So, we set up wedding registries at Amazon, Target, and Bed Bath & Beyond. The majority of our registry items were at Amazon & Target. My mom & MOH are throwing me a shower and sent out invites last week. They only included the registry info for BB&B in the invites. The reason: BB&B printed registry cards for her at the store. She would have had to order them online or print them herself for Target or Amazon. I had even told them all the places we were registered and even provided registry numbers and links to online registries! Really? How hard is it to write "Bride and Groom are registered at Amazon.com, Target, and Bed Bath & Beyond" on a slip of paper to include in the invite?
So, now my dilemma is do we try to find items from BB&B to replace the items we registered for at the other places, since that is likely where all our gifts will come from? We can't do that for everything because BB&B doesn't carry everything and some items we prefer the option at other store. Or do we just assume that people may check other stores on their own and find the registries? Currently it looks like there will be about 40-50 people at shower. We currently only have 14 items on our BB&B registry. We do have all our registry info also on our wedding website, so some people may think to find it there, but we've found that not many people think to check our website for anything and most forget we even have it, so I'm not really counting on that. The other option is to just leave it be, maybe people will find other registries, maybe they won't. If not, maybe they will give gift cards or cash instead, which we are hoping for anyway since shower is being held in my home town, 2,000 miles away from where I currently live, so I'll have to figure out how to get any gifts back home.
I think I'm just kind of frustrated thinking we wasted our time making the registries if they aren't even telling people where we registered. We really didn't have many items on any of them and actually struggled to figure out what to include on them (mostly upgrades of current items we have/use). And, it seems rude to tell people we have only 1 registry, which includes 1/3 number of items as shower guests, and most of the items are under $20 with a few items over $100 (we had much better cost variation on other registries). I don't want people to think that we were unreasonable with our registry or make things difficult for them.