Engagement Party

lilpie19 Posted: Jul 14, 2005 05:16 PM

Engagement Party

Is anyone registering for their engagement party? Our engagement party is in September and many of my friends who have had engagement parties tell me to definately register for our party, but do you think since it's 2 years away that it may be too earlier to register for gifts? I'm not sure what we are going to do. What is everyone else doing, I need some advice.

hmpena Posted: Jul 14, 2005 05:58 PM

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We registered for a few things for our engagement party. We were told that people would buy us things anyway, so we should register for some things that we want. I think you should register for a few things.

MayBride06 Posted: Jul 14, 2005 06:08 PM

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I think it is too early to register! most things will be discontinued before your shower! You can always find out where people get you gifts and they can always bring money if they have no idea what to get you!!

july06bride Posted: Jul 14, 2005 10:00 PM

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Posted by MayBride06

I think it is too early to register! most things will be discontinued before your shower! You can always find out where people get you gifts and they can always bring money if they have no idea what to get you!!

I agree!

Whatever you do dont register for towels/linens those get discontinued faster it seems

PegaLega Posted: Jul 14, 2005 10:54 PM

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I agree its too early, you might change your mind and things change every year. Register for a few things you KNOW you really want. HTH

TreAnt425 Posted: Jul 15, 2005 07:48 AM

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We didn't register. I figured that if I picked stuff out now, I would change my mind 10 times before the wedding. And we also have no place to really store all the gifts.

We still got a few gifts but mostly money

lilpie19 Posted: Jul 15, 2005 03:12 PM

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ok thanks! I'm not going to register. I probably will change my mind by the time we get married! I think it is too early too, it was just that some friends were telling me to when I orginally planned on not registering, so I wasn't sure. PLus we really need the money now...

DebsNY Posted: Jul 16, 2005 02:36 PM

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Happybride2005 Posted: Jul 16, 2005 02:45 PM

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we registered before our e-party. we got quite a few gifts from our registry

lilpie19 Posted: Jul 16, 2005 04:51 PM

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OK thanks. I think we may register for a few things that we know we need and really want. Not too many things. I agree that some people will want to buy gifts and registering will help them get an idea. We will be mailing invitations out soon, so we will probably look this weekend. I'll have to talk to Larry to see what he wants to do.

lilpie19 Posted: Jul 17, 2005 06:11 PM

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My FH and I registered at Bed Bath and Beyond today for like 15 items. That is all we are going to register for. I'm not going to put registry cards in the invitation envelopes, but a few of my friends have asked if I am registered, and I'll just let them know that we am. I don't want people to feel obligated to buy us a gift (but if they ask us, I'll let them know we are registered) and we didn't want to register for any more items because we weren't sure if we would still like them in 2 years. So we just registered for basic everyday things that we will need, because people have told me that some guests are going to want to buy us gifts, so we should register for a few things.

CKJ906 Posted: Jul 17, 2005 06:50 PM

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We registered for our eparty, we did the good china, stemware, everyday dishes and stuff like like...........everyones gift was from our registry it was great!

DebsNY Posted: Jul 18, 2005 08:03 AM

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that sounds best, mandy Laura yelled at me for not registering for enough at first At ours it seemed that friends seemed to buy stuff, where as family gave money.