Registering: Round 1

Wow. Perhaps the most exhausting and stressful thing M and I have done yet for the wedding is registering. Some traditional gifts were easy -- we like this china pattern and have this many seats at a formal table, done -- and some simple things were excruciating -- we spent 10 min discussing the relative merits of one sheet color over another. Then there's the worry that we're putting frivolous or silly things down that may seem overly-material or unnecessary, and the sticker shock at vacuum cleaners. (Seriously?! That's more than my Cuisinart. There's something wrong here.) We tried to register for stuff we'd use, and use for a long time, without needlessly duplicating items we already have.

I've heard my cousin say that registering was the most fun she had in wedding planning. She must be CRAZY! I hate making a wishlist for gifts. If there's something I really desperately want, I'll save up and get it for myself. We've had to actually hold off on getting things we wanted this year, so that we could put them on our registry instead. Weirdness.

We'll take a look at the list tomorrow, and make adjustments as needed. We also want to register for some specialty stuff at another store, so we have another trip out into retail land to make. Maybe not this weekend, though. M will kill me if I drag him into another housewares store.

We also handed off the guest list and most of our invites to my amazing mother, who offered to address and mail all of them for us. This is a HUGE deal, even though we're having a relatively small wedding. I'm taking care of the friends list, which is less than 20% of the overall list, and she's taking on the rest of it.