Gift Registry Service to AVOID

Huh, all the US invites I've ever received have had the registry info in the invite and that's what we did here, too. I've never heard otherwise at all.

I think it's a regional thing.  Down South (or at least in my neck of Eastern NC) you'd NEVER find registry info with the invites.  The church ladies would come to your house and beat you over the head with their handbags if you did that!    

While I was planning, though, I spent CONSIDERABLE time at www.theknot.com, and found plenty of brides (particularly midwestern) who were perfectly comfortable with putting the registry info in w/ the invites.

I personally would only put the registry stuff with shower invites.  That's a more blatant ploy for gifts, so it feels more appropriate to me!

BALMERHON!!!!!!!!!!!  Your wedding is soooooooooo close!   

Sorry, didnt realize it was a regional US thing as well. Never got an invite with registry info in my life here in NY. Never would put one into our invites either. Whatever blows yer skirt up ! 

FWIW, I was told by my manners OBSESSED mother that it was in extremely poor taste to put registry info. in the invitations, and so started sending them out without. But Jamie came home one day and said he was sick to death of everyone asking him what we wanted/where we had a registry and why on earth had I not put it in the invites!!!??? So I started putting it in there, but I still feel sort of weird about it.... So now I just don't know what's "right" these days!

Oh, and NYUK, as far as I know John Lewis does charge immediately on purchase and then send us everything later. I think that's how they justify not charging for shipping? Regardless, they've been fantastic and I honestly can't recommend them enough. The only little blip was someone who wanted to bring the gift to the wedding party but the JL she went to didn't have the item in stock and so forced her to have it delivered.... Not even a big deal as we were too drunk the night of the party to even deal with presents! LOL.

Just an update for those of you wondering.... it would so far appear that none of our guests have been charged for the gifts they have purchased. Everyone also seemed to be waiting until the last minute, too, so only about 7 people had done anything yet!

Oh, I'm sooooo glad that you haven't had anything go horribly, horribly wrong, uncomfortable emails notwithstanding! Honestly when I saw that article about the Gift Registry my heart just sank for you!!!

And balmerhon, almost of our guests waited until the week of the wedding! I was talking to one of my best friends a couple of weeks before and she asked how the list was going and I was (rather embarassingly) SO sad that basically nothing had been bought (hey, it's the ONE time in your life that you can completely without reservation ask for all of the stuff, no matter how expensive, that you want! LOL. And one greedy thing that I'll add is that the John Lewis people told us we should register for a few more "expensive" items as most brides underestimate what people spend on wedding gifts, and I thought they were crazy, but as it turns out they were right and we should have!)

OMG, balmerhon, you must be getting SO excited!!!!  And I can guarantee that your makeup will be unbelievably gorgeous! Even people looking at our snapshots (not even the "real" pictures) have been telling me how good mine looked..... 

I post on Hitched.co.uk and a lot of the folks over there have been talking about how horrible The Gift Registry was for weeks now, and evidently some of them called Watchdog and were also in the newspaper about it. 

The consensus on there at the moment for that sort of one list but multiple stores thing seems to be to go with Wrapit. 

In CT it is acceptable to put the registry info in the shower invites, but not the wedding invites.

it is a totally regional thing.  I'm just happy people mostly bought off of them.