The 1 Registry Trick I Didn't Know I Needed

When Jeffrey and I got engaged, the first thing I wanted to do was start our registry. While I know it wasn’t practically the right thing to do right away, I couldn’t help but dream up what our future home would be filled with. I immediately started adding random things from Target and Amazon, only to realize that I had no clue what I was doing.

Once we organized a list of things we wanted to put onto our registry and started scanning items (more on that in a different blog), we were left with one question—how many items should we really have on our registry?

Then, we got the best advice that solved our question. You should put 2 gifts per person you are inviting to your wedding. WHAT?! Yes, I know it sounds like a lot. It sounded like way too many gifts at first, but then I broke it down.

You might have 1-3 bridal showers and your wedding. That’s quite a few opportunities for people to bring you gifts. Plus, when you do the math: You may want 8 dinner settings. That can be broken up into up to 56 items if guests bought them individually (which most likely won’t happen, but you get the idea). Some guests will buy you one large item, many small items, or might just give you a gift card/check for you to spend on an item. As a 2019 bride let me say this—it adds up.

It might seem like a lot, but trust me, you will want to put 2 gifts per person you are inviting to the wedding on your registry.

Let me help you out. Here is our registry: https://www.theknot.com/us/sarah-wilde-and-jeffrey-yates-nov-2019/registry

I will write another blog post about how we created and organized it, but for now I will leave you with this.

Add some more items, don’t add cheap items, and if you feel selfish—know that it is normal, but also please know that you are NOT being selfish. People want to buy you things. Let them love you through gifts.