Okay bros and bronettes. I'm trying to fill up a damn wedding registry. I'd love to hear about the shit you got and love, and any off-the-wall suggestions that you are glad you put on there. We have a house full of shit, and I'm rabidly anti-kitchen gadget (fuck off, garlic press), so we're for being a little loosey-goosey on this whole deal. We're doing an Amazin registry, too, which is just a fancy wish list that you can add shit from any website too.

Any other bits of wisdom on gettin shit is appreciated.

Even though it is now long since gone, we loved our waffle iron. Used it a TON until we had a son with wheat and egg allergies.

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I have a feeling he's anti-kitchen gadget.

I put some bigger ticket items on there (TVs, etc) just so if someone wanted to surprise us they could. No one did, but it was a piece of advice someone told us to do.

I put a bunch of camping stuff on our registry and we got a ton. I found if you have relatives that dig something/hobby on yr registry, you'll probably get it. We have a pretty hiking/camping-friendly fam, so they ended up getting us a great tent and supplies.

But... fresh fucking waffles!

Damn dude. Pulled the trigger huh? Congrats!

Lots of good info here:

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Congrats on the engagement and pending nuptials, Cory!

[polarbearhug]

Of course!
Congratulations!

Congratulations Fu!

Tools.

Good knives and a honing steel.

This.

We went the Japanese Route and got Global Knives....6 years later and there isn't a day we don't love them and use them. I don't know if I could have justified the expense if I had been buying them for myself....which is why they made such a great registry item

Cuz you never know when you'll get enough of her.
(Ironically listening to "Priests and Paramedics" from Pedro the Lion)

Why did I just recently find out that Shun makes left handed knives? My whole life is a fucking waste.

Whoa. Cool!

Still love mine to pieces. Every single day they are a joy. I even love it when I get to resharpen them, which is about every 4-6 months or so.

Nice work. Don't fuck it up. I gave my thoughts on this topic in that Derris registry thread

This. I'd roll through Sears and register everything from a socket set to a pressure washer.

The best things we got are still:

Crystal Decanters
Large Serving Platter
Ice Bucket with antler handles
A huge crystal vase

If I had to do it over again I would have asked for a set of dishes, a set of glasses and a bunch of frivolous shit.

OK, I'll probably, wait, never, get married but even if I did I'd still find the whole idea of a wedding registry abhorrent. Why would you make your friends go out and buy off a list just cos you got married? It's like 'I'm Getting Married Therefore I Punish My Friends'.

I get that traditionally newly weds moved out of their parents houses and started a new life together in basically a bare house and it was a nice gesture for friends to contribute to the new household but that's not the case any more.

The whole modern wedding registry thing is fucking bullshit.

Again if by some miraculous set of circumstances I get married my friends only obligations will be to come to the pub and get drunk as fuck. I won't, I repeat won't, be twisting any one's arm for a fucking towel set or cutlery!

When I got married we registered somewhere I forget, but basically just as a favor to family members who barely know me and want to shop off a list. I don't think I even told any of my actual friends that we were registered anywhere.

I don't think it is really so much to rope your friends into buying you shit, but more to help out old Aunt Martha who you met three times when you were 11, but dammit she's gonna be pissed if she's not invited to the wedding and she will be horrified to show up empty handed or just give cash.

Thanks, y'all. Derris' link is a big help. I remembered it after I saw it, but I been wasting all my search energy on turntable recs.

What's some can't miss San Francisco shit? We'll have a car, and I love to wander, so we are planning on getting out of the city, too.

a flown in and well paid wedding DJ