Are Group Gifts a No Go? (registry Question)

Group gifts are fine. I don't know of websites that allow you to split the funds like that.. but that's neat. For a wedding I went to recently I just asked a group of friends if they wanted to go in on one of the larger items on the list. I purchased it, and then each person paid me. We have a couple of expensive gifts on our registry (dyson vacuum, espresso machine) that I assume will be purchased by a group of people (if at all).

I would just pool whatever money you receive to pay for those bigger items. I don't think it's worth the stress of trying to figure out how to encourage people to split the costs of large gifts. Too much micromanaging of gifts doesn't come across well to many people. The more you just let it go, the happier you will be.

I’m pretty sure that if whatever registry you’re using has a group gift option, it should be able to handle separate people contributing to it. We’re using Amazon and they have this option. I just read that the amount actually gets sent to you as a gift card to redeem towards that present, so the item won’t get sent directly when the funds have been matched, you’ll have to place the actual order

View Quoted Comment Thanks! Yep I know for sure Zola and Amazon have this (I'm sure others may do it too) here's a reference for what I'm referring to. It will show the contributor how much has been purchased towards that item etc.

View Quoted Comment Would you pool funds from a cash fund? Or just whatever non physical gifts are given, use that $ to purchase whatever we need?

View Quoted Comment Love that Amazon does this! I'm likely going to use Amazon too since they're just the bomb lol. I didn't know that about the gift card, super helpful, thanks!

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Yes, I just meant to use the money that any number of guests will likely give you, to buy the things you need and want. Wedding guests are all different of course, but many of them will give you money (cash or checks) because that's a very common wedding gifts. The best part about that, is you can use the money for literally anything you want.

We had the "contribute X to this item" open on our Amazon registry for items over $250 (we only had 3). We only had one person contribute to one of the gifts but it helped when we bought it at the end for sure!

View Quoted Comment Gotcha, thanks! That's a good plan! I think I asked orginally because of some family members who prefer to do things more traditional (i.e. physical gifts) or who just want to know where their gift is going, and some feedback about having a blend of options from fellow brides on here, I wanted to have a few physical things visible for people to contribute (not that we're wanting or expecting at all, but want to be prepared for questions)

View Quoted Comment Oh awesome, thanks for that response!

Amazon does! I did that for my more pricier items

I know there are some sites that let you do the group gift option. I’m using blue registry and for the pricier gifts, I did a group cash option. People can put money towards it and if it doesn’t get fully funded, you just put the difference towards the item.

View Quoted Comment We did this on a couple of items. We also had just had 1 person purchase high price items, and others repay that person, but the gift was from the group. Giving people the option to split is nice, but even if you don’t, they will figure it out if they want to.

View Quoted Comment Nice! Thanks so much!

View Quoted Comment Oh cool! How do you like the Blue Registry? I've only briefly heard of it

View Quoted Comment Makes sense, thanks!

View Quoted Comment I’m only using it for my registry but it’s super easy. You install their “button” on your browser and can add any item from any site to it.

Our Amazon registry had an option for the more expensive gifts to be group gifts or to have people contribute to them.

Zola lets you make gifts to group gifts too! We are doing that.

View Quoted Comment I’m loving it so far. I’m only using for my registry but you can easily you it for your whole wedding site to set up events, invite guest, create your registry, travel arrangements and set up bridal and groom parties.