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Originally posted by aephi alum
I'm in favor of registries. We picked out china and silver patterns and registered for place settings and some serving pieces. I don't look at it as "asking for gifts" so much as "if you want to give us a gift, here are some things we'd like". We made sure to choose a wide range of items in terms of cost, since we had a number of poor starving grad students among our guests. Each of our guests gave something, and we totally understood when our poor starving grad student friends didn't give much - the important thing is that they were there on our special day.
What I don't like is when a couple includes those little slips of paper in their wedding invitations that say where they're registered. TACKY. A guest should call the couple or their families and ask if they're so inclined.
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I completely agree -
shame on the stores that hand out business cards that announce where you're registered! When I got married, I included gifts from $5 to around $200 - mostly on the low end (with the exception of china & silver). I also got a chance to suggest colors, so that I didn't end up with any *shudder*
orange towels or such. Oh, and I'm using the singular since "that man" is out of my life now!