Registry

I was vaguely aware of how registries work, but have never actually bought something off a registry before. I remember looking at Joe Montana’s wedding registry in William Sonoma years ago, but before this whole wedding thing, that had been the extent of my “wedding registry” experience.

I’m not a big present person or into shopping (unless it is food!), but now that we are home owners, I’ll admit there is a lot of stuff we need. I also understand that many of our friends and family want to give us a gift in celebration of this fantastic event and a registry can be a useful tool for gift-givers. So now we are officially registered at Macy’s and REI.

If you are so inclined as to give us a gift (by no means required!), feel free to wander through our registries:

MACY’S: Macy's Gift Registry
You can search by either of our names in the "find" box. You can also shop off the registry in any Macy's or over the phone.

REI: REI Gift Registry

Same deal as Macy's - you can search by either of our names and shop on line, in any store or over the phone.

Or, if you aren’t a shopping type of person, but still want to give us a gift, feel free to think outside the registry! Here is a quick brainstorm of non-registry “gifts” that would delight us:

• Services: Yard work, take care of the puppy or kitty when we are on our honeymoon, make us dinner, clean our house, etc.
• Art work (your own, your friend's, something from a gallery, something from a fair.)
• Classes (cheese making, welding, pottery, astronomy, wine tasting, glass blowing, etc.)
• An experience (a weekend at the beach or take us camping somewhere really cool!)
• Vases, candle-holders, picture frames, etc. These things can be found at Macy's, but tend to be way too expensive and not very interesting.
  
• Books - or a gift certificate to Powell's!
• A membership to the Japanese Gardens, Art Museum or something really neat we don't even KNOW about.
• Gift certificates to the Bike Gallery!
• Gift certificates to Home Depot (or other such home improvement type places)!
  
• Massages
• Barbecue
  
• Food dehydrator
  
• Donation to the Oregon Humane Society in our name (if you have another foundation in mind, please check with us first!)
  
• Pay our mortgage?? Maybe just one payment? He he he...