Where have you registered for your bridal shower?

Victoria's Secret is my only registry for the bridal shower for now. I am thinking about Kohl's (perfume only) as well.

I think giving your guests a variety is good.

I don't think it's too much. You want to give your guests different options and price points. Plus, some ladies may not feel comfortable walking into a VS!

Are you considering your bridal shower registry separate from your wedding registry? Are you registering for household items?

I understand the lingerie thing for the honeymoon, but are all your guests going to be comfortable buying you lingerie?

Also Sephora seems like a really strange place to register for a wedding to me. I would never buy someone beauty products for a shower gift. I guess I tend to think that a bridal shower, while typically thrown for a bride, should still be for the groom as well and the couple as a whole.

Agreeing with MrsO. Some people have lingerie showers or even for a conventional shower, you might get a sexy nightie, but usually the registry isn't that heavy on personal stuff; it's still usually household stuff or stuff for the couple...

We're registered at honeyfund.com, Macy's (towels only), Amazon, and BBB... If people buy off that for the wedding or the shower, we don't care/haven't made separate registries.

I'm with the last two ladies...I've never heard of registering at those places. My FH & I are register st BB&B for our home. I personally would not buy a gift for s shower at VS or Sephora....in that case I would buy a Visa gift card.

I've heard of doing lingerie for the bachelorette, but I've never heard of doing that for the bridal shower, and we certainly don't register for lingerie. Around here the bridal shower is strictly for gifts for the couple, particularly home-type gifts. Most people register at Macy's and Target.

It's interesting to read about how things are very different in different regions.

Good luck!

I registered at VC but did not just register for lingerie/sexy attire.

In California, the bridal shower is strictly for the bride. I have never been to a bridal shower where a bride received a mixer, linens, etc.

This is interesting-- curious, mrs b, where your from....I'm wondering if lingerie for the bridal shower is a southern thing (plus CA).

Every bridal shower i have been to has been a shower for the BRIDE. lingerie and other personal things. i've never been to a shower where anyone has registered but they did give their bra and clothing size. i would think it weird to bring a household appliance to the bridal shower but if that's what the lady wants then that's what she'll get!

i think 30 ladies is just fine for the shower. you have to figure everyone won't show up.

Ive never been to a bridal shower where the bride received lingerie, perfume, etc... it has always been thrown for the bride, but with the intentions for the bride and groom. Mostly household items with familiar registries at BB&B, Macys, Crate and Barrel. I personally would feel weird registering or buying off a registry at VS or a make up store. Just my opinion and from my experiences.

I'm from St. Louis missouri and no it's not a southern thing. I always pictured a bridal shower to be for just the bride, so lingere was definitely on my list of wants. I don't see how shopping for lingere for someone's honeymoon is going to make people uncomfortable, you can also buy things online these days. I invited ladies that were pretty close to me so that won't be a problem. But that's also why I wanted to include Sephora and kohls to give people options.

Sephora for wedding day makeup. I wasn't planning on going crazy with it just a few things.

Is St. Louis the South? lol anyway, it's not a southern thing...

This is a little bizarre to me, I have never seen two different registries for the shower and the wedding. A shower is not just for the bride to stock up on all of her favorite things. It's for the couple to begin receiving the items they need to build a home together. Lingerie is cool for a bachelorette party or a LINGERIE shower, but just a bridal shower is not really appropriate.

It's bizarre to me that you would use the same registries for the wedding and the shower. I've always pictured a bridal shower to be thrown for just the bride.

There are themed showers (lots of interesting examples, incl lingerie showers, on the Emily Post website http://www.emilypost.com/weddings/new-times-new-traditions/647-shower-themes-from-lingerie-to-the-great-outdoors) but the usual shower, according to nationally released books, not just in Indiana/Ohio, tends to be household stuff.

In our family, wedding registries are for the home, bridal shower/bachelorette party are for the bride and bachelor party is for the groom. There is a registry for each event. The wedding registry is the longest as all of the invited guests will choose from that registry. The bridal shower has a list, the bachelorette party will have a list and the bachelor party will have a list. These are shorter that the wedding registry as the attendees to these events will be considerably smaller.

Yea, this idea is a strange concept to me. It's not like a birthday party for the bride. Maybe it's a regional and/or cultural thing but I can't seem to wrap my mind around it.

Typically where I am from the couple registers together for all their household needs and wants. That registry is used for both the shower and the wedding (no registry info in invites though). Usually gifts from the registry are given at the shower and cash is given at the wedding (though some still prefer to give physical gifts from the registry at the wedding as well).

Occasionally you will run into "themed showers" like Glenda said, and sometimes you might see a lingerie shower, however this doesn't necessarily seem to be the case here.

^^^ this! She can always put into words what I can't seem to get across haha!

@mindy- I agree that a bridal shower is thrown for a bride becoming a wife who will need new things for her FH. Not for the home.

Bridal shower for the bride, wedding for the couple about to start their life as husband and wife lol Why would you receive gifts at your bridal shower that are the same as gifts on your wedding, that just makes NO sense to me.

@rayray- I've always pictured a shower to be thrown for the bride to be able stock up on her favorite things that would please FH that she would not be able to buy herself because she is planning a wedding. That's just me I guess, my BMs all think the same thing so I'm good there I guess lol.

Ive never heard of seperate registries, but to each their own....

FutureMrsB, if this is how it is done in your family and social circle, go for it.

Like I said, this is just something that I have never seen or heard of so it is a strange concept to me.