First off, OUR SAVE THE DATES ARE IN!!!! Brittney texted me tonight and told me that the STDs came via UPS today (gosh, that sounds so wrong. i can be super immature sometimes). I think she’s going to drop them off at my office tomorrow, and I can’t WAIT to see them. I am so excited I ALMOST have considered hand writing the envelopes…
but then smacked myself around a bit and realized that I would be CRAZY to hand write every. single. address. Back to reality, Steph…
Anyway, I’m super excited. But you know what this means??? We have to start our registry.
I’ve been told that many guests like to know where you’re registered right away. We will have our wedding website on the STD so it’s important that we have that info up by the time they get our STD cards. That being said, it’s time to start our registry.
I don’t even know where to start! We know we want to register at Dillards, Bed Bath and Beyond, and Kohls. We heard Target doesn’t have a very good return policy, so we decided to skip it, even though I really like some of the decor stuff Target has. We also decided that since Mathew doesn’t work until noon on Saturday, we’ll be able to do a registry for one store that morning (we’re thinking we’ll hit BBB first). We’re going to try to get them all done as soon as we can.
All in all, I’m nervous about the registry because I don’t know what we need/want. We need EVERYTHING for a new place. I just feel like it’s SO many decisions all at once! I’m sure it’ll all be fine, but still!
PS Can anyone guess the ONE item I seriously want from that picture above?! (and in that exact color too!)
Ooo the kitchen aid stand mixer!! Great idea! We had fun a lot of fun registering and tried not to overthink it- we figured we could just return or exchange whatever.
you got it amanda! ugh i want a kitchen aid stand mixer in ice blue SOOOOO badly! i love to bake so it’d be put to a lot of use. i don’t mind the registering part, per se, but moreso like what we’re supposed to be getting. i’ve looked at some lists through the stores though, and they all pretty much look the same.
We registered at BB&B, Target & Macys! 🙂 That has been one of the best parts so far!! We had a blast registering! I agree with you though on your post below, the guest list has been my most difficult challenge! My family knows everyone and there isn’t enough room for our entire city lol… it sucks eliminating people!
OMG! KitchenAid! I think ALL domestic brides should get a KitchenAid! g’luck, I hope the registry fairy is good to you!
I think the mister and I will register at William Sonoma, BBB, and Macy’s (each offer registry incentives). BTW -my SIL also told me that the return policy @ Target isn’t the best: if a gift didn’t come with a gift receipt and you want to return it, you get the LOWEST price it was ever offered at, even if it was one day special, or on clearance at another store.
We resgistered at Target and didn’t have any issues at all, but everyone included the gift receipt for purchases. I think we got lucky!
I have that mixer in white and I LOVE it! It is so handy for making everything 🙂 Registering was one of the toughest things for me to do. I think it was probably because we had already moved into our house and had so much of what we needed. Just be forewarned it takes more time then you think 🙂 Also I went back a second time because I was a bit overwhlemed by the process!
It’s the mixer isn’t it??? Everyone loves the mixers haha
Ooh, we got one of those mixers! They are awesome!!
Registering is so fun!! If you need a 4th another option this one is great! http://www.brides.com/myregistry I found out about it after we registered! Because now there are a lot of little stores I wish we could add to ours!!
I totally giggled at STD’s too so no worries there, hee hee. We basically put anything we could think of on our registry – we only registered one place though to make it easy on everyone since our wedding was planned pretty shortly. We had such a fun time going through the store “shooting” things with the gun though! haha 🙂
Good luck to you!!! Here’s my advice for you… don’t get discouraged if the store doesn’t have everything you think you want. Once you go back home, do some online shopping and it will be much easier to complete your registry there!
ALSO, start with your dishes… that’s the hardest part and other than the appliances, the rest of the kitchen will TOTALLY come together once you pick the dishes.
TWO MORE THINGS…
1. Be prepared to have to replace things on your registry as they get discontinued (i.e. check your registry online every once in a while to see what has changed)
2. Remember that you can take ANYTHING back so don’t stress too much trying to figure out if everything you register for will fit or if you’ll still want it after the wedding… you can ALWAYS take things back and get different things!!!
Let me guess you want the stand up mixer! haha I want it too!