STYLETHREAD -- LET'S TALK SHOP!

when we registered, i thought about the guests who will be coming to our wedding - it's about half family and half friends for us. most of our friends are our age, recently married themselves, will be travelling for the wedding, in grad school, etc, so we put plenty of $50 and under items on the list for them. also, while i have a relatively large family, the Trumps and Kennedies are not relations, so even family members will probably get gifts for us in the $100 range. so we put about 90% of the items in the $150 and under range and then added a few big-ticket items that maybe we will get. if we don't get them, it's nice to have the 10% off completion discount to buy them for ourselves. so that was our registering thought process. we registered for things that we really wanted in the best quality that was within a realistic budget for our personal guest list.

if you have friends or family who have the means to spend more on gifts (or have shown in the past that they tend to do so), then you should register within a higher range if that is what you want. i think the important thing to remember (and to avoid feeling of being a "greedy gus") is to only register for things that you really want and/or need and not just use the registering process to pick a bunch of extravagant stuff just because this is the only time that you'll have this kind of chance to do so (this appears to be the mindset of a lot of brides/grooms out there). if you don't cook or don't ever plan to, don't register for a full set of all clad cookware just because you might never buy it for youself. same with china - if you don't want it or won't use it, don't pick a $500 per place-setting set just because.

that's my .02 on the registry.

I know a lot of my friends chose luggage as their expensive item. Obviously silver and some china is expensive, but a comforter and luggage are good "expensive" items.

We still need to add bed and kitchen linens and other misc stuff.