Destination Wedding - Registry for People who are not invited

Assuming they know by now that they aren't invited, I see nothing wrong with telling them where you're registered if they're explicitly asking.

If they ask you, tell them. I had some friends who weren't invited ask because they wanted to give us gifts. If that is what they would like to do, it's fine.

Do they know they are not invited?

We're are also having an intimate destination wedding. We created a small registry and gave the information to those that asked about gifts. We let them know gifts are not necessary but if they felt inclined to getting us something, the gift would be well received.

Just put it on your wedding website. People will search your names and see the registry, and can purchase from it if they want.

Thinking of doing something small in the dominican and having a larger reception at home - how did you go about inviting the 15 guests to your destination and everyone else to your local reception?

We had two separate invites. For our DW, it was immediate family + a few fun party yet drama-free friends who could afford to travel (one couple was also invited to our local reception and we just asked they kept our DW invite hush hush because we share the same group of friends). Because our DW was small we could tell anyone who asked that we had a small mostly-family private wedding.

Having a local reception was great because we could invite co-workers, single friends who couldn't afford to travel to the DW, and anyone who would want to support us but not stay the entire time due to age, health issues, or social anxiety.

Does that help or do you have a specific question?

We thought several times about not creating a registry since we're doing a DW, but several people have asked and we've been told if people want to celebrate you and offer a gift, let them. So we're creating one on Amazon to make it easy for people to send one if they'd like. We plan to put our registry information on our invitations.