Not having a gift registry-what did you do?

I will probably get chewed on how people think this is cheap but I love the idea especially because we did it for one of our friends and it was nice to see the pictures when they got back.

But a Honeymoon registry Like honeymoon pixie, Honeyfund or General registry like Zola.com (you can do a down payment to a house as one of the items. Some have fees but we didn't mind the fees when we did it for our friends as a guest.

They were taking a cruise and had on the their registry a pirate excursion and we bought them that. I think it can be done nicely as long as you have items get them excited to give you. If you just have flight and hotel... not so much but like moonlight dinner it makes it more fun to give.

I wouldn't just not do a registry because at least with my family someone always asks because they do not know what to get them.

Im not against a honeyfund. Im going to have one. Whoever thinks thats 'rude' we'll thats their opinion. If people want to they will contribute if they dont they wont. End of story

Don't have a registry. A lot of people will apparently interpret that as "cash, please." When you have someone who inquires about your registry or lack thereof, just say that you and your fiance do not want for anything!

I'm just not mentioning anything. If they call our moms up to ask, they'll just say "your presence is a gift" since I would rather have them spend that money on travel than consider the event too expensive and not show up at all. It would be difficult to fly with large wrapped boxes since they would be flying in from out of town, so if they bring anything at all it may be a gift card of sorts. (If I did have a registry I'd order the most powerful vacuum cleaner in the world because my dog's fur has already burnt the motors on three.)

We didn't register anywhere. We did receive a few wrapped gifts (maybe 3?), but we got a lot of cards with cash. That's pretty typical though for western PA. Wrapped gifts are given at the shower (which I didn't have) and cards and cash are the wedding gift.

We asked for no gifts and got a lot of cash, checks, gcs and a very few prezzies as well.

We didn't register anywhere either. We had maybe 8 wrapped gifts and the rest were cards with money or gift cards.

The wrapped gifts were towels, picture frames, grill items, and wine. Things we could actually use. We were very pleased!

We are doing a a registry at honeyfund.com, not because we "want" cash, but because we have 40 things total on our registry... we don't need much. i think it is a great idea, my family thinks it is a great idea especially for people who don't like to go out and shop.

I ended up doing a small registry on pottery barn. Some if my relatives are from Canada, and the Cayman Islands and they are gift givers. So for some folks who can't come or the ones that don't customarily give cash, they will enjoy buying us a gift from the registry.

As others have said, I think a honeymoon registry is a great option. I'm using honeymoonpixie. If you don't do that, I would suggest not registering anywhere. People will get the idea.

We're moving from the US to Scotland for a few years after the wedding so we won't be able to take much with us as far as gifts go. We're using Wanderable.com for our honeymoon registry. It was really fun creating and personalizing "gifts" together! And you can pretty much put anything you want on there too if you wanted to include your dream house renovations. We did a lot of research about our destination and looked up fun things to do (white water rafting, zip lining, wild food adventures) that we would personally love to give to our friends. Think it's important to make it tactful, yet personal and fun for guests if you decide to go that route

This topic has been our conversation for the last couple of weeks, as I want to get one started somewhere soon. We moved in together last summer, to his fully furnished house and I sold my fully furnished condo. We really don't need a TON of things, but I mentioned how it would be nice to upgrade some stuff, or replace something that was old, get some things each one of us have wanted to get, etc.

We have also discussed a honeymoon fund, as any cash we get would probably go towards that anyway. I don't think any of our guests would think having a honeymoon fund as "tacky" (like some people think it is).

We registered for a very limited amount of items, basically because a couple of my aunts asked about it. But I know personally I don't even bother with wedding gifts, unless its a super close friend and just give cash.