting!  And I love checking our registry now and seeing so many things have been purchased!

Like @marzipan, we registered at BB&B and Macy's.  It was actually a lot of fun.  At BB&B they really do want to send an employee around with you to help you choose your registry items.  We politely declined this however.  I know they would have tried to push us into registering for stuff that we didn't want.  However, they were really nice when we said we didn't want the help, and they still checked in on us periodically, just in case we had any questions.  At Macy's the employees were very nice and helpful, and not pushy at all. 

I also agree that registering was pretty exhausing.  At both of our stores, we registered for a few actual items in the store, and then once we got tired we headed home, and added the rest of our registry items online through the stores' websites.