Wedding Wednesday.....Registering!!

We FINALLY finished registering on Sunday! Yay!!  We completed our final registry at Bed Bath and Beyond and we also have registered at Pottery Barn and Honeyfund. We still need to go and update our PB registry since we registered there back in the fall right after we were engaged, and to be honest, we aren't really registered for a lot of things overall. Being that we are both 29 and have both owned our own homes for about 6 years, we have A LOT of stuff; in fact, we will be selling and donating a bunch of things that we have too many of, i.e. sofas, beds, etc.

When we set out to register, we both agreed that we weren't going to add stuff to the registry just to add it. Ever since I've been in my home, I've made it a point to buy "nicer" things little by little. I adopted the idea several years ago that just because I was single, didn't mean I couldn't have nicer things. I even joked that after attending 13 weddings in the summer of 2007, that I was going to create my own registry so people would buy things for me, since I was spending so much $$ on all of their gifts. Ha! 

With all of that being said, we decided right away that we were going to set up a honeymoon registry. We thought it would be fun to allow our friends and family to buy us things to enjoy on our honeymoon. Being that we will be in Antigua for 10 days, and in Puerto Rico for a full 24 hours beforehand, we will have a lot of time to see and explore all the islands have to offer. There are tons of snorkeling tours, zip lines, sunset cruises, spa treatments, etc, that we would LOVE to enjoy while there. Since we don't need a lot of "things" we thought this type of registry would be a perfect choice for one of our registries!

For our other 2 registries, we resisted the urge to point and scan everything (except for the $350 Jimmy Buffet Margaritaville machine that I'm dying to have and that I just know someone is going to get us, right?! Ha!) and really focused on things we need for our home. We do need new towels and sheets for the master bedroom and we also need some new everyday dishes and a few small kitchen appliances & accessories, but other than that, that's really all we need. Honestly, what we need most are BIG things for the house, i.e. new windows, hardwood floors, a new back door, appliances, etc. My, I mean OUR (I have to get used to saying that) house was built back in 93 and I'm pretty sure nothing has been updated since then (other than the roof). Since you cant register at Lowes, we are requesting that once our registries are cleared out, that people simply give us money. I've never been big on giving money or gift cards to people; I LOVE to buy gifts, but for us, it's what we need most of in order to update the casa! I know the guy at Bed Bath and Beyond was about to kill me on Sunday b/c he kept saying "You're having such a big wedding, you need to put tons of things on there." And I kept saying "No thanks, we really don't this." Poor guy, I'm not sure that he realized he was dealing with Miss Sally Stubborn and that nothing he said or did was going to sway me into registering for that super deluxe pots and pans set when I just got nice ones a few years ago. Love his heart, he was sure trying! haha!

We have had fun dreaming of what our home is going to look like with all of our new items and we are excited for our showers to begin because let's be honest, who doesn't like opening presents?!

XOXO
The Bride To Be

P.S. If you're a blog follwer and havent registered for the Lucky Day Giveaway, be sure to do so by Sunday!!

Wedding Wednesday....To China or Not to China?!

We struggled with this very question and we decided NOT to china. After going out and looking at various prints and not finding anything that we BOTH loved, we began thinking about if it was even something we wanted to register for after all. Let's face it. We are 29, very much "on the go" and don't host big formal dinners for our family and/or friends where fine china would be needed.  We are both SO blessed in that both of our grandparents live in Lexington and our Memaw's still do the hosting when it comes to holiday and family dinners where the fine china is used.  It's been tradition for years and it will continue to be tradition, so we thought that our china would just sit in our cabinet for years and never get used.
Furthermore, our grandparents and parents have china, some of which we will inherit over the years. We figure by the time we will be the ones hosting the family soirees (many years from now) that we will have their china to use. I'm a very sentimental person and the thought of getting to use my great grandmother's china when hosting a big formal dinner is wonderful. How cool will it be to tell our children that they're eating off of plates that date back to the 30's-40's?! I LOVE the idea of china, and because it is such an old tradition, I feel that using our own family's china just fits right in with the tradition. Don't you?!
Now, just because we aren't registering for fine china right now, doesn't mean that we will be eating on paper plates or my current cheap Target pottery. We have decided that we are going to register for Pottery Barn's Great White Dinnerware

We chose this for a few reasons:
1. We love PB quality
2. We LOVE that we can get the plates with our last initial on them
3. We love that they're white which allow for us to dress them up and down. I feel like we can use these when we are hosting a dinner party or to eat spaghetti off of on a random Tuesday night.


My mom starting off our collection by getting us our large oval platter for a Christmas gift and we love it! I'm waiting to use it, along with any other of our gifts until after we are married. I just think it spoils the fun using them now!  I have been thinking about changing some of our smaller plates and some of the searvingware to the Emma pieces. They are white, but have small  raised dots around the rim in place of the monogram. I think it would be fun to mix and match and create some texture to our table setting. Here's a picture of them and please give me your opinion, add them in to mix it up, or not?! We haven't had any showers yet, so we still have a few weeks to get things changed up before our shower invites begin going out and people start shopping!

I just think the dots are so cute :)

Now, if I were registering for china, here are three of my faves!

Kate spade's boulevard  

Kate Spade's June Lane



Waterford Ballet Ribbon

XOXO,

The Bride to Be