Style and practicality
are two words to use when deciding where to register when you're getting married. My best Chi-town friend Rachel is getting married this October. They're registered at Target and Home Depot.
Does it get any better than that?
Cause when you think about it, who wouldn't love to be registered at Tiffany & Co., Fortunoff's, Saks Fifth Ave., etc? But unless your guest list includes Prince William and Paris Hilton, chances are you're going to get 20 toasters. From Wal-Mart. On clearance. I'm not saying that people are that cheap, they would just do that out of spite because you registered at the most expensive places on the planet.
Or maybe that's just what I would do. I digress.
Anyhoo, Rachel's lists had really cool and practical things. And the price range was enough to accomodate anyone's budget. Seriously: there's everything from a plasma tv to sponges for a George Foreman grill.
I hope that I will remember to have such practicality when deciding where I register (which will probably be sometime between the distant future and never, at the rate I'm going). I mean, when I did have fleeting thoughts about where I would register, I thought I'd just do so with a bunch of different places. But why do all that running around and confusing people when I just have to make one or two stops?
Thus the reason why it's good to have friends from the Midwest. When the delusional aspects of my Jersey girl mentality kick in, I always have someone who can bring me back to earth. And that same someone probably won't mind if, in that time between the distant future and never, I decide to register at the exact same places she did. I mean, it's like the most brilliant idea ever.
And I'll throw a few items from Tiffany's on the list. Just because it would be pretty frickin awesome to be given a diamond encrusted teapot as a wedding gift.
And it would be even better when one of my friends gives me a dollar-store teapot with rhinestones superglued to it. Because that's totally what I would do. I'd stick the $50 Target gift card inside.
Does it get any better than that?
Cause when you think about it, who wouldn't love to be registered at Tiffany & Co., Fortunoff's, Saks Fifth Ave., etc? But unless your guest list includes Prince William and Paris Hilton, chances are you're going to get 20 toasters. From Wal-Mart. On clearance. I'm not saying that people are that cheap, they would just do that out of spite because you registered at the most expensive places on the planet.
Or maybe that's just what I would do. I digress.
Anyhoo, Rachel's lists had really cool and practical things. And the price range was enough to accomodate anyone's budget. Seriously: there's everything from a plasma tv to sponges for a George Foreman grill.
I hope that I will remember to have such practicality when deciding where I register (which will probably be sometime between the distant future and never, at the rate I'm going). I mean, when I did have fleeting thoughts about where I would register, I thought I'd just do so with a bunch of different places. But why do all that running around and confusing people when I just have to make one or two stops?
Thus the reason why it's good to have friends from the Midwest. When the delusional aspects of my Jersey girl mentality kick in, I always have someone who can bring me back to earth. And that same someone probably won't mind if, in that time between the distant future and never, I decide to register at the exact same places she did. I mean, it's like the most brilliant idea ever.
And I'll throw a few items from Tiffany's on the list. Just because it would be pretty frickin awesome to be given a diamond encrusted teapot as a wedding gift.
And it would be even better when one of my friends gives me a dollar-store teapot with rhinestones superglued to it. Because that's totally what I would do. I'd stick the $50 Target gift card inside.
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