This week has been interesting, as well as a little stressful in terms of wedding registries! We went in to Bed, Bath, & Beyond on Tuesday to put together our registry. I thought this process would just take a couple hours and then we'd be done! Good to go, right? Yeah... I think I underestimated the process.
According to BB&B, you should have 3x as many items on your registry as number of invitations so that there are ample gifts available for showers and the wedding. Well, let's just say we are inviting a lot of family, etc. so our invitation number is high. So basically we needed to register for upwards of 600 items! Seems like an overwhelming number to me...
Overall though, we had a good time registering and picking out things we'd like to put in our home. Picking colors, kitchen utensils, and other things really made the wedding seem more tangible and real. We finished scanning for the kitchen and bedroom on Tuesday, but after a couple of hours, my eyes started to cross and we had to leave and regroup! We went back on Wednesday and finished up bathroom, storage, and other misc. things. I definitely feel accomplished now that this is checked off of my "to-do" list!
A question I do have though is if it's common for couples to only register at one place? We're planning on also setting up a registry (with fewer items) at Walmart to make things easier for our friends and family in smaller towns without access to BB&B - but I just wondered if people usually made it a point to register at more than one place for convenience!
Any tips or tricks that you've got for me about registries would be greatly appreciated! Are there any things that you forgot or didn't include that you wish you had scanned? Or pointless things you got (and kept) but never use??
XXO
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