Tip - Be True To Your Style

Just because your getting married, doesn't mean that you have to choose solid colored china patterns and all matching dishes. Stay true to your style, and if it's an eclectic mix and match of fun patterns or crazy polka dots and stripes, stick with it! You can also mix and match your crazy collection with some solid colors to add a little extra playfulness to a formal dinner. You can update your collection with some quality pieces. Check out Kate Spade's home collection with a limited display at her website, with the full options available at Bloomingdales, Macy's, Dillard's, or Bed Bath & Beyond.

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Tip - Set Your Table Before Registering

Check out Brides.com/setyourtable to see a potential table setting including chargers, dinnerware, drinkware and flatware. You can see how they go together before registering. Once you've decided on a pattern, it's as simple as clicking "add these items to my registry" to have them included on your Bloomingdale's registry.

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Tip - Choosing China

When choosing a china pattern or even everyday dishes be sure to discuss your options with a registry consultant at the store you're registering at. You want to make sure that you're not selecting a pattern that will be discontinued soon or out of style in a few years.

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Trend - Gifting

Brides magazine reports that 73% or couples prefer money or gift cards. Just think, as a guest, it could save you from heading to the store to purchase their gift and wrap it.

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Tip - Register Where You Like

Don't feel like you should only register at one or two places to simplify the process. Guests may be coming from all over and could appreciate the ability to buy online or pick a few items from different stores to create a special care package. You could also sign up for a universal registry site, like Wishpot, that allows you to register for items all over and combines them into your Wishpot, allowing guests to view all your registered items at once.
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Wishpot's Newest Features - Contributions!

Our pal Jaime, over at It's A Jaime Thing created an awesome inspiration board (below) to highlight the newest features available over at Wishpot for registering! You can register for contributions to help you purchase a home, a new car, etc. Guests can also make donations towards your honeymoon fund to help you enjoy the experience with a few added perks! If you prefer to ask guests to donate to your favorite charity, you can set that up too. Thanks to Jaime and the innovative Wishpot team!Get over to get your Wishpot started!

Tip - Rare Registry

Register for items that you will appreciate and radiate your sense of style and personality. Ask for items that can be inscribed with your initials or stitched with a monogram. This can also be a post wedding gift task if you prefer to handle it yourself. Many local engravers and some retailers will work with you to get your design perfect. Friends will be jealous when they come for a fantastic dinner and see your personalized dinnerware!

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Take A Trip

My husband and I are truly very fortunate. One of our wedding gifts was a trip to NEW YORK. And, now I completely understand why people confidently wear their I Love New York shirts. We chose to delay the trip for awhile due to work schedules, weather, etc. This flexibility allowed us several months to enjoy being newlyweds and get work time off. We also knew that right around the corner, a fun trip was waiting. It was like having 2 honeymoons, really. Our friends (who live there and gave us the gift) were amazing. They allowed us the opportunity to go to fabulous restaurants, great sites, fun attractions and the top of the Trump Tower (and, yes the view is quite spectacular, not to mention the other aesthetics). It was so nice to be able to have one on one time with my husband too. If you like to travel, I definitely suggest trips as gifts. Sometimes groups of people enjoy going in on a large gift, so I recommend picking a fun destination. I don't know how I managed to get soooo lucky in receiving this gift because I hadn't even thought of it, but I will tell you, I can't imagine my life having not gone on the trip. We got to get away for two honeymoons?? What a great first year of marriage!!

Dynamite Site - Wishpot Wedding Registry

Check out our recent mention in the Wishpot wedding blog! This website is a great way to create a registry from anywhere and store it in one place. No more picking and choosing from one store, choose from all your faves! Wishpot rocks!
Check out our Wishpot. What would you put in your yours?

Couples Left Without Wedding Day Gifts

Recent brides and grooms are planning to stage a protest against, WrapIt, a gift registry firm who never followed through with the delivery of gifts and donations to approximately 2,000 couples, leaving around 100,000 guests without delivered gifts or refunds. According to Sky News, " Some of those brides and grooms will be wearing their wedding dresses and suits to march to HSBC headquarters this afternoon in an attempt to persuade the bank to fulfill the wedding list orders. WrapIt is blaming HSBC for its collapse because the bank is withholding its credit and debit card income."

We found this statement from a previous officer of the company, "I am now writing to you as the ex-MD of Wrapit plc, as I predicted in my last email. However, I am still very committed to trying to achieve the best possible resolution for Wrapit couples in this awful situation.

I had a meeting with the Wrapit plc receivers, KPMG, on Monday morning during which they informed me that they had met with HSBC and agreed that they would not fund Wrapit to deliver your gifts to you, but, instead, were going to go down the ‘refund the gift purchasers’ route favoured by the bank - regardless of the angst and inconvenience and embarrassment that this will cause to 2,000 couples and 60,000 gift buyers."

While WrapIt is a UK based company, this can happen anywhere. Be certain before registering with an online gift service that there is some sort of refund policy in place in the case of sudden closures.

Trend - Mixing Up the Registry

Many soon-to-bes know what they want, but the problem is that their wish list is from 12 different stores. Well, Wishpot.com is a new wedding registry site that lets you add your wish list of items to a single registry! Grandma Donna doesn't have to go searching through the world wide web for 3 different registry sites to find the right gift for you; it's all here. There are also sample registries from those popular wedding blogs that we love so much. Trend provided by Dynamite Weddings
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