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Originally posted by Ginger
Are some of you girls on the wedding messageboards? (knot, ultimate wedding, wedding channel, etc.?) what are your screennames over there.. it would be neat if we knew we were posting to one another!
I was one of those who argued that registry cards are not evil in a thread like that. We'll probably do them, only because nearly everyone attending, participating, or orchestrating our wedding is coming from out of state... there will be no showers or anything like that for information to spread... the "standard stores" vary greatly from one part of the States to another... and I'd hate to have people randomly calling one another cross-country to see if they know where we're registered. (ie. grandfather in NJ calls my mother in Arizona... she's not home, so they call my brother in Green Bay (who's standing up for us), but I'm sure even if I told him, he wouldn't have a clue!... and that's just family!)
If anyone is that offended by it, well, they don't have to buy us a gift or come if they don't want to. All a registry card is is a time-saving device to be used if someone wants to buy you a gift, not a statement saying You Must buy me a gift, and it MUST be from one of these three stores.
But, as with everything else, everyone has their own opinion, and if there are two things we've learned on GC... someone will always be offended by something, and you'll never change anyone's mind 
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Since all of my family and my FI's family is within a 90 mile radius of the wedding, there's no need for registry cards. I can see how it would be different when everyone is SO spread out.
It also has to do with your area of the country. Down here, its either an open bar or none at all. People would be very offended to get a registry card in an invitation. That's the south for ya'
I post some on ultimatewedding, but not a lot. I'm on the New Orleans board for TheKnot. WeddingChannel is absurdly slow for me, so I end up skipping it a lot.
I'm in wedding overload mode right now...why I keep checking the boards, I have no frickin' clue!
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