FI and I have decided that we don't want gifts. There are many reasons behind this but the main reasons are that we are already asking people to come to Jamaica and that is more than enough of a gift. Plus we have lived together for several years and we live in Brooklyn, so we really don't have the space for anything.
I know that it's been discussed before and people have said that even if you don't want to gifts, you should just register. But, I don't want people to feel obligated to buy gifts (even if we say, we don't want gifts and include links to registries, I feel like people will think that we are just saying we don't want gifts but we really do because we've provided these links).
What are your thoughts? Are you guys registering, and why? Do you think we should register? And any ideas on how to communicate that?
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Re: Let's talk about gift registries...
I work for a large retail company in our corporate HQ, and as a part of my job (long story short), I set up a registry of about five items as a test with a different name/date/etc, but it was still linked to my email address. So some people found it. And we heard some really honest (negative) opinions about it since we told everyone we didn't want gifts. Once I explained, people completely got it though.
We did end up geting two actual gifts, but we both thought they were so thoughtful and lovely. I totally get the registry thing in general, but as a way to make sure people don't get you something you don't want seems really bizarre to me. It's not like we register for our birthdays or Christmas, and the people who want to get us gifts always manage to do a good job without a list. : )
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