The Registry Challenge

With football season over and March madness quickly approaching, that leaves me a small window of opportunity to have Matt’s full attention for one very important wedding task: registering.

February is the perfect month to register. It’s an indoor activity a time when there’s not too much else to do. As soon as March hits, the weekends will be busy again with trips and events, so for now, during this winter lull, we’re finding joy in spending other people’s money. If you’ve checked our registry over the past couple of weeks you’ll notice it has more than doubled in size.

Most stores provide registrants with a clicker, which looks eerily like a gun, to add items to their list. It’s often hard not to get a little trigger happy, especially at the end of the day. I believe it was Matt who added a blue and gray, handheld zebra mirror that I luckily caught and deleted from the list. Sometimes the slightly less sane couples, such as Matt and me, also use the registry gun to play man hunt in the bedding section of Bloomingdales Home. It’s all in good fun.

Our registry trip yesterday made me feel like I was in an episode of Supermarket Sweep. Michigan Avenue was slammed which made parking a nightmare. After circling the streets for way too long we gave up and parked in the Bloomingdales lot. Luckily Bloomingdales will validate for up to three hours. But at 3:00:01 you’re dropping serious cash for your spot. I had an ambitious plan for the day—fine china, luggage, towels and chatchkies—and three hours to accomplish my mission. Bring it on, Bloomingdales.

Nothing could stop this bride. I pointed and clicked my way through every ounce of the store. I got it all done, and returned my gun to the registry department with time to spare.

Now I can sit and stare at my registry and slowly wait for the “still needed” column to dwindle down. The exciting news is that as of this morning someone had purchased my 10 piece All Clad dish set. The frightening news is that now I’m going to have to learn how to use this stuff. I’m also left to ponder whether I will ever really need place settings for 16. I think I might have been trigger happy…