Both a Registry and a Cash Fund

Honestly just list links to each without extra verbage. Guests are pretty intelligent and can figure out that they are both options.

Don’t do a cash fund. It’s not perceived well by most. If someone wants to give you cash, they will. I’d remove your registry, if anything and then you’ll only get $$ from whoever does decide to gift.

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Yeah I just don't want them thinking were asking for gifts AND money. But you're right, I'm sure they know what we mean.

View Quoted Comment Agree that many do not view cash funds in a positive light as many do not give cash for any occasion. However if you do not have a registry, you will receive gifts do not want and cannot return. Better to give guests a registry list of what you want and need.

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It's just going to be a very small list because we don't want or need a lot of anything lol. I only have 42 items for a wedding that's supposed to be 200 people. So I would hope people would think "oh we'll just give a gift card or money" lol.

We got mostly money for our wedding and we had 2 registries. I think cash is the common/standard wedding gift. Showers are for physical gifts. So if you have a small registry keep your bridal shower on the smaller side. I wouldn’t have or list a cash registry (they take a percentage of what you get, why give some one a portion of your gift?!)

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Well that is one thing, my shower will be small so maybe I will actually just leave it at about 40-50 items on our registry. That leads me into my next question though, would I put the registry link on the wedding invitations?? Probably not right? If we would only expect physical gifts for the shower (the link would be on the shower invitations). So we would leave that out on the actual wedding invitations right?

View Quoted Comment Registry info is never ever listed on the invites. The info is given verbally only when guests ask, which they will. Or you list links to the store website's registry links on your website (withjoy.com and wix.com are more user-friendly than WW).

We did this! We did a Honeyfund and two small registries we linked to from that site. When asked, we told people to go to Honeyfund and they could see the registries there. Worked perfectly!

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Etiquette would be to never put registry Information on invites.

Yeah i think that wording is fine. you can also just opt for gift cards to places you know you'll definitely use

I had terrible luck with a cash fund... literally nobody did it lol I had 30 items on my wedding registry... because like you, we literally didn’t need anything! We even had a saying to lighten the load when we move, please consider a gift card or cash fund - something along those lines. Nope, just received stuff we didn’t want or need or didn’t even register for! Lol It was a flop. Maybe you will have better luck!

Yes I was concerned as well. Some people don't like to shop. So we have 2 options for cash. We made a wedding cash app and a gift card option. Plus 3 registry that I will be deleting probably. Just seem like to much. We are already receiving cash gifts. And our wedding is not here yet. Lolol so just do what works for you.

Dont have a cash fund. Have just a small registry and people will put it together and give you cash. Cash funds are rude.

We live overseas in my fiancé's country with the plan to move to the states in the next year or two after the wedding. We don't live near any family, so they're all traveling to us for the wedding. We don't currently have anything household wise that's worth shipping, and want to keep it that way until after we move. So we've just included verbiage, "We know many of you have made a considerable effort to be at our wedding, and your presence is a gift in itself. As we are planning to move to the states soon, we kindly ask that should you wish to gift a gift that it is in the form of cash or a gift card from one of the following stores, which we will set aside for when we start our new home."

Are you doing like a honeymoon registry? If so people don't mind putting money to it especially when you are well established living on your own and really don't need any house items. However doing an actual cash fund may be seen as if you are having a fundraiser

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Guests attending a wedding don't want to feel like you are just inviting them for the payout. They want to feel like you truly want them their because they are important to you.

Try Zola - you can have a small registry and a honeymoon fund.. get the best of both worlds!

Plenty of couples do cash funds now on their registry, so it's perfectly fine in my opinion.

Do you already have a wedding website or plan on having one? If you don't, Zola is great! You can link your existing registries from other stores onto it, but also add cash funds as well! No extra verbiage needed, if your guests see the cash fund option, and want to contribute to that as their gift, then they will.

The hard part of honeymoon fund/cash funds is a lot of those companies take a small percentage of whatever the person is giving when you do them online.

A small registry is best, because people will know to give cash if they don't want to buy off the registry.

IMO, people that are going to give you a gift you didn't register for are going to do that anyways, because they want to be unique/special in the gift they give to you.

I don't recommend the cash fund.