Honeymoon Registry

[honeychile]

Originally Posted by JennRN

No, no, this isn't in lieu of a traditional registry-this is in addition to the 4 places they've registered for standard house stuff.

Originally Posted by KSUViolet06

See also: the home down payment registry.

No.

Tacky to the 1,000th power.

[and here comes the rant]
We've created a society where the better friends of the couple don't say, "Hester & Oliver really don't need much in the way of household gifts, since they've both been divorced six times and have bee living together for 16 years. I do think that they would love something towards a much-needed honeymoon, though." Instead, Hester & Oliver feel free to register at 20 stores/places, one of which is NOT a place to celebrate a union, so much as help pay for a spring break - and each place provides them with tacky little cards to discreetly (?!) tuck in the wedding and/or shower invitations.

If someone doesn't know where to buy something for Hester & Oliver, they should consider a monetary gift or call whomever is their connection to the couple.

I was stuck going to a bridal shower for someone I didn't even know (long story), but I did buy a card & a restaurant card. Everyone has to eat at some point.

[/rant]

[aephi alum]

Oh for crying out loud.

The whole idea of giving wedding gifts came from the notion that a bride and a groom - neither of whom had been married before or had lived on their own for long if at all - needed certain basic things to set up their new home: sheets, towels, pots and pans, dishes, silverware, glassware, etc.

In this day and age, that's kind of old-fashioned. Many people (a) live on their own for years before moving in with a partner, (b) live together before getting married, (c) are getting married for the second/third/fifth/sixteenth time - and therefore already have more than enough sheets, towels, pots and pans, etc. and don't need yet another toaster.

But, in my mind, the idea still stands that you give the couple something they can use long-term. This might be a more unusual appliance like a slow cooker, a hand-crafted item like hand-knitted pot holders or embroidered napkins, or even a check or gift card if imagination fails.

A massage lasts an hour. A marriage lasts (or should last) a lifetime.