Hooray!
Registering for gifts is weird. You feel like a rude jerk telling people what to buy…and then you resent it if they buy something that wasn’t on the registry and is very different from your personal taste. It’s confusing. Anyway, there’s this store in town called Akar that I really love, and we registered with them. Some of their stuff is outrageously expensive, but a lot of it is reasonably priced, too. We tried to mostly pick reasonably priced stuff. Nobody really needs a $300 watering can, sez me.
They got our wedding registry online. I really hope people use it; they have absolutely gorgeous things, just fabulous. You can’t actually buy online, but they have a little link on there where you fill in what you want to buy, and they contact you and can have it shipped. So it’s sort of like online shopping. You can go to the actual store, too.
It’s loads better than Target. Registering there was kind of frustrating, since they’re not very experienced in that process, but I really hope it works out, both for locals and long-distance people. If it doesn’t, well, we’ll probably just go buy the stuff ourselves.
ooh i love love that store.