Dear Knotties,
I'm struggling with setting up our registry and hope to get some help from you.
We moved back with FI from overseas, and right now living with his parents temporarily. Until we get some things sorted, it's going to stay like this for a few more months at least.
Our wedding though is in October, 2011...
Our problems are the following with registry items:
1. We have a limited storage space. And also have already plenty of items stored for future use.
2. Even if we solve the 1st, the items stored can be broken or humidity can damage them
3. On some items the guarantee expires by the time we start using them
4. I understand it's rude to ask for cash, gift cards etc. However, from practical and financial reasons both this is what we could use. Therefore I plan to set up a very small registry (10-20 items tops) and also add a "house fund" on our wedding website. And politely spread the word about our preference (I did not put anything about this on the invitation, of course)
5. The number of the guests is going to be above 100, so I'm afraid this limited number of registry items won't be enough and due to guests' proactivity we end up with unwanted glass sets and microvawe ovens.
I would like to somehow solve this problem in a non-tacky, polite way, but we also do not want to register for things "just to be registered for something".
Any ideas, experience, advice?
Thanks a lot!