Committed: The Ties that Bond
with Angella Dykstra
I'm a mom of three, a professional accountant, and an amateur photographer and writer. I am not a marriage expert. But my husband and I take "Til death do us part" seriously, and here I'll be sharing how we keep our marriage strong while we both do that insane work-life juggle.
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I came across an article over at Divine Caroline titled, “When “I Do” Means “I Want” – The New Rules of Registry.” The article explains what items are appropriate…and what items are not. The stores mentioned in the article that have registries was pretty varied and a little mind-blowing.
As someone who got married nearly ten years ago (Woo!) our options for registering at the time were The Hudson’s Bay Company (I’m Canadian. Holla!) and IKEA. My husband and I had both spent a number of years living on our own before we met, so we didn’t necessarily need anything.
Did we want new things? Well, sure. Who doesn’t want new things? Especially when you’re throwing a big party in honor of…you.
We honestly only registered for the sake of those that did not know what gift to get for us. We had two friends who would always buy an ironing board as their “clutch” gift, so we registered for one just for them. I’ve used it probably…five or so times in the last nine and a half years, but hey. It’s been used. Ish.
Some of my most favorite gifts are the ones that were not on our registry. We got a cool set of dishes for serving sushi and a stove-top popcorn popper that allows us to make kettle corn. Mmmm…kettle corn.
How about you? Did you/would you register somewhere? If so, where?
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We too registered at the Bay. I did it because I totally wanted to play with that sweet scanner
We also did it mostly because after the wedding we had a year to purchase anything off our registry for it’s cheapest sale price (even if there was no current sale). We also had a little fun with it and registered for a carseat and a crib.
We weren’t at all pregnant (not a possibility then) and thought it was such a great joke when a few family - Corey’s Dad and stepMom especially called us in a panic. However the joke was on us - I had the stomach flu before and during our wedding, negating my method of birth control and wound up getting pregnant with Bethany on our honeymoon, genius!
Anyways, we did end up getting both of those things as shower gifts - baby shower gifts.
Ashley | September 22nd, 2009 at 10:28 am
Yes, we had a register. Ours was at a NZ store called Living & Giving. They sell some pretty neat stuff, all really good quality, but still affordable. We are STILL using a lot of the ovenware and dinnerware from our list, because we love it and it has lasted 10 years. My cousin lives in the US (New York at the time of our wedding) and couldn’t come over for the wedding, so simply phoned up the store, chose something (an entire 6-setting dinnerset + matching cutlery) and arranged for it to be gift wrapped and delivered to our house.
Hannah | September 22nd, 2009 at 3:22 pm
We registered at the Bay too. It was crazy expensive though and looking back I wish we had registered at Sears. I like to give money as a gift myself. I just think weddings are so overwhelming that I wonder if the stuff people register for is even stuff they want/need or just something they saw when they had that clicker thing.
Lindsay | September 23rd, 2009 at 6:15 pm