Brides Please Read: BEWARE of TARGET stores REGISTRY!!!

Ladyphoenixnh · August 2012

Hello fellow brides;

I just want everyone to know what happened to me at Target with my Target wedding Registry so you don't have to go through the same hell. Beware: Target WILL NOT let you return items after 90 days, no matter what they say in ads about "easy returns." Help yourself and do not use Target for your wedding registry.

I got married a few months back and immediately after came the usual, Honeymoon, buying a house, getting a dog, trying to get pregnant, etc. We thought it was wise to not unpack our new wedding dinnerware until we got into our new house (why unpack and re-pack?!) and months later we unpack our blue dinnerware in our new red kitchen. So, the question became "paint or exchange the dinnerware?" Since we had a Registry at Target and are not made of money we decided to simply exchange the plates for new plates of a more appropriate color. We brought the dinnerware back to Target IN THE BOX (now I'm not talking about in the package, I'm talking about in the cardboard shipping box that says "TARGET.com" PO#, TC-ITEM# etc. as many people had purchased online and shipped.) Not only that, but I have a COPY OF MY REGISTRY that says that those items were purchased.

NEW UNOPENED ITEM + PROOF OF PURCHSE = EXCHANGE?

NOT AT TARGET.

I feel like we would have better been served with a Registry at Wallmart!!! They don't stock the items anymore, and won't take them back for even an exchange because the turnaround rate for their items is 90 days. 90DAYS!!!! Hardly enough time to get the Thank You cards out, get back from your Honeymoon, let alone buy a house and get settled in.
I called Guest Relations, Gift Registry Services, etc. etc. etc. and tried to speak to people higher and higher up with no success. And I am NOT one to give up.

So please spread the word:
TARGET is NOT FRIENDLY to BRIDES.

Sarah Lavoie

hoffse · August 2012

Ok honestly, plenty of people have trouble with Target registries, but honestly 90 days is plenty of time. That's pretty standard.

It should NOT take you 3 months to unpack and write thank you notes. Thank yous should go out as gifts come in, not all at once after the honeymoon. Sorry, but I feel like you are largely to blame for this. Target has separate problems, but a 90-day return policy is not one of them.

sparkles776 · August 2012

I actually completely agree with the PP, a 90 day return policy is not a Target problem, it is their return policy and something you should have been aware of before you chose to register there. Their return policy also doesnt affect just brides, it affects everyone and every return.

amymaysa · August 2012

That sucks and there are a number of people who have had issues with Target, that being said, I think you have to own some of this b/c you didn't even look at these gifts for over 30 months...I get life goes on, but you should have checked the items to be sure they weren't broken and were want you wanted.

Target shouldn't have to keep their stock up just incase someone might want to change their mind 3+ months afterwards

Ladyphoenixnh · August 2012

[QUOTE]Ok honestly, plenty of people have trouble with Target registries, but honestly 90 days is plenty of time. That's pretty standard. It should NOT take you 3 months to unpack and write thank you notes. Thank yous should go out as gifts come in, not all at once after the honeymoon. Sorry, but I feel like you are largely to blame for this. Target has separate problems, but a 90-day return policy is not one of them.
Posted by hoffse[/QUOTE]

All I can say to you is this: Clearly you are pre-wedding, not post-wedding. If you are both a working couple trying to start your life aftera wedding, 90 days will feel like 48 hours. Don't speak about things you don't know about.

Ladyphoenixnh · August 2012

Make of this what you will, Brides-to-be, but any store that will not take back their OWN UNOPENED PRODUCT with PROOF OF PURCHASE is a store that is only out to take your money.

Their rationale is that their stock rotates every 30-90 days, Imagine simply trying to buy MORE of the same product (Oops, my dog broke a serving plate, I need a new one) but you can't get it because they stopped selling it 30 days after you bought it...

This is corporate America, people, it's disheartening to know that so many of you agree with a large-corporation mentality that has only been around for about 15 years. Maybe it's that I'm an older bride who saw what things were like before huge non-American-made massive product mills like Target were open, but with age comes wisdom. I have been through this, and it's great and exciting to walk into a store and use the little gun to mark all the items you want with abandon, knowing you will not have to pay for them and they can be yours! Then you pick out bedsheets and curtains and plates and everything color-coordinated to match the vision of your dream-home that you've had in your head "ever since you were a little girl".

It takes FAR MORE than 90 days to get through the Mortgage/House buying process, and that's after you've found the perfect house. Buying a house after you get married is not that unrealistic, people, and unless Daddy handed you a house beforehand, you are NOT going to know beforehand what is actually going to work with your house once you get in it. The Registry is simple consumerism for the sake of consumerism and it feeds off the dreams of people like us who are all starry-eyed about the white-picket-fence process.

Shower curtain? I now have a glassed-in-shower. Totally useless. If you take nothing else from this post then remember this: BEWARE of the Registry process; ask people to give you gift cards or money; it will serve you much better.

Summer2011Bride · August 2012

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_registering-gifts_brides-please-read-beware-of-target-stores-registry?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding%20BoardsForum:34Discussion:f39e0bf4-68fd-4265-956a-82f942eda1e1Post:6e4dd9d5-9ca7-4252-b984-f32fe42a5db2">Re: Brides Please Read: BEWARE of TARGET stores REGISTRY!!!</a>:
[QUOTE]All I can say to you is this: Clearly you are pre-wedding, not post-wedding. If you are both a working couple trying to start your life aftera wedding, 90 days will feel like 48 hours. Don't speak about things you don't know about.
Posted by Ladyphoenixnh[/QUOTE]

I don't know about the poster you quoted, but I'm post-wedding, so does that mean you'll take me seriously? By the way, I think your above comment was rude and uncalled for.

I registered at Target for my wedding last summer and had zero issues. This is a YOU problem, not a Target one. Target may have other registry issues, but 90 day returns is standard, if not generous, for most stores. A lot of stores have a 30 day return policy.

H and I both work full-time and did so during and after our wedding. We still managed to write close to 200 TY notes between the two of us by the end of Aug. (wedding was end of July and 10 days was spent on a HM), plus return/exchange items. Working is not an excuse to not be generous to your guests and hold off on TY notes for months.

ETA: Regarding your next post, we just bought a house and the whole process took about 2 months. Sure, it can take longer, but is that Target's problem that you decided to buy a house after registering and now you don't like the stuff you registered for? Again, no. That is YOUR problem. That was a choice you made to register for your wedding then buy a house after it.

AND it is horribly rude to ask for cash outright.

artbyallie · August 2012

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_registering-gifts_brides-please-read-beware-of-target-stores-registry?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding%20BoardsForum:34Discussion:f39e0bf4-68fd-4265-956a-82f942eda1e1Post:6e4dd9d5-9ca7-4252-b984-f32fe42a5db2">Re: Brides Please Read: BEWARE of TARGET stores REGISTRY!!!</a>:
[QUOTE]All I can say to you is this: Clearly you are pre-wedding, not post-wedding. If you are both a working couple trying to start your life aftera wedding, 90 days will feel like 48 hours. Don't speak about things you don't know about.
Posted by Ladyphoenixnh[/QUOTE]

<div>I'm over a year post-wedding, had a Target Registry, and got my gifts opened in one day (the wedding day, in fact, because we had a lunch reception and opened them at my parent's house before leaving on our honeymoon). The few returns I needed were done within 2 months, and my thank-yous went out also in less than 60 days. </div><div>
</div><div>You're just being nasty and hateful. Target has no responsibility to take back items outside their stated return policy, even unopened and with a receipt. You should have prioritized your errands better. And as for whining about a shower curtain you don't need, did you not register for it? You could give it to someone who could use it or take it to Goodwill.</div><div>
</div><div>And asking for cash or gift cards (same thing, really) would be incredibly rude. People are not stupid and know everyone appreciated cash. But some people (most, in my area) prefer to give boxed gifts.</div>

banana468 · August 2012

I hope you're not saying that 90 days isn't enough time to get out TY notes.    If you don't have them done by that time it's rather inexcusable.

A 90 day return policy is fair.   The issue is that you didn't ask what the return policy was when you went to register there    That's YOUR fault - not the store's fault.

That time to return is more than generous for you as a bride. Again, YOU chose to buy a home immediately after getting married and evidently between that and the act of trying to conceive a child there was no time to come up for air to make a drive to the nearest Target?   Really?   Haven't you two needed to get a few bites to eat in between all that aerobic activity?

I've heard plenty of complaints about the Target registry but your complaints just aren't valid ones.

Believe it or not, the majority of the consumers at Target are NOT brides.   They're the rest of us who watch for stock turnover, snap up items that are out of season in sales and we don't expect everything to stay available all the time.   That's why we love clearance aisles!

Oh and I'm 5 years post-wedding.   I've purchased a house and have a child.   I know first-hand that you could have made the time and just opted not to do so.

banana468 · August 2012

Wait a sec. Is the date in your bio accurate? If so, you've been married for SIX MONTHS.

Please tell me you didn't try to make the returns to Target just this month.

Callie22589 · August 2012

I would have to agree that I think Target's registry is less flexible and not user-friendly when compared to other places(at least in my experience). I didn't know they took their registries down after 90 days, especially when BBB and Belk leave them up for over a year. I wasn't happy about that, but I got over it in about 5 minutes. HOWEVER, I did know about their 90 day return policy going into registering. I didn't like it because the other two places had very different policies, but I kept it in mind when dealing with our Target gifts. BBB lets you return things whenever, especially with a gift reciept. We exchanged dish towels several months after our wedding (changed kitchen colors) with no questions.

While I slightly understand your frustrations, if it's after the return period, it's too late. I knew about it before and you should have too. Doesn't matter how high up you go, it probably won't happen. I would also agree that your post about being pre-wedding was a little rude. I was busy after we got married and it did seem like the first few months few by. We both teach and went back to teaching the Tuesday after we got married. We still accomplished everything we needed to do(go through gifts, return, exchange, etc.) in just a couple of months and we live over an hour away from two of the three places we registered.

Viczaesar · August 2012

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_registering-gifts_brides-please-read-beware-of-target-stores-registry?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding%20BoardsForum:34Discussion:f39e0bf4-68fd-4265-956a-82f942eda1e1Post:e92c6765-7e48-42f4-bf1f-89f7df726d44">Re: Brides Please Read: BEWARE of TARGET stores REGISTRY!!!</a>:
[QUOTE]Make of this what you will, Brides-to-be, but any store that will not take back their OWN UNOPENED PRODUCT with PROOF OF PURCHASE is a store that is only out to take your money. Their rationale is that their stock rotates every 30-90 days, Imagine simply trying to buy MORE of the same product (Oops, my dog broke a serving plate, I need a new one) but you can't get it because they stopped selling it 30 days after you bought it... This is corporate America, people, it's disheartening to know that so many of you agree with a large-corporation mentality that has only been around for about 15 years. Maybe it's that I'm an older bride who saw what things were like before huge non-American-made massive product mills like Target were open, but with age comes wisdom. I have been through this, and it's great and exciting to walk into a store and use the little gun to mark all the items you want with abandon, knowing you will not have to pay for them and they can be yours! Then you pick out bedsheets and curtains and plates and everything color-coordinated to match the vision of your dream-home that you've had in your head "ever since you were a little girl". It takes FAR MORE than 90 days to get through the Mortgage/House buying process, and that's after you've found the perfect house. Buying a house after you get married is not that unrealistic, people, and unless Daddy handed you a house beforehand, you are NOT going to know beforehand what is actually going to work with your house once you get in it. The Registry is simple consumerism for the sake of consumerism and it feeds off the dreams of people like us who are all starry-eyed about the white-picket-fence process. Shower curtain? I now have a glassed-in-shower. Totally useless. If you take nothing else from this post then remember this: BEWARE of the Registry process; ask people to give you gift cards or money; it will serve you much better.
Posted by Ladyphoenixnh[/QUOTE]
I have two words for you: personal responsibility.

Klikina · August 2012

I'm still stuck on the fact that you can't have blue plates in a red kitchen.

Just because you bought a house right after you got married (your choice, not Target's) doesn't mean you couldn't have opened your gifts right away (your choice, not Target's). It's not Target's fault that you didn't read their fine print when you registered, nor is it Target's fault that you changed your mind about what color plates you wanted.

And I say this almost 6 years post-wedding.

shaina925 · August 2012

I had heard that Target was no good... but I did register for 10 things to get my free 25 dollar gift card! I am not telling anyone that I registered there because I do not want anything! I am going to use the 25 dollars toward amenity basket essentials and some candles if there is left over money.

freebread03 · August 2012

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_registering-gifts_brides-please-read-beware-of-target-stores-registry?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding%20BoardsForum:34Discussion:f39e0bf4-68fd-4265-956a-82f942eda1e1Post:e92c6765-7e48-42f4-bf1f-89f7df726d44">Re: Brides Please Read: BEWARE of TARGET stores REGISTRY!!!</a>:
[QUOTE]Make of this what you will, Brides-to-be, but any store that will not take back their OWN UNOPENED PRODUCT with PROOF OF PURCHASE is a store that is only out to take your money. Their rationale is that their stock rotates every 30-90 days, Imagine simply trying to buy MORE of the same product (Oops, my dog broke a serving plate, I need a new one) but you can't get it because they stopped selling it 30 days after you bought it... This is corporate America, people, it's disheartening to know that so many of you agree with a large-corporation mentality that has only been around for about 15 years. Maybe it's that I'm an older bride who saw what things were like before huge non-American-made massive product mills like Target were open, but with age comes wisdom. I have been through this, and it's great and exciting to walk into a store and use the little gun to mark all the items you want with abandon, knowing you will not have to pay for them and they can be yours! Then you pick out bedsheets and curtains and plates and everything color-coordinated to match the vision of your dream-home that you've had in your head "ever since you were a little girl". <strong>It takes FAR MORE than 90 days to get through the Mortgage/House buying process, and that's after you've found the perfect house. </strong>Buying a house after you get married is not that unrealistic, people, and unless Daddy handed you a house beforehand, you are NOT going to know beforehand what is actually going to work with your house once you get in it. The Registry is simple consumerism for the sake of consumerism and it feeds off the dreams of people like us who are all starry-eyed about the white-picket-fence process. Shower curtain? I now have a glassed-in-shower. Totally useless. If you take nothing else from this post then remember this: BEWARE of the Registry process; ask people to give you gift cards or money; it will serve you much better.
Posted by Ladyphoenixnh[/QUOTE]<div>
</div><div>In some cases surely, but we found, put an offer in on, and closed on our condo all within 45 days, so I think you should probably stay away from gross generalizations you know nothing about. Or the "handed to by daddy" reference-many couples own homes before marriage that they saved for and bought on their own.</div><div>
</div><div>I also think that buying dinnerware to match a kitchen is just kind of silly to begin with--what happens when you remodel or move? I agree that a 90 day return policy is kind of annoying, but it's definitely something I'd expect, or certainly not be surprised by. I think your story is a good reminder of why everyone should check their return policies prior to deciding where to register to figure out what works for them.</div><div>
</div>

rlavach · August 2012

Yikes, lots of hostility in here. I am also post-wedding and had no problem with my Target registry. I didn’t have any issues with the website like some had. I had a pretty normal experience. OP, there is no need to get so upset over all of this. Yes, people are busy. But 90 days, even for someone like myself who works 2 jobs, is plenty of time.

Ali092011 · August 2012

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_registering-gifts_brides-please-read-beware-of-target-stores-registry?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding%20BoardsForum:34Discussion:f39e0bf4-68fd-4265-956a-82f942eda1e1Post:c716aebd-861f-4170-ba3c-9a1658f6230a">Re: Brides Please Read: BEWARE of TARGET stores REGISTRY!!!</a>:
[QUOTE]<strong>I'm still stuck on the fact that you can't have blue plates in a red kitchen</strong>. Just because you bought a house right after you got married (your choice, not Target's) doesn't mean you couldn't have opened your gifts right away (your choice, not Target's). It's not Target's fault that you didn't read their fine print when you registered, nor is it Target's fault that you changed your mind about what color plates you wanted. And I say this almost 6 years post-wedding.
Posted by Klikina[/QUOTE]

Me too. :)

Also, didn't you know you registered for blue dishes without having to open them? If you knew you were going to move and you wanted to match, why didn't you just register for something neutral?

mrskristinyc · August 2012

Did you know that you might be purchasing a house/moving when you made the registry? Red and blue don't clash. If you opened the box and all of the dishes were broken and you were unable to return them, I could see being upset, but this is a bit petty.

You just got married. Your friends and family were generous enough to give you lovely gifts. You just purchased a home and are blessed to have two stable incomes in your household. You just got a dog and will hopefully soon have a baby on the way. You have a lot of important, wonderful things going on in your life right now. Is the color of the plates REALLY worth getting this upset over?

beardo1111 · August 2012

1. Blue plates in a red kitchen sounds fine to me.

2. You registered for this stuff....and you got it. Why did you register for blue plates and a shower curtain if you had no idea what kind of pad your were going to end up in??

3. 90 days is completely reasonable for a return policy....as is their rationale of a rotating stock.

Mountain out of a molehill OP.....congrats on your wedding/new home/new family.....try to focus on the big picture.

TheSlowskys · August 2012

In Response to Re:Brides Please Read: BEWARE of TARGET stores REGISTRY!!!:[QUOTE]Ok honestly, plenty of people have trouble with Target registries, but honestly 90 days is plenty of time. nbsp;That's pretty standard.It should NOT take you 3 months to unpack and write thank you notes. nbsp;Thank yous should go out as gifts come in, not all at once after the honeymoon. nbsp;Sorry, but I feel like you are largely to blame for this. nbsp;Target has separate problems, but a 90day return policy is not one of them.nbsp; Posted by hoffse[/QUOTE]

I don't have much sympathy for the op. I am prewedding but I've bought a house and we had a hellish search and closing so I know what that's like. Also I've had plenty of friends who were in apts get married and register. Not very smart of you to register for such color specific choices. You should have stuck with white. You had plenty of time to return things. Sorry this is your fault.

JoanE2012 · August 2012

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_registering-gifts_brides-please-read-beware-of-target-stores-registry?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding BoardsForum:34Discussion:f39e0bf4-68fd-4265-956a-82f942eda1e1Post:2aa4cfe2-e402-4143-9597-c20fd84b5b57">Re: Brides Please Read: BEWARE of TARGET stores REGISTRY!!!</a>:
[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Brides Please Read: BEWARE of TARGET stores REGISTRY!!! : Me too. :) Also, didn't you know you registered for blue dishes without having to open them? <strong>If you knew you were going to move and you wanted to match, why didn't you just register for something neutral?</strong>
Posted by Ali092011[/QUOTE]

This. We specifically left key items that would usually be on a registry off because we will be looking to buy a house after the wedding and want to wait to see what will work with whatever we end up buying.

FutureMrsKupko · August 2012

Side note: Bed Bath and Beyond has a policy that they will take back anything that was bought on your registry at ANY point- it could be 2 years after they were bought and they will allow exchange- even towels! ( I was really surprised by that) No reciept needed or anything, they keep your registry on file. This way when we move in 2 years, we can exchange whatever we need to coordinate with our new home.

kristinanddan · August 2012

I'm post-wedding so I must have some authority:

This is your problem, not Target's. Just admit you didn't know the return policy and you messed up; don't pass off your accountability. Crap happens, but the world certainly isn't going to stop turning because you use blue plates in a red kitchen.

cnf2013 · August 2012

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_registering-gifts_brides-please-read-beware-of-target-stores-registry?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding%20BoardsForum:34Discussion:f39e0bf4-68fd-4265-956a-82f942eda1e1Post:6e4dd9d5-9ca7-4252-b984-f32fe42a5db2">Re: Brides Please Read: BEWARE of TARGET stores REGISTRY!!!</a>:
[QUOTE]All I can say to you is this: Clearly you are pre-wedding, not post-wedding. If you are both a working couple trying to start your life aftera wedding, 90 days will feel like 48 hours. Don't speak about things you don't know about.
Posted by Ladyphoenixnh[/QUOTE]

<div>Holy rude Batman. It doesn't matter how quickly the 90 days felt to you. You still should have thought to open the box and see what you got so you could write a thank you note. Making people wait for the thanks you should say because they shelled out money for you is rude. It doesn't matter that you were buying a house and starting a life together, you can still say thanks to those who bought you a gift. </div><div>
</div><div>While I may not be married yet, my FI and I already purchased a home together and got a puppy less than a week later, we both work full time and I'm still in grad school. His family that lives 2000 miles away from us were nice enough to send us housewarming cards and a few small gifts. We managed to set down whatever we were doing to open cards and boxes and send them a thank you in return. It's called being polite and well mannered. Target doesn't have to wait around for you to decide when you feel it's your due time to open the gifts and make a decision about them. That's their return policy and you should have been aware of it from the get go. If you weren't then I'm sorry, but that doesn't change the fact that it's their policy and they don't exchange the items. Time to move on. </div><div>
</div><div>Once preapproved, it didn't FI and I long to buy a house. We got approved, found a house in less than a week and closed 30 days later. It doesn't take more than 90 to buy a house if you know what you want and have the money and loans to back you. </div><div>
</div><div>And quite being so rude. </div>

erbear84 · August 2012

As a former Target employee, we hated people like you who came in completely entitled. The return policy is the same for everyone. 90 days. Period. Don't like it? Don't shop there. By the way, Target's first store opened in 1962...hardly 15 years ago.

Also, it took my FI and I about two months to get preapproved, find, and close on a home. It may have taken longer for you, but not everyone. We both work two jobs and we're remodeling and moving into a new house but I think I'd manage some time in there to go to Target for a return if needed.

Lang125 · August 2012

Can't you just paint the kitchen to match your plates?

[Deleted User] · August 2012

You registered for these items, correct?
They were not damaged, correct?
Sounds like you are lazy.
Targets return policies are more than fair.

jlk13 · August 2012

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_registering-gifts_brides-please-read-beware-of-target-stores-registry?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding BoardsForum:34Discussion:f39e0bf4-68fd-4265-956a-82f942eda1e1Post:e92c6765-7e48-42f4-bf1f-89f7df726d44">Re: Brides Please Read: BEWARE of TARGET stores REGISTRY!!!</a>:
[QUOTE]Make of this what you will, Brides-to-be, but any store that will not take back their OWN UNOPENED PRODUCT with PROOF OF PURCHASE is a store that is only out to take your money. Their rationale is that their stock rotates every 30-90 days, Imagine simply trying to buy MORE of the same product (Oops, my dog broke a serving plate, I need a new one) but you can't get it because they stopped selling it 30 days after you bought it... This is corporate America, people, it's disheartening to know that so many of you agree with a large-corporation mentality that has only been around for about 15 years. Maybe it's that I'm an older bride who saw what things were like before huge non-American-made massive product mills like Target were open, but with age comes wisdom. I have been through this, and it's great and exciting to walk into a store and use the little gun to mark all the items you want with abandon, knowing you will not have to pay for them and they can be yours! Then you pick out bedsheets and curtains and plates and everything color-coordinated to match the vision of your dream-home that you've had in your head "ever since you were a little girl". It takes FAR MORE than 90 days to get through the Mortgage/House buying process, and that's after you've found the perfect house. Buying a house after you get married is not that unrealistic, people, and unless Daddy handed you a house beforehand, you are NOT going to know beforehand what is actually going to work with your house once you get in it. The Registry is simple consumerism for the sake of consumerism and it feeds off the dreams of people like us who are all starry-eyed about the white-picket-fence process. Shower curtain? I now have a glassed-in-shower. Totally useless. If you take nothing else from this post then remember this: BEWARE of the Registry process; ask people to give you gift cards or money; it will serve you much better.
Posted by Ladyphoenixnh[/QUOTE]

Get over yourself. Yes, life gets busy. Crazy busy in fact, but you find time for the things that need to get done and are important to you.

It seems to me that you made a choice to disregard people's gifts-aside from the fact that they went out of their way to spend their hard earned money on you and your husband- and you kept putting it on the back burner.

It would have taken you 15 minutes to open the box, realize you didn't like the place setting and send a thank you. You're rude and inconsiderate to the guests that came to celebrate your big day. Don't blame Target for your lack of time management skills.

PS-You sound like a 'gen x' moaning and goaning about having responsibilities. Get over it.

insanityofamom · August 2012

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_registering-gifts_brides-please-read-beware-of-target-stores-registry?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding%20BoardsForum:34Discussion:f39e0bf4-68fd-4265-956a-82f942eda1e1Post:8f16fde3-eac0-48fe-8e0c-226f65646fd3">Re: Brides Please Read: BEWARE of TARGET stores REGISTRY!!!</a>:
[QUOTE]
Posted by cfaszews25[/QUOTE]

<div>Love Damon! :) </div><div>
</div><div>Oh, the problems in the first world. "<em>My dinner plates don't match my walls.</em>" Seriously?!</div>

lcatterton · August 2012

"This is corporate America, people, it's disheartening to know that so many of you agree with a large-corporation mentality that has only been around for about 15 years. Maybe it's that I'm an older bride who saw what things were like before huge non-American-made massive product mills like Target were open, but with age comes wisdom. I have been through this, and it's great and exciting to walk into a store and use the little gun to mark all the items you want with abandon, knowing you will not have to pay for them and they can be yours! Then you pick out bedsheets and curtains and plates and everything color-coordinated to match the vision of your dream-home that you've had in your head "ever since you were a little girl"."

Just a side note, I've researched and begun the process of becoming a minimalist (slow process, but still) which means becoming the opposite of a consumer and only having the things that are necessary to live. Honestly, I agree with your views on how consumerism is bringing this country down. However, anyone who has these views (or is against the consumeristic world) would certainly not give two sh*ts about return policies. And they DEFINITELY would NOT freak out about the color of their plates. I mean, they are just plates. They still hold food, do they not?

HeidiWard04 · August 2012

"All I can say to you is this: Clearly you are pre-wedding, not post-wedding. If you are both a working couple trying to start your life aftera wedding, 90 days will feel like 48 hours. Don't speak about things you don't know about."
Really? If you are a working couple trying to PLAN and execute a wedding, I can PROMISE you life is equally hectic. And yet! Somehow I've managed to find time to read the return policy for both of my registries. And I agree with other posters. There is NO excuse for waiting so long to send out thank you notes.
But thanks for illustrating our culture's STUNNING lack of willingness to take personal responsibility for anything.

Brides Please Read: BEWARE of TARGET stores REGISTRY!!!

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