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Did she tell anyone where she registered? I sometimes wait until the last minute to buy a gift off the registry. Or maybe most people will give her money.
I know for my shower, people literally waited until the last minute to get me something or just got me gift cards. I was worried when I didn't see too many things crossed off of the list. We just ended up getting them ourselves with the gift cards.
Well, what I hope is that maybe people didn't feel like going out to get anything and are just planning on giving her money.
Hopefully people didn't decide to get creative. I know it's the thought that counts, but I've seen too many "creative" gifts before.....
Yes! It's on her website (which was on an enclosure card in the invitations). Plus if you enter her name on weddingchannel.com, the registries pop up there too. I hope most people wind up giving her money - it's so strange to me. Mine's a month later than hers (early December), and about 20% of our registries are gone, and I have half the number of attendees (and a smaller registry too).
We got mainly cash and gift cards but then again we weren't registered anywhere, but from talking to others it seems that a lot of people are giving cash lately.
She'll probably receive mostly monetary gifts. This happened to my friends who got married in August... FI and I got them something from their registry, but almost no one else did! Luckily they were stand-alone items (a full cookware set and full knife set) instead of invidual settings of china or something, so that they can still use them! They received almost exclusively cash as wedding gifts, and it was just their American friends (FI and I and other schoolmates of theirs) who bought from the registry.
If her wedding guests are like me...they are probably waiting until Friday to buy gifts =) I ALWAYS do it last minute.
Also, there are some people that will "freestyle" a gift, regardless of how many registries are available for them to choose from.
Did she have a bridal shower, thats where my registry stuff was purchased, People really didn't buy off of it for the wedding we got mostly cash
We have a registry and our shower is in a week, but no one has bought things. We have gotten a few gifts though that were not bought from places we were registerd. I call it "going rogue" and honestly don't appreciate it as much as if you just bought a gift card.
this happened to me. we had bed bath & beyond & rei.com for our registries. only one person bought stuff off our rei registry. but no problem, we will buy a bunch of the rei stuff anyway! we got mostly money and most couples appreciate that more anyways. (at least we did)
for my shower my bms told everyone i wanted lingerie (which i did) and didn't get much off our registries either.
Hi, bees! I just wanted to update on this post. I had nothing to be concerned about for my friend - she got enough cash to entirely furnish her new (3-bedroom) apartment with her new husband! (Practically enough cash to buy a car!) Just goes to show that different areas and different cultures approach registries very differently (she got married in upstate New York and her husband is Phillipino).
I only got one item off of my registry, the rest was cash! lol Glad she fared so well! She must be esctatic!
We had some people who bought off of the registry, but the majority of people gave us money or gift cards to the store we were registered at. We also received a lot of our registry items as shower gifts.
I am not expecting to get many gifts off our registry either - in our culture it's customary to give monetary gifts - but it was still fun to make up a registry! Plus we get the completion discount!
I would say that with the exception of immediate family members, we got mostly cash from people. Before our wedding, very few things were purchased from our registry. Most people placed envelopes in our card basket the day of the wedding.
Wait, i'm confused.. i was kind of under the impression (based on what my family has always done) that you have a bridal shower (or just a co-ed shower?) in which you register for stuff... you get those gifts at the shower, then when you get married.. you generall geta monetary gift or a donation towards your honey moon, fund, etc.
What other options are there?
Aimeegirl - we registered for our wedding; I'm not having a shower. So everything that's been bought from our registries is for our wedding itself. And a lot of brides I know have registered so that people will buy from their registries for both their shower(s) and the wedding. For example, you wouldn't register for 12 place settings of china and flatware for just a shower - that would be for the wedding itself.
Ooooh... really.. wow, i better think this over.. lol
Thanks!
We were stalking our registry all the way up before the wedding & only had 2 items bought off our Bed Bath & Beyond & 1 item off our Target! We had 63 people coming to the wedding so we were curious what was going to happen.
We did get majority money/check/gift cards; but we also got probably 40% stuff that was NOT on our registry. I think people tend to re-gift or just buy items that they think we need or would like.
We got mostly checks and gift cards as gifts, most of the stuff from the registries came from our parents. So, I wouldn't worry too much about it.
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My friend is getting married THIS Saturday - I'm her MOH. She has two registries that I know of (Pottery Barn and Bed, Bath & Beyond). I'm the only person who has bought anything off her Pottery Barn registry (for her shower) and only a handful of things have been bought off her BB&B registry (like 3 items total). She said she's having 105 people and invited over 150... something's just not adding up to me. What do you all think?