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Interesting Wedding Registry Items
With all the talk about crazy weddings and wedding dates, I thought I'd start a thread about interesting/crazy/ridiculous things you have seen on couple's wedding registeries.
Over the weekend I saw a friend's sister's wedding registery and she had registered for Brita Pitcher Replacement Filters and Tide Sticks. I don't know if I was the only one who thought that was odd but if you can buy the item from your grocery store I dont think it warrants a place on your wedding registry. I also knew a girl in college that registered for (among other things) a fire extinguisher, his and her golf tshirts and cotton underwear from Wal-Mart. |
Glue stick (just the sticks, not the gun), anvil lopper, and a plastic saw horse.
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I've noticed that both wedding and baby registries are getting much more practical in the past few years. I've seen the tool boxes & fire extinguishers, gardening supplies, first aid kits & seriously ugly everyday dishes. I find myself buying more gift cards with a smaller gift, instead of the nicer gifts I used to give.
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I went to a wedding of a former co-worker a few years ago. I was entertained that her husband had hopes that we'd all be stocking their bar with the beer and hard alcohol. I also thought it was funny that they registered for items that were clearly for their little daugter daughter - kids sleeping bag, couple dolls, and I think Candy Land.
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The boy went to a co-worker's wedding a few weeks ago, and their registry included RECYCLING BINS (the blue ones!), and a turkey deep-fryer. There were some other things, but those two took the cake.
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I was shopping for a cousin's wedding, and they had a bunch of little stuff on there...wooden spoons, a bottle opener, a cheese grater, etc...so I got a laundry basket and filled it up with all of their little stuff. It worked pretty well.
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a pool table. i mean, i would have rather gave them cash!
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I put a few little items on our registry but just the ones that had pink on the handle hehe. Since I've been living on my own for a few years now I don't need as much for the kitchen. |
Slightly OT - baby shower, not wedding
When I hear that a friend or family member is pregnant, I start buying a few little baby basics everytime I go to the store - booties, baby Tylenol, Boudreaux's Butt Paste, Hyland's remedies,the bath stuff, cute little shoes, blankets, baby spoons, etc.- especially stuff that has worked for me and the mom-to-be might not know about - and when I go to the shower I get a super big gift bag and put all the necessities in, topping with a pack of newborn diapers and a cute stuffed animal. It's always well-received.
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I have seen some stuff that would be considered weird, but I figure people should ask for things they can really use, instead of leaving it in the basement for 10 years and then giving it to GoodWill.
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I also do the same for wedding shower gifts- buy a bunch of the little things (like serving pieces) and put them in a nice wicker basket. As for odd items on the registry- 24 glass salad plates. The salad plates didn't match any other china they registered for- and being the obnoxious friend that I am, I felt the need to buy them some of these plates. (they did not register for 24 forks, so I wonder how everyone was supposed to eat off these plates). |
A mf-ing TOILET.
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Fat Percentage Scale. I would have bought it but it was an in store only purchase and shipping it to where they were moving to would have been a pain.
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A nose hair trimmer is probably the weirdest thing I have seen on a wedding registry.
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I don't know what was wrong with their original white porcelain toilet, or why they would think it appropriate to ask their wedding guests to furnish their bathrom remodel, or why they would put a TOILET on their wedding registry. I have to chalk it up to a complete and utter lack of class. |
did anyone get it for them?
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The only thing I can think of is that perhaps at Lowes, like at other stores, you get a discount on un-purchased registry items after the wedding. Maybe they weren't actually expecting anyone to buy it?
Or I'm just giving them the benefit of the doubt... |
I think alot of the strange items on registries come now, not from crassness, but from running amuck in the store with the little hand held scanner they give you. When you had to WRITE in your handwriting what you wanted, I think you thought about it a bit more, just zipping a little red beam over a UPC code takes all the thought out of it.
With a bazillion registries now, for weddings, babies, birthdays, christmas, etc etc etc, it is just too easy and too impersonal. |
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I've seen it done.
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I can't think of any other time that it would be appropriate to register for a birthday than if you have 800 people coming and you've spent $500,000 on the party/guests. |
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birthdays? nah. kinda conceited. christmas? hell to the naw! the only thing i think is ok to tell people is size/color preferences. |
I like registering kids for their birthdays and Christmas- so family from far away can get a gift that isn't a duplicate. But once you hit, oh, 10 - nope!
When my eldest daughter was four, we went into Toys R Us to register for Christmas. She started to throw a fit - lying down on the floor and wailing fit - yelling "I don't need any more toys! I have enough!". Parents were stunned. I was stunned. (Shhh . . .she's still my favorite child) |
We registered for a bottle of good tequila knowing at least one of the husband's friends from work would find it entertaining and buy it. Otherwise everything else was your regular dishes/linens/household needs stuff.
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I have seen it done so many times now, I gave up counting...it boggles the mind. It is "let's play with the scanner at *insertwhateverstoreyouareinatthetime* and see what we can get" type mentality. It is all about making it easier for the store to rake in the money on *insertwhatevereventyouaregivingagiftfor* event in a person's life. |
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You're absolutely right about that. I remember having to literally pull the scanner out of my fiance's hands at Williams-Sonoma when he started registering for stuff like $9 bottles of chocolate syrup, cans of demi-glace, candy, star-shaped pancake molds, stupid stuff like that. He was so sad when I recalled his scanner privileges; he was just having fun and getting carried away. Men don't really understand that sort of thing. In the interest of fairness, maybe I have to nominate my fiance and myself for stupid registry items ;) |
It seems to me that, as more young adults are living on their own prior to marriage (or even living together and/or purchasing houses), perhaps we will see more and more odd items on their registries because they already have the "basic" dishes, flatware, small appliances, towels, etc, they end up registering for more frivolous things? I admit, the toilet is the weirdest thing.
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I had a former student who told me he and his intended were not going to register because they didn't need anything. I told him if he didn't he was gonna end up with a bunch of vases and picture frames, and suggested he register for nice towels and linens. He did, and was very happy - they may be starting out in a tiny grad-student apt., but they have comfy sheets and thick towels!
I was brought up to give practical, everyday stuff for the shower, and nicer (china, silver, something special) for the wedding itself. One of my sorority sisters married later, and had her grandmother's china, so they just registered for a Christmas china pattern. I thought that was neat. |
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Oh, and if I had seen a toilet on the gift registry, I think I would have tried to pool money with a few other people and buy it (and put it on the gift table front and center!) |
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Worst was a folded piece of paper in the invitation that said we already have everything, so instead of presents please give us money so we can buy a house. Asking for money is tacky.
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I think registries are a necessary evil, and with so many couples co-habitating prior to marriage or getting married after their have already been out on their own, they either have to register for luxury items or simply upgrade their current everyday items.
I enjoy gift giving, and especially giving something to someone that I know they want, so a registry can be helpful. That being said, I am loathe to buy a breast pump for a baby shower or an odd serving dish that is part of a 5-piece set I can't afford. So I just send gift cards. I figure that when they go to close the registry, most places give you an additional 10% or so off on your purchases, so this is helping add to their fund to buy that $500 knife block or the super-deluxe baby bassinet they've been dreaming of. Plus, I am an amateur photog, so if I attend a wedding or shower, I follow-up with a CD of the gazillion photos I took at the event... that's always appreciated :) |
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