Registry Regrets - What were your biggest registry challenges?

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The first two points I can get as people trying (misguidedly) to be helpful, but that last point made my jaw drop! That's extremely rude. If someone is saving for something already, you giving a gift of money just means they get the goal faster...I think they missed that very simple point.

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The last point about a savings account is so rude. It would be hard for me not to tell people to butt out of our business!

We went to The Bay and had a fun afternoon with the scanner thingy! The biggest challenge was and is finding things in a mid-range price point. Put a bunch of kitchen gadgets on that are $20-30 each and then everything else seemed to be over $150... even if a couple wants to spend $150ish it would be nice if they could pick out a couple of things. Nowadays it seems like a formality as well when we would totally be fine with gift cards or money so we can make those bigger purchases on our own time.

Trying to explain why we don't have a registry to older family members. Every time we tell them our reasons, they have an answer back to why we SHOULD have a registry.

1. We already have home stuff --> You could use the registry to upgrade certain items;

2. We don't want to travel with physical gifts --> Just have it delivered or pick it up at the store;

3. We'd prefer money to put towards a down payment on our first house --> That's what savings are for, don't you an RRSP or savings account?

That last one just makes me wanna scream and cry, tbh.

Our biggest challenge was just making a registry. Almost everyone wants to give us money for a down payment on a house but some of our older guests refused. Problem was also that we only have a one bedroom apartment currently which is fully furnished already so we don’t have room for anything nor do we need anything else. So we put little things on there that we could store in our storage unit for a bit but we didn’t see a lot of things that we wanted that badly so it took us hours upon hours to make a registry and we only had 19 things on it!
Now (2 months before the wedding) we are looking st getting a bit bigger of a place so we have gone through and added to the registry but initially it was so difficult

Are biggest challenge is figuring out what to register for. We are in the process of looking for a house, so it's hard to know exactly what we need. We've also been together for 6 years and lived together for 4 1/2 years so we've accumulated a lot of this stuff. We registered for the basics and a new set of dishes (our old Ikea set is looking ssaaaaadd). The consultant said we don't have very much on our list and to try to add more, but we just don't know what!!

Since we don't have a registry:

My FH was set on The Bay, which we both regret now. Everything we wanted was out of stock, everyone was seeing different items on our registry, and not even ALL of the items we chose.

We both have different styles when it comes to household items and decor, so finalizing the items on our list was tough. But we did it and both chose things that we can both enjoy!

For sure the store!! We still haven't picked one!

I'm sure it will be fine tracking who to thank for what with me being so organized - but we need a store picked first!!

100% the store. My mom has forced me to register for my bridal shower (like, super insisted) and it wasn’t until after we sent out the invitations and told the guests about it that we realized it’s going to be a lost cause. Now I have my sister (who people are RSVP-ing to) tell my guests that I’m registered at “so and such” but that the selection isn’t very good. It’s so embarrassing. On top of everything, my mom now admitted that she was wrong.

It was trying to find stores that were local with registries. We wanted Canadian tire so bad as it has a lot of stuff we want, but we had to go to few different places instead. Biggest issue we had was what was too much to register for. He didn't want to register for anything for really over 20-40 dollars. There was some pots we really need and around $150, but I know some people could just go together if wanted. He doesn't realize how much people give at weddings because I am the one who buys or gives money lol I normally give around $100 depending on couple. plus do the bridal shower of $100