I'm a second-time bride, and my fiance has been married before as well.
Our wedding is going to be small and intimate, and we were not planning to register. We're in our 30s, we already have most of the household stuff we need, and really, we just want to celebrate with our friends and family, we're not interested in gifts (and of course, some of our guests would've bought gifts for our previous weddings, so we'd feel particularly bad about that!).
A few people have started asking about where we're registered, and I've told them basically what I wrote above. Some have tried to convince us to register, others have just said "ok," and dropped it.
But now I'm concerned that people are going to interpret our lack of registry as meaning we want cash. Which we don't. We really aren't expecting gifts at all.
How can I convince people? I don't want anyone to feel "obligated" to give us cash because we didn't register, but I also don't want to register, because I think that implies we're expecting gifts when we're not!
I'm just going to go bang my head against this wall over here . . .