Registry items to Guest Count Ratio?

Well, that depends. We plan to keep a minimum of 1 gift per person. Bear in mind that a family of 4-5 guests will likely get a single gift, so 1 gift per guest should leave room for a lot of options. Same for couples- 2 people will bring one gift. Please note that I am generalizing heavily here, but yeah, even if you do 1 per guest, that should still give your guests plenty of choices.

We didn't take the ratio into consideration. We just registered for what we wanted. In total, we have 157 gifts vs. 233 invited guests. After the shower, only 40% of the gifts have been purchased.

ETA: Changed "I"'s to "we"'s because I sounded like a monster.

We recommend registering for at least two gifts per guest so that there are plenty of options for everyone! The more important thing is to make sure that you are registering for gifts at a variety of price points!

https://www.weddingwire.com/wedding-registry/articles/top-registry-questions-answered.html

We registered for the things we wanted and didn't worry about the ratio. We were conscious in choosing budget friendly brands. I also broke up my pot set into individual options considering most pot sets cost about 250 on average.

I received a ton of gift cards at my shower despite having registered for about 190 items and I was perfectly fine with that. I love stashing gift cards for rainy days

Most registries will let you know! I know Zola does!

When we went to register, the places gave us an idea of how many per guest you should be registering for. 2-3 per guest was the average we were told. Not that you're expecting that many gifts per guest, but then it allows them a larger list to select from.

Make sure you include gifts of all price ranges as well!

I did a small registry for my bridal shower. 29 different options for 17 people. Only 3 people bought from the registry and others complained about where I registered and went off registry.

I didn't worry about the ratio. Especially since anything left on the registry we get a percentage off of and will likely buy for us after

I never even thought of this!! We are inviting 134 people and have 21 gifts on our registry. Now I'm nervous we need more items, ugh! I guess it makes sense to have the registry proportional to guests but it's hard to come up with items when you already live with your FH and own a house.

We were told 2-3 per guest. Both to give options, but it was also pointed out to us that for things like towels, someone is likely to buy a set, not just one single towel (same thing for small kitchen gadgets). I think we only have like 1.5 items to guests though. . .in the end we registered for what we wanted.

When I was in the stores registering, they told me to register more than the number of guests so guests have variation to choose from because you don't want guests to choose gifts from off the list (and get something you may not like). I was told to register 30% more than the guest number invited (this would also take care of engagement and shower gifts).

We had a very large registry (about 3 items per guest) because we really needed to replace all the college era stuff in our house, so we had around 3 gifts per guest. Like @Susan mentioned, for some items guests will but multiple (towels, dishes, serving utensils, etc). I like using a serving dish and remembering who bought it or putting a book on a shelf and thinking about his grandmother who bought them for us.

With that size of a registry, about 80% of our guests gave us physical gifts at the shower and wedding, so we didn't receive many cash gifts. If you want cash for your wedding, I would suggest not adding any additional items after your shower. If you want physical gifts though, add away!

I didn't worry about a ratio. Have a range of price points. Some people will buy several smaller items that go together and several people could go in on a larger gift. Also know your family/friends. My family doesn't do gifts at the wedding, shower only. They are cash in a card group. I learned his family is a gift (vs cash) so we had to add more for that. But if there is t anything they want to buy. left people will buy gift cards.

Honestly our ratio is probably a little low but there's not a lot that we need as a couple. If a few people want to go in on some bigger things, there's a couple of options on there. But we definitely don't have 1-3 things per guest on there. After our shower, I'll re-evaluate and add more before the wedding if needed.

We invited 250 guests but had a registry of around 120 items. In our family/social circle it's extremely uncommon to give a boxed gift at the reception. I'd estimate that over 80% of the items on our registry were bought for the shower. Some gifts (for the wedding) were sent directly to our home, before or after the ceremony. We had a tote bag of cards and a shopping bag of boxed gifts (maybe 5?) to take home from the reception.

Same here, we have 19 gifts on our registry and are inviting 110 people. i keep trying to think of more things to put on the registry but our apartment is small, we don't have room for much "stuff" and my FW is the least materialistic person ever lol. but we also aren't having a shower, so i'm not too concerned.

all in all, we would prefer cash so having a small registry pretty much says that without actually saying it haha.

I think rather than have a ratio, have items of varying price points. Some family/friends may join together to purchase one large gift for you, while others may purchase several small items. Also if you don't have enough items for all of your guests on your registry, I'm sure that will lead to some cash gifts as well!