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Where do I include my wedding registry information?
I've done gift registries at a few different stores. I was wondering if it was appropriate to include that information in the save-the-dates, the actual invitations, or not at all?
9 Answers
- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
Only include the information in your bridal shower invitation. It is in poor taste to include them in the wedding invite. However, if you do a wedding website, you can have the info posted there. The reason fro the above is because a shower is given on your behalf...therefore the people throwing you the shower are asking for gifts...aka shower the bride with gifts. The wedding is different. It is informal to send the gift request in the wedding invite because you are asking for gifts yourself...does that make sense.
If people do not know where you are registered they are to contact your family and friends.
Also, holding off on putting a registry in your wedding invite encourages more people to give you money and checks!!! :) No one likes to show to a wedding with a big old gift.
- CC 9/24/11 BrideLv 61 decade ago
My answer is the same as the other ladies. I learned a while back that you don't put registry info on invitations nor save the date. It's up to your close family to pass the word around that you are registered somewhere. As the other answers say, you can put the registry info on your wedding website and then put the wedding website on your save the day.
If you are having a bridal shower...yes, you can put registry on THAT invitation.
so many rules...so little time...
- AnneLv 51 decade ago
The registry shouldn't go out in any of the official invitations or save the dates from you. Call it outdated, but the etiquette rules say this is a big no-no.
If anyone is throwing a shower for you, they can put the registry information on your shower invite.
Otherwise the word is meant to just spread by word of mouth...your friends will ask you where you're registered, your relatives will ask your mom, etc.
If you're doing a wedding website its fine to post the information there.
I've been to so many weddings, I just know to pull up the main places people register and look until I find their registry.
Congratulations on your engagement!
- BluntLv 71 decade ago
Not in the save the date
Absolutely, categorically NO on the invitations!!!!!!!!!!!!
The appropriate ways to convey the registry information are 1- Wedding website 2- Bridal shower invitations 3. Word of mouth.
You can put your wedding website on your save the date : ). To get a free wedding website, go to www.theknot.com
Good luck
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- Anonymous1 decade ago
i was wondering the same thing... i was told the best way to let people know is by word of mouth (get your family to inform people when they ask about getting you gifts) or to make a wedding website (you can do this through theknot.com, and several other places im sure,) and list the places you are registered on the website. on your save the date card you can put "for more wedding details please visit *website here*"or something of that nature. on the website you can also add other things that you think guest need to know, but isnt appropriate for the invitations, such as attire that is expected, or that there will be a cash bar, and so on. just to make sure everyone knows, i will probably do both. congrats on your big day.
Source(s): bride to be - 1 decade ago
Not at all. You can put it somewhere on a wedding website and include a link to your wedding website somewhere, but never put registry info on save the dates or wedding invitations.
- ?Lv 51 decade ago
Traditional etiquette says you NEVER include the name of where you're registered because this makes it look like gifts are required, or that you're telling people to buy you stuff. It states that where you're registered should travel via word of mouth through your wedding party and your parents.
Modern day practicality says it's easier for you, your wedding party, and your guests to include a small slip of paper with the information when you send out the invitations. Sending it with the save the date cards isn't a good idea because it will likely be lost or forgotten, most people don't buy the gift until they actually have the invitation and know for sure they can go anyway.
Etiquette also says that you MUST have the invitations written by hand by hiring a calligrapher. It also says that if you invite an unmarried couple who lives together you must mail each of them an invitation separately, among other ridiculous outdated practices... so take wedding etiquette with a grain of salt-- do what works for you.
- SugarCatLv 71 decade ago
YOU never mention it at all. Don't put it on the invitations or save the date card! You friends and family can spread the word, if asked. You don't want to look like a gift-grabber.
- La Vie BohemeLv 71 decade ago
Not at all. This info is passed through word of mouth or if you are asked.