our wedding year: registry

A week or so ago, Rosie finally convinced me we should go ahead and start up our wedding registries. We had planned to set one up on Amazon and, because of her great love for the place, at Macy’s and a third place to be named later (probably Target).

In setting up the Macy’s registry we discovered they were holding a “Sip and Scan” event at Lenox this past Thursday. I didn’t even need to ask her if she wanted to attend. Once we got down there and signed in, they handed us a free tote bag (made by Victorinox so a decent quality item) with a bunch of flyers and ads inside along with a free wine bottle opener called “The Bunny”, clearly a knockoff of “The Rabbit”, but still better than anything we had at home.

Aside: The free gift item was particularly amusing for us. A bit over a year ago, before I moved in with Rosie, we needed a corkscrew at her place. So we set out to buy one. We couldn’t find one that wasn’t ridiculously expensive. We did finally find one, but ever since, anywhere we go, we find corkscrews, even in places that we looked before. So showing up for our first real wedding event and being given a free corkscrew? Priceless.

They then handed us a Palm-based Symbol barcode scanner (I’m a geek, I notice these things) and set us loose. After sampling some of the hors d’œuvres and a bit of aimless milling around we started scanning up a storm. OK, we didn’t go crazy with it, but got a decent amount of items registered.

At one point, I took a look around at the other couples and had the feeling of being in an exclusive club. All of the people there, as varied and unlike us as they may have been, are our peers in one very significant way. That’s part of why I’m going to try and be a bit better about blogging this year. This experience is completely new for me and, hopefully, something I’ll only go through once.

All in all, it was an enjoyable way to spend an evening.