"wrong" registry items?

Calypso1977 · July 2012

has this already been discussed? if so, my apologies!

http://shopping.yahoo.com/news/10-wedding-gifts-you-re-not-registering-for-but-should.html

im surprised tehy promote honeymoon registries, btu more surprised that they promote registering for actual wedding expenses.

midgetthemighty · July 2012

If couples are going to make the guests flinch anyway, they may as well get some freebies out of it.

For couples willing to press the issue and test guests' comfort levels, Naylor suggests asking them to chip in and cover wedding costs as a gift. Couples can announce on their personal wedding Web site's registry page that they welcome gift cards to their photographer, videographer, floral designer and beauty salon. Whether this gambit actually works and reduces the cost of the wedding by any degree is in question, but you don't get an open bar tab covered without trying.

"These gift cards can cut down your wedding expenses and allow you to get those extra things you wanted added on to your order down the road," Naylor says. "Guests don't have to get you these -- so you don't have to worry about anyone being offended -- they're just there with your traditional gift lists."

WHAT?!?!