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How to Get the Gifts You Want at Your Wedding. Whether you want money, a plasma TV, or an
amazing honeymoon, we’ll tell you how to get the wedding gifts you really want. You
will need Gift registries Discreet ways to spread the word and a personal wedding website.
Step 1. Figure out what you want most. These days, you can register for just about anything:
cash, mortgage payments, air travel, donations to your favorite charities, stocks, and so
on. Limiting the registry options makes it more likely that guests will comply--so stick
to what you really want! Step 2. Find an appropriate registry or registries by Googling “wedding
registry” and the word for whatever you want--“cash,” “travel,” “stocks,”
etc. Step 3. If you want all sorts of odds and ends from many different stores, consider
signing up with "www.myregistry.com":http://www.myregistry.com. It lets you create a master list of stuff
you want from multiple stores. Step 4. Get cash to pay for your honeymoon—without the
tackiness of asking for it—by setting up a honeymoon registry on a site like "thehoneymoon.com":http://thehoneymoon.com
or "travelersjoy.com":http://travelersjoy.com. Request specific honeymoon experiences you
hope to enjoy--and your guests will feel like they’re buying you something tangible. Send
a picture of yourself enjoying the gift with your thank you note. Step 5. Make it easy
for people to give what they can afford by letting them choose from a range of amounts.
Pick places that let your guests shop in multiple ways--online, over the phone, or in person.
Not everyone will be comfortable going online. Step 6. Register on a website that gives you
frequent-flyer miles whenever a guest buys something from your list. "Theknot.com":http://Theknot.com
gives couples one mile for every dollar spent on their site. Step 7. You’re ready to rake
it in, so enlist the help of close friends and family members in spreading the word about
where you’re registered and what you’re really hoping for. And do what many modern
couples do, and set up a wedding website, where you can nudge guests to your registry
in a classy way. Because the point of a bridal shower is to “shower” you with gifts,
your registry information should go on the invitation--but it’s considered tacky to
include it with the wedding invitation. Step 8. See if you can cash in the gifts made toward
something you end up not using, like an airline trip. Step 9. Before you sign up with a national
chain, check if gifts that were bought online can be returned to a local store. Many couples
secretly swap lots of smaller gifts for one large one. Did you know Americans spend $19
billion a year buying gifts from wedding registries.