I agree with you. Your wedding day should be a very happy day. It’s when you start unrealistically expecting the skies to open up and the birds to sing your name like some sort of delusional fairy tale is when the trouble start.
So my dream of having 1000 guilded emus pulling Walter an I in from the sky on a winged chariot isn’t going to happen?
Bummer.
You could probably manage a thousand gelded emus piled on you and Walter.
But keep in mind that big weddings aren’t for everybody. I didn’t particularly enjoy mine, because I’m a shy person who dislikes being the center of attention (when I am the center of attention, I keep thinking “I’ll screw up, can’t screw this up…”). If I had it to do over again and it were entirely up to me, I’d have had a very small wedding- private ceremony with immediate family only, then go out to a restaurant to celebrate. That might be preferable for someone who doesn’t like being in the center of attention. It might be profoundly unsatisfying for someone who does.
No matter what you do or don’t do at your wedding, somebody’s going to view something as less than satisfactory. My mother in law was disappointed that we didn’t follow that odious and childish new “tradition” of smashing cake in each other’s faces. If we had done it, my mother would have been disappointed, since she can’t stand that either. If you’d had a sit-down meal, I’m sure somebody would have been dissatisfied with the table you had them sit at, or something.
You have to accept early on that, even if you had an infinite budget, you couldn’t make everybody happy with all your decisions at your wedding.
“With god as my witness, I thought emus could fly.”
Members of the Guild of Emus? The trouble is, they demand union rates, and that’s probably outside your budget.
Assuming she’s registered at The Bay, they don’t have special “registry pricing.” They just go with their standard every-day overpricing. 
I read somewhere (possibly on the Dope) that smashing cakes in each other’s faces is a fairly reliable indicator of a marriage that is doomed. You did the right thing. 
I have told Walter that his chance of being forgiven and ever getting post-nuptual poontang is greater if he shows up for the ceremony wearing his hockey uniform than if he tries this stunt.
Lucky for me (well, him) that he also finds it disgusting.
My aunt and uncle practically had a cake FIGHT…but that was at a family picnic we held for them after the fact…since they got married at the JP, with only one or two witnesses. Does that count? (Said family picnic involved sneakers and shorts)
Oh, and the BEST Etiquette Hell stories are the ones where the person who sends them in are the ones committing the faux pas! Am I right, or am I right?
Okay, that was funny.
Uh oh…
“Symptom 1: Loss of sense of humor”
As to the OP,
I wouldn’t bat an eye over a $2000 refrigerator these days. I’ve seen mattress sets on registries that ran that much. I once saw a baby comforter set on a registry that was approaching $1000.
I still wouldn’t have liked it and would have :rolleyes:'ed at it, for what that’s worth. I remember my mom telling me when I was about 7 or so about a wedding she went to where the groom accidentally smeared some icing on the bride’s face when feeding her the cake, and the bride retaliated by smashing cake in the groom’s face. I remember thinking, “I’m more grown up than that now”. So, when I got married 20 years later, anything resembling cake smashing was absolutely out of the question. We didn’t even feed each other cake, because we’re both klutzy and it might have turned into something like cake smashing inadvertently.
That’s not a bridezilla. This (second letter in this Ask Amy column) is a bridezilla:
ETA: If you think your friends or relatives should be postponing major life decisions (getting married or having children would be two excellent examples) to avoid overshadowing Your Wedding, then guess what, you’re a bridezilla.
Several hundred more examples of Bridezillaism can be found at etiquettehell.com
Great Jumping Jehosephat! Are you kidding me? When I got married, the most expensive item on my registry was $200. I didn’t get it, which was totally fine with me. When I had a baby shower, I think I put a swing on there for $120, and when I opened it at the shower, I was astounded. I cannot fathom spending $1000 on baby bedding. Are there people that do? Besides the Beckhams?
More to the point: alice, I wouldn’t necessarily think you were Bridezilla. I’d just think you were overly optimistic.