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Do you ever look at other brides' registries and sort of lose your mind at the stuff people request?
We registered a couple weeks ago and I am starting to think I was overly concerned about what we picked and how it looked on a registry. I didn't want us to come off as trying to gift grab, but we were mindful to have a good price point selection so as to appeal to everyone... but some friends and acquaintances are sort of blowing my mind.
The worst I've seen so far is someone registered for batteries. A 4 pack of batteries.
You don't have batteries? Come on!
I can do you one better...I was a guest at the wedding where the bride had household cleaning products, insect killer, makeup, etc on her gift registry...youc an't make this stuff up....and the registry was 15 pages long.
Honestly, I think registering is one of the most stressful parts of the planning process.
Makeup and a can of Raid, huh?
Sometimes I think adding that "drugstore" inside of Bed Bath and Beyond was the worst idea ever.
Hahaha unbelievable! I havent started my registry yet. I still have 6 months but i will be sure to be careful. I was thinking since i want to take a cruise for our honeymoon i would set up a registry with a cruisline and the guest can help plan our trip. As for the battery people.. wow no class.
i can one up you... this is for a baby registry, but the couple registered at louis vuitton. LUIS VUITTON. What do they have there, like 3 baby items? The womam registered for purses and luggage. WTH??? Do you seriously think Im going to send you a $700 purse - i mean diaper bag (but its really a purse)- as baby shower gift. HELLO!!! We're all working class people here...no trumps, hiltons, odoms... again. WTH?
lol. thank you for this post! makes me feel a LOT better about asking people to buy me some bath towels!
@FutureMrsMorgan, they should have just gone all out and registered at Land Rover because the baby needed a good place to put the car seat.
even crazier is that LV doesnt do registries. They have 'wish lists" and they are store specific. So you would have to go to/call the actual store she created the 'wish list' at. Greedy...and irrational. Thats all I can say.
I am afraid to Google "mangroomer" at work to find out what that is.
Good god, it's too close to lunch, please tell me it's an above-the-collar device.
I think it's rude to put something on there that you KNOW none of your friends can afford. After lunch one day, the bride to be kept asking her fiance, you have a family member who will buy us that, right?
No, no one is going to buy you a $400 dollar trash can. Your friends are barely making it, get a clue.
you know, a good ol' multi purpose shaver - probably known most for being a hard to reach places shaver. I am guessing the groom's back is (or was?) hairy as hell. blahhhh :-P
These are kind of funny. I can see how it'd be tempting to transfer your grocery list to your wedding registry. ;)
@MissACS - I'm pretty sure it's for manscaping all areas! LOL!
I love the registries that have $350 saute pans on them. Is Oprah on your guestlist?
"Registering" for baby stuff at Louis Vuitton is like inviting people to talk s**t about you. I'm sorry but who does that and thinks people will think it's normal/acceptable? And who wants a LV diaper bag anyway? Why would you want something so expensive that is so closely associated (and located) to baby poop. Come on.
There is a really odd custom called a wishing well, in which people are supposed to bring common household like toilet paper and light bulbs to the bridal shower, and place them unwrapped into a big wishing well to help a new couple outfit their new home. It's probably a nice custom for a 21 year old starting out, but since my husband and I are both in our 30s and each had our own homes, we sent all the duplicate stuff people bought us to Guatemala. The good news is that it made my mom happy to have the wishing well, and it probably made the people of Guatemala happy to have potholders. So your friends may be registering for a wishing well.
I had friends put a home pregnancy kit on their wedding registry. I think they eventually took it off.
haha! that's pretty funny.
OT - when at the dollar store looking for misc wedding stuff for bags and things, I noticed that they sell pregnancy tests in the checkout line for $1 at Dollar Tree. What a steal! haha.
"I had friends put a home pregnancy kit on their wedding registry."
OMG no they didn't. AHAHA. That's my favorite of this thread so far.
Oh jeez. Uh, a manscaper definitely falls under TMI about the groom.
I agree about the saute pan kind of things, but I've heard expensive items like that explained two different ways to me:
"Is it that much different than a KitchenAid mixer in cost? Everyone seems to register for those."
and
"If people don't buy it, and we don't think anyone will, we can get a discount after when completing the registry and buy it ourselves."
Another thing I don't like? Registering for a $30 toilet brush. I don't think I want to buy you a gift that is going to be used for cleaning the commode and then thrown away at some point in the near future. I'd just as soon tape 30 one-dollar bills together and make you a roll of money toilet paper.
Remember the scene in "Four Weddings and a Funeral" when he goes to get her a gift and everything is artwork that's thousands of dollars?
I can see how a few people would pitch in and buy a KitchenAid mixer, but I don't think I would want to pitch in to buy some outrageously priced pan. I mean, it's just a pan, right? You can buy a whole set of perfectly good pans for $350!
Here's part of the registry from a wedding FI and I recently attended:
Movies- including Indiana Jones, 21, and Almost Famous
Tide
Coppertone sunscreen
Candy/Gum/Oreos
Light bulbs
Zyrtec, Advil, Aleve
Pepsi
Registering at Target makes it way too easy to add weird stuff like this. I am all for the bride and groom getting what they want but COME ON!
I am personally insulted by the inclusion of the movie "21"
That was a terrible, terrible movie.
@arizonabride - I have to disagree RE: the "I mean, it's just a pan, right? You can buy a whole set of perfectly good pans for $350!" Yes, you can buy a cheaper cookware set like I did a couple years ago, but it is of lesser quality and does not last, hence my annoyance at my need for new cookware already. It annoys me that I do already have certain things and have to register for them and get new ones, but the cheaper stuff just doesn't last. So, yeah, I'll register for an expensive crock pot or a pan because I know I won't have to replace it in two years. With certain things, I think it is worth it to go for the more expensive brands just because it is a matter of quality. I don't expect to get everything on the registry, but if I do then score for me.
Hey, at least it's not a Louis Vuitton diaper bag...
@kittyachi - Very true. The diaper bag is the worst. I like to buy quality things as well, but I'm talking about stuff that really isn't better quality. It's just from a store that's completely overpriced. The particular registry I saw these things on didn't really have anything under $200 on it and the couple didn't register anywhere else.
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Oh my gosh, some of these registries are funny!
I think the weirdest/funniest thing I've seen on an actual registry is chip clips. They were $.50 each. It was weird. They did not get them, needless to say, because no one wanted to be the weirdo who gifted the couple chip clips.
ahahahaha yes this one needs a bump i'm very much enjoying hearing the ridiculous things people register for
here i've got one. the most ridiculous thing i've seen on a registry was a $350 jerky maker. i still think the home preggers test wins, but the jerky thing cracked me up when i was on the couple's registry. someone had already bought it, too.
I'm gonna have to defend the $350 pan as well: I love to cook, and good quality cookware really really makes a difference. I don't think it's right to judge what other couples choose to place on their registry, as long as they have gifts in an array of prices. If it's too expensive for you, then don't buy it! Many of my married friends have encouraged me to put the more expensive stuff on there, because they say that a lot of their relatives and family friends wanted to splurge and get them awesome gifts, and that stuff like the $350 pan were the first to go.
Ooooh I hope my Le Creuset pans are the first to go! I desperately need to replace the stuff I have and I just love Le Creuset. I have one and it is the best thing ever and dominates the kitchen and all my other cookware items bow before it.
I posted HERE about one of FI's family members and her registry.
The wedding was interesting, to say the least. I promise that FI and I heard the PSHHHHT of a beer opening DURING the vows...
"I am personally insulted by the inclusion of the movie "21". That was a terrible, terrible movie."
LOL MISSACS!!!!!!!
Haha this is hilarious.
I do have a confession though, kittyachi...my fiance would TOTALLY register for a jerkey maker. I agree that $350 on a novelty like that is pretty ridiculous, but my guy has a little red on his neck and would LOVE to turn his venison next fall into some tasty jerky. AND, his hunting buddies would love to join in together on purchasing us a gift like that.
Point is, I suppose sometimes ridiculous registry items come down to letting each other have a couple of non-essential fun items to look forward to receiving. Chip clips on that other hand? Why not just pick those up with your pocket change?
Great thread.
The registry for the last wedding I went to included a welcome mat. It said "Welcome to our CRIB." It killed me just a little and made me never want to register at Target.
@farmersdaughter - oh, i know the groom of the couple that registered for the jerky maker and it 110% made sense that he would want a jerky maker on the registry. he's a hardcore midwestern boy and he loves his hunting and his jerky. i just thought it was one of the funnier items id seen. i didnt even knew jerky makers existed LOL can you tell i'm a city girl?
Hah! This is an awesome thread. I remember when my friends were 1st getting married out of college and registering for fine china, stemware etc. All I could think was "Dude, I've seen you eat chinese food off a shag rug & you want me to buy you Waterford flutes?" LOL
I agree with everyone saying quality lasts longer. I love Le Cruset but I think it's way too pricey. I got a cast iron dutch oven for my b-day but it was Martha Stewart.
About the random household items on the registry... Did they bride actually register for these items? I started noticing lots of random stuff on my friends' registries i.e. birthday candles, batteries, etc. Then I realized that there was a zero in the "number of items registered for" column. With bed bath & beyond, they put everything that you purchase in that transaction. So, even if that pack of gum or batteries were really for you, they suddenly show up as a random item on someone's registry. That may be the case here. But, it's still funny regardless!!!
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