Registry idea

I had to postpone my weddimg twice due to covid-19. We are now having our wedding next year. We moved in our new home 9 months ago expecting to be married a few months later. I held out purchasing items for the home so i could put them on our registry. Now that we have to wait another year to have the wedding, I am starting to need alot of the items on my registry and want to start purchasing them. I know our guest will want give gifts but I am afraid by next year I will not need any typical registry items like toasters and blenders lol. My mother in law paid for our honeymoon so there is no need for a honeymoon fund. We have several unfinished rooms and a unfinished basement that we want to complete after the wedding, I was considering doing a "basement construction fund" similar to how people have honeymoon funds. This would actually help us out verses asking for items we dont need and will sit in storage....I am hoping that when people come visit us in the future they will know they played a part in getting us started as we want to make our basement a place where we entertain our family and friends when they visit.