Today is incredibly busy. Almost feeling a bit overwhelmed, but I’m plowing ahead. Anyway, Patrick and I finally have a website for our wedding. We went through two different ones hosted by free wedding website sites, but didn’t like them. So we bought a domain, and made a blog instead, because it seemed the easiest and we could customize it more.
I’ll be adding more information as time goes on, like the wedding party, etc. This whole wedding thing is starting to feel very real.
You know what else? Making gift registries is unexpectedly hard. We already live together. We already have tons of things that we love, so trying to pick out more things for our home is proving difficult. Do we really want new towels or bath accessories? What is the appropriate amount of place settings? Plus considering how airplane ticket prices are going up, and a number of our guests are from out of town, it makes me a bit uncomfortable to ask them to buy us gifts, as well.
That’s another thing I’m worried about. Gas prices are skyrocketing, and are only going to get worse. What if a lot of my out of town guests can’t even afford to come? That would be so incredibly depressing, especially since I only have one family member attending, and the rest are friends.
In happier news, I’ve let all of my girls know who are bridesmaids. Not only that, I ended up asking my mother to be my matron of honor. She cried. We hugged. We picked out a dress for her, which I’m buying her as a gift. Patrick has his men chosen, as well, even all have not been asked.
I’m also looking into our ceremony. Writing our own vows. We’re doing a non-denominational (but Christian) ceremony. My Catholic grandfather is rolling over in his grave somewhere. It’s probably bad enough that Patrick is an Irish boy instead of a “Nice Italian boy”. But whatever. I remember my mother and I having to lie to my great aunt about my Jewish boyfriend. We called him Jimmy, and of course he was Italian!
Well, I should get back to work. This five minute break was nice, but I have other things I should be worrying about.
8 Comments
July 7, 2008 at 5:54 pm
We struggled with that when we first set up our wedding registry, too. I think now that people often live together for awhile, it gets harder to register. I’ve talked to a lot of people who have similar issues. But guests appreciate the registry, and as long as you put things on there at all price points, they won’t spend more than they feel they can afford.
Of course, I say that to you, but I’m still traumatized over asking for gifts myself.
July 7, 2008 at 6:06 pm
Wow your wedding Web site is very nice. Definitely a lot nicer than some I’ve seen on the free-hosted sites. I love gift registries, it’s a great time to replace stuff you already have and have merged together with newer, nicer stuff. I’ll do your registry for you!
July 7, 2008 at 7:41 pm
You should totally register at Home Depot or Lowe’s if it’s possible. My husband and I already had all the house-y stuff, but we were lacking in the yard department.
July 7, 2008 at 8:25 pm
When one of my close friends got married she and her husband had a lot of stuff already, but they took the opporunity to get nicer things. Things that will last for a long time instead of the every day stuff we get at ikea on normal occasions.
July 8, 2008 at 5:57 am
After combining our two homes and donating almost as much stuff as we kept, my wife and I set up a small registry but, mostly, we asked people to donate money to our favorite charities. We simply didn’t need any more “stuff”.
July 8, 2008 at 1:08 pm
When we registered, we decided to only register for the things that we really wanted. We didn’t register for nice china, but registered for cool modern plates instead. We registered for the stuff we thought we would actually use and not have to return. We returned most of it any way so we didn’t have to take it on the plane home, but it worked out well for us. Exhausting though.
July 8, 2008 at 1:28 pm
Nice site! All the free ones are so cheesy, I couldn’t even take it, so Jesse is getting one of his friends to help design it and host it and whatnot. His best man, actually. :)
I, too, am worried about out-of-towners being able to make it :/
July 13, 2008 at 5:21 pm
We registered for luggage and a Dyson and nicer versions of the things we had.
I had an issue with registering for things because I felt selfish, but my future sister-in-law took a look at my registries and said “You need to register for more stuff. People get kind of angry when they go to your registry and there’s nothing left.” That’s when we registered for bedding, a new bed frame, a coffee table… Apparently guests get crazy generous at wedding time.