Displaying Actual Gifts on Registry on Wedding Website

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My fiance and I have our wedding website on TK (for better or worse).

On the registry page you can link to your registries and it also gives the option of displaying actual gifts from the registry on the page- complete with a "buy now" type of button.

Too tacky / gift grabby?

Weigh in Knotties; I value your insight!

Blue_Bird

Edited for gif emphasis.

Do you have to actually click on "registry" before you see the pictures and "Buy Now"? If so, I guess it's not that bad.

AddieCake

What's the point? They can see them when they click the registry link.

mlg78

Is this something new? When I had my site on TK it linked our registries but there wasn't a buy button... Linking is fine, I think...a buy now button goes into the tacky category.

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mlg78 said:

Is this something new? When I had my site on TK it linked our registries but there wasn't a buy button... Linking is fine, I think...a buy now button goes into the tacky category.

I don't know how new it is. I just set up my links on the site earlier this week and it was auto set-up to display gifts on the page. I disabled that feature because it was sitting weirdly with me but I wanted to see if anyone saw a convenience in that for our guests before making a final decision on whether to keep it off.

Seems like most people also feel it's tacky.

ETF: typos.

jacques27

Tacky and gift-grabby.  It's one thing to give people the option of going to your wedding website and giving them the option to click through to your registry - it's a whole nother tacky ball of wax to just blatantly put on the site "BUY THIS FOR ME!"  Gifts are optional in the first place, I feel like putting a button like that puts too much emphasis on the gift and makes the couple look gift grabby.

Also, how does it choose what to display?  Just randomly rotate through them?  If you have a varied price range and it chooses to display the $350 mixer instead of the $50 towel set, I think I would either a) get the impression that you may have specifically chosen to display that product and are therefore pushy and gift-grabby, or b) be too afraid to click through the registry for fear that you've picked all higher ticket items out of my price range and just go and do my own off-registry gift.

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Blue_Bird said:

Edited for gif emphasis.

Do you have to actually click on "registry" before you see the pictures and "Buy Now"? If so, I guess it's not that bad.

"Registries" is a menu option. When clicked it takes you to a new page with an icon for BBB and Crate & Barrel (our registries).

If you elect to have the item list displayed, below the registry icons, it displays two rows of photos (one row per registry it seems) of things from your lists. Each photo has a "buy now" button displayed too.

I think it wouldn't have bothered me so much if the "buy now" buttons weren't there.

STARMOON44

In my experience that feature doesn't even work well. I often find it makes couples' pages crash or take forever to load.

levioosa

I think it's on the tacky side.  

marie2785

Tacky, but on the grand list of etiquette blunders, its probably on the low impact side. As a guest, I'd probably just assume it was part of the mandatory website formatting and not your fault. Free websites rely on advertising, so I'd assume it was something along those lines. If given the option, its probably good to avoid it though.