Bridal shower registry vs wedding registry

You can definitely make a registry strictly for your bridal shower and then take it down afterwards. As for the honeymoon donations, please don't mention that anywhere on your invitation. Listing any type of registry information directly on the invitation is bad etiquette. If you don't have a registry, people will take the hint that you would prefer to be gifted with cash

You can absolutely do that. That is kind of what we did. Planned on having no registry, showers etc, MOH (cousin) was bummed and wanted to throw a shower so she picked a Stock The Bar theme since we already lived together and needed nothing else. It was a blast! You and her can pick a theme like that or you can just use the registry to upgrade items you already have so you don't have more stuff to find places for. We used Amazon for our registry.

As far as the honeymoon donations for the wedding, I wouldn't put that on your wedding invites. Include a details card or just have it on your website.

That is where I currently am. FH didn't want a registry, but I am having a bridal shower, but not a big one. I started a registry and have maybe 40 items on it. But I got strong-armed into registering for dinner place settings and I am just concerned that someone would buy a few and I would have the rest left on the registry (which I wasn't planning on sharing for the wedding). So still trying to figure that out.

You can definitely register for just a bridal shower, but I definitely wouldn't put anything on wedding invitations about donating to a honeymoon fund. Normally you put that information on your wedding website then give your guests the information for your website. You could also do lingerie shower if you don't want a traditional bridal shower.

View Quoted Comment Thank you!!! That’s great advice!

That’s what I planned to do, but then tons of people invited to the wedding kept asking “where are you registered?” so it was just easier to keep it on our wedding website, avoid the questions, if people wanted to get us a tangible gift at least they’d get us something we picked out ourselves, and most people gave cash/a check anyway.

I don't think so. I'd just make a very small registry for the shower with lower priced items, then delete the registry after the shower.