The Wedding Parties

I sort of have been putting registering for shower and wedding gifts off since Jon and I don't know where we are living yet.  I thought it would be difficult to pick things out if I didn't know what style of place we would be living in.  Well, once I got started, it was not hard at all, haha I don't know why I thought creating a wish list with basically endless possibilities would be difficult - I mean I have been shopping since I could walk, I rock at shopping, and when you get to scan a whole bunch of things and don't have to pay for anything at the end - what could be more fun?! 

I started at Macy's with my mom to pick out all of my "nice" things - like china, silverware, crystal, serving pieces - etc. I knew that I wanted to pick out china that had a neutral pattern on it so that no matter where our dining room is or what it looks like it would always match.  I took my mom with me to register for all this stuff because I consider her a seasoned-vet in china and serving pieces - you should see our basement and 3rd floor at the lake house - its honestly shocking that we need to rent anything for the wedding with all of the entertainment-ware that she has. If I didn't care about all 220 guests having matching plates, we wouldn't need to.  Once I picked out all this stuff, I started getting ideas of what other types of things I needed/wanted...and after that it was very easy to pick out the rest of the stuff on my registry.

Since I knew Jon trusted my judgement/could care less what our china looks like it was just easier for my mom and I to do that part together.  It was probably a good thing Jon wasn't there - because I could just hear the comments he would be making "what do you need 3 sets of wine glasses for?!"  However, I did want Jon to be a part of the registry process in some way, shape or form. 

Crate and Barrel does this really cool thing called "The Wedding Parties" - on the first Sunday of every month you can "RSVP" to attend a wedding party from 9-11 am in any store - the store is only open for couples who are registering and they serve breakfast.  I thought, OK - Jon can come with me and help and at least he will get breakfast out of it.  Here are some pics from our adventure this past Sunday.

I think his favorite part was testing out the couches - even though that was not our purpose for being there.  No, just kidding, he was actually very helpful - I picked out what we need/want and he got to use the scanner.... and if random things that seem a bit odd happen to have ended up on our registry....you now know why.