Registry for Wedding Gifts
After you've shared the news of your engagement, start planning your wedding gift registries. With bridal showers, engagement luncheons and other wedding-related gift-giving occasions ready to fill your calendar, it's important to guide your guests with a wedding registry or two. These detailed lists of goodies for your new home keep guests in tune with your style and preferences while reducing chances for duplicate gifts.
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Do Your Homework
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Before heading to the store or booting up the computer to complete an online registry, take measurements around your home. You can't register for new curtains without knowing the dimensions of your windows. It's difficult to decide on new area rugs when you don't know how much area you have to cover. Also, discuss any color scheme or patterns you hope to incorporate in your home before adding items to the wedding registry. You don't want to end up with a mixture of his and hers themes for the same room by accident.
Set Up Multiple Registries
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Although your favorite local boutique may offer a wedding registry, relatives who live at a distance can't shop there. Set up wedding gift registries at large chain retailers that also offer web-based ordering to accommodate a large number of your guests. If your wedding adventure includes several showers and luncheons, remember to refill the registries as your wedding date approaches. You don't want the prewedding festivities to make your registry look picked over.
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A Range of Gifts
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While wandering through the aisles of your favorite store, remember to aim the wedding registry scanner at a variety of gift items. Choose things at varying price points --- from as little as $10 to several hundred dollars --- to give your guests options. If co-workers decide to create a gift basket with several low cost items or your uncle wants to splurge on new electronics for your living room, they will have a variety of registry items to choose form.
After the Wedding
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Look at your wedding registries after the wedding. Update any quantities, delete purchased items from the registry that didn't get deducted from the registry and add new items. Guests often purchase and send gifts to the newlyweds for up to a year after the wedding. You want last-minute shoppers to have plenty to choose from. Shortly after the wedding, many large retailers will send the newlyweds a coupon for a percentage off items they want to purchase from their own registry.
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