KEEP REGISTRIES SIMPLE
2009 Wedding Gifts

By Shelley Waugh

ridal gift registry services are free and are usually available at department and specialty stores. If there are other places you would like to add to your lot of registries, approach the owner or manager of the location and ask if one can be done up.

You might want to include a home-improvement or computer store, gourmet food emporiums, antique shops, art galleries, a beauty salon or a health spa. Use your imagination, register anything you want where you want … and don't forget your honeymoon. When you are shopping for your honeymoon site, ask the travel agent if you can register your honeymoon. Be sure to add it to your list of registry locations. You'll be glad you did!

Once you have made your choice, your gift selection(s) will be on record in the store's computer under your name and wedding date. There's no duplication because with each purchase the computer updates your list. 

The location of stores where you are registered can be noted on informal shower invitations, but not on formal wedding invitations.

When guests ask what you would like, email, fax or send your list. 

Stores with branches can coordinate their computer listings and can deliver or ship the gifts to the address on your registration. 

You may register at more than one specialty store, but don't register the same items at more than one retailer.

www.WeddingsHoneymoons.com | April 13, 2009