What's the average amount of gifts you registered for?

I'd have at least one per household for the actual wedding. Then one per household invited to the shower for the shower. Inevitably, someone will gift cash for one or the other so all won't be purchased. We tried to pretty evenly do things under $50, things between $50-$100, then a few things over $200. We have 83 guests for 115 households but only because we didn't want excess things and I know my Italian family will give only cash. I don't think there is such a thing as "too much" as long as you won't be bummed if you get some stuff over other things.

I would say you could register for 2 gifts per invited guest and not have too much. We invited over 200 and registered for about 150 things just because we only wanted to add stuff we truly needed. Everything was purchased before the wedding. Most guests bought multiple things. The majority of people spent between $75-$150 on us with family members spending between $300-$1000 on gifts. I would say you’re definitely not asking for too much. Register for good quality stuff you truly need, not just cheap things because you’re worried about guests wallets. People want to get you nice things to start out your lives together.

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I gotcha!

Yeah his half is very Italian and asked that we put together a newlywed fund as well- although his mom did say she wanted to buy the vacuum (hurray!) which is our biggest ticket item at about 175$.

Yeah we have so many little items that it would have been hard to know who would buy what and at what dollar amount. However, with everything from Ikea, all the little stuff could realistically go together as one gift lol

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Thanks

We have a newlywed fund for house renovations and our honeymoon set up, so I think that plays into my mind as well.

But even adding everything up, I agree with you that we didn't register for too much since there's also that good ol "cash" option people like to do!

I registered for about 50 items between two registries (we will have close to 150 guests). I didn’t want to register for too much so the likeliness of getting things I really needed is higher!

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We aren't doing a newlywed fund nor did anyone ask us too. Some of our older guests (I think) will see it as tacky and I don't want to pay the fee to the company. We just want the full cash or check value. We just made sure to add luxury things like really nice sheets, really nice towels, etc.

View Quoted Comment We had everything purchased off our 3 registries before the wedding and at the wedding we received cash/checks. We received a pretty nice 5 figure sum. I think most people give physical gifts for the shower and cash at the wedding.

We registered for 250 items half of which are under $50. We invited 150 people. We’re not doing any sort of money fund and we don’t have much for a new household so we had to register for pretty much everything. Plus stuff we knew wouldn’t get bought but 20% off after the wedding is a nice discount so we added a few more things just for the discount after.

View Quoted Comment Oh nice! Where was that at- the 20%?

View Quoted Comment It’s actually at a lot of places that do registries now. Zola, bed bath and beyond, Amazon has it for prime members. I know there’s more. Zola was the first to do it and everyone else kind of followed suit shortly after. I made an amazon registry just for the 20% that I don’t even plan on putting on our website.

We're having a slightly bigger wedding and registered for 60 things. I thought it was too many considering I would really rather have just a few big ticket things, but Zola gives you 20% off after on anything that wasn't purchased for 6 months after the wedding. My thought is if we decide we really want it and it didn't get gifted, then at least we get it on sale.

I have 79 items on my registry with 117 invited guests. We didn’t do any money funds. Half the items are less than $50 and the highest ticket item is about $400. Don’t worry about the cost or asking for too much and just register for what you truly want. It’s nice to give people options and your friends/family may surprise you with their generosity.

View Quoted Comment Thanks I will keep what I have then. I feel confident in our choices, especially with having so many really low ticket priced items (like 2$ for a lot of stuff haha)