Simply Splendid Gift Baskets Blog

Registering for your wedding gifts is a wonderful way to let your wedding guests know what you, as the bride and groom, would like to receive as a wedding gift.The concept is to zero in one store or at the most 2-3 stores, creating a registry, choose the items from their availability list and notifying the same to your wedding guests. It is a way to avoid duplication of gifts, and in fact honoring the gift and the gifting guest, as well.Your friends and relatives may want to buy a gift as soon as you pronounce about your marriage. Therefore, once you pronounce your wedding date, it’d be ideal to go and register, at least for some of the items.If you plan to hold an engagement dinner or a shower it is better to register a month in advance. Do not be under the impression to make your entire choices at a time; you can take time to go back and add/delete or edit your list in the registry at any time.There are multiple stores available where you can do your registry for wedding gifts, however, chose one that offers a broad range of gifting ideas for your guests. It is not a bad idea to register at any one of the major departmental stores and also at one or two specialty stores.Bear in your mind that one, two or three stores is what your wedding guests can maximum remember, if you add more stores you are also adding difficulty to your guests.Additionally, make a note of policies of each of these stores regarding exchange of gifts purchased through the registry.Registering date is also very important. Register six months in advance of your wedding date and this gives your guests a generous amount of time to purchase gifts for even the pre-wedding events such as bridal shower or a rehearsal dinner etc. Don’t be over curious to register well in advance of 6 months. There is a risk here that some stores would be discontinuing some items.It is always a good idea to add as many items as possible while registering for your wedding gifts. You may give a guest a range of gifts to choose from and remember wedding is an occasion where you have a chance to get everything you wanted. So never put a limit!You can do registering for all those essential items you plan to buy in the nearest future. Many of the registries have broad range of items a home should have. These include home appliances, bags and luggage, furniture, furnishings informal bone china articles, etc. Select from a broad range of prices and they should be wallet friendly to your wedding guests.It is against etiquette to announce the registry to your wedding guests. However, see that they know that you have registered by word-of-mouth publicity.

Hello! I am getting married in October 2009, but we’ve been invited to four weddings in the past year and a half, so I’ve spent a lot of time looking at my own registries as well as other ladies! I think you are totally on the right track. If you have a variety of items in a medium price range you are good. I think it’s a good idea to have a few $300 items on there – people may not want to spend $300 on you, BUT it may encourage people to get you gift certificates to put toward your large registry items. If they know you want those things – they can contribute what they feel comfortable contributing.

The only thing I would suggest is this: be mindful not only of the price, but what the actual item is. Make sure the item is something someone would want to get you as a wedding gift. For example, my fiance and I were invited to a wedding in DC. We couldn’t attend, but wanted to send a nice gift. The bride was registered at Tiffany, Neiman Marcus, and Williams Sonoma. No truly affordable options there, as you can imagine. The least expensive item on any of her registries was $110. Not a bad amount to spend for a gift when you can’t attend the wedding. But, it was A SPOON. A SINGLE SILVER SPOON. There is no way that I could send someone a single spoon as a wedding gift. We ended up getting her a Tiffany gift card so that she could spend it how she wanted. I felt better about that than her opening this tiny spoon from us!

I don’t think it’s necessary to register for $2-$15 items. If that’s all someone can spend, they can always get you a gift card, money, or something not on your registry. I think your price ranges are fine.