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Hi!  I'm curious too...we got engaged in February and are getting married Sept 2011.  We are going to register the end of September before we send the save the dates which will have our wedding site on it.  I have had friends who have registered a week or two after they got engaged.  I thought that was a llittle tasteless..especially to announce it on facebook.  It's like "Look we're engaged and this is what we want you to buy us!"  I guess I understand if it was a short engagement but msot of my friends arent until summer 2011.  People were asking me where we were registered for our engagement party but I didnt want to register that soon.

That's a tough question to answer!  Only you can decide what's best for you because there are pros and cons!  On the one hand, you don't want to register too early because, the farther our from your wedding you register, the more likely you will run into items being discontinued/out of stock.  However, the sooner you register, people will be able to purchase from your registry if they like.  Christmas is coming up.  Some women like to receive registry stuff for Christmas but some would rather not.  It's such a personal preference.  It should definitley be done before any showers are announced.

We registered in June, for our Oct wedding, and have ran into a few items being discountinued. Just in our experience, I would register closer to when your shower invites are being sent out. On our website we just put registry information 'coming soon', and then updated it once we did it.

I think anytime you are comfortable with registering is good

I agree with @Mrs.KMM: . We ended but having to redo our registries several times. A lot of bathroom accessories that I had my heart set on got discontinued, and it was dissappointing. I think a month or two before your first shower if you are having any is plenty of time.