[PeppyGPhiB]

Honeymoon, Mortgage, "Wishing Well" registries are all tacky for the same reason - they're registries for cash!

A Honeymoon Registry may offer people the chance to buy a massage, tour, sunset sail, etc., but that's really not what's going on. On a honeymoon registry, you just list some of the activities you want to do on your honeymoon and the approximate dollar amount next to it - people "buy" it for you, but really their money is just getting put into an account you set up with the company running the registry. In the end all the couple has is a bucket o' cash. So, in other words, they registered for money, which is horrible. What makes it worse is that the honeymoon registry companies charge a fee for each transaction/purchase, so some of the money that your guests think is going to you is actually going to the registry company.

The Knot is full of questions about honeymoon and other cash registries fronting as something they're not. It's stupid because people don't have to be told that cash is a welcome gift...it always is. But no one with any manners would ever TELL anyone they want cash.