Registry Card or Not?

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Registering is a standard part of today’s wedding.  Yet people who memorize rules still insist that doing so is tacky.  Or, often, that you can register, but you can’t tell anyone unless they really push you.  I personally am fine with little inserts (most of the time listed as Pew Cards at the printers) being enclosed with the announcement which say where you’re registered–just a simple,

But that’s iffy–as I always say, “No one will notice but your mother and all her friends.”  It’s Boomers and older who most of the time play the “it’s tacky” card.  And while I am personally fine with those cards, I go out of my way to never let a bride enclose a 3rd party card–like the ones from Target with the big red target on them. 

Anyway, I’m here today to present a third option, one I use constantly with every bride who is savvy.  Enclose a card that says

That’s it.  A wedding website gives you an excuse to put registry information, direct links, shipping info, maps, pictures, histories, stories, everything…  It’ll look like a complete family website, but the secret thing “funding” it will be your registry info…  In fact, colinandbethany.com at one point had 8.5 MILLION links pointing to it on google!  And it all started as a registry and maps site.  If y’all want a wedding website, just holler and I’ll build you one.  Seriously, I can build you a teensy but legit one for under $50–only because I’ve done it so many times.  I’ll post later on that topic, but for now, don’t use the 3rd party cards, feel free to print some simple ones professionally, and feel encouraged to use the same card instead to announce a registry wedding website.

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