OK, we’ve been through this once before with the birth of your baby. Now you’re getting married and I received a nice invitation. When I opened it, a card fell out stating that the happy couple were registered at stores X,Y, and Z. I filed this information away for future reference.
Now it is time for me to purchase a gift, and I thought it might be nice to purchase something off your registry since I really don’t know you too well. I check store X. There is nothing under your name or your husband-to-be’s name. I wonder if I got the store wrong. I double check the invitation then check stores Y and Z. Still nothing. I check the little card again. “The happy couple is registered at stores X, Y and Z”.
I check with your relative/wedding planner to ask what’s up. She informs me that she personally sat there and helped you register for these wedding registries and instructed you how to include items you needed or wanted. Apparently, you never bothered. It would not be so bad if we had not done this two years ago with the baby registry.
Just an FYI-it is perfectly acceptable to not mention gifts at all on your invitations. In fact, it is proper. What is not proper or polite is to make your guests search three stores for your registry when you included registry information in your invitations but apparently never actually registered for anything.
By the way, you are probably getting a gift card to one of the stores (probably the one that starts with Wal and ends with Mart). It will likely be for less money than I was previously planning to spend. That is, unless I find a suitably ugly serving tray to regift.
