Phil & I registering…the picture is 100% candid 😉

Phil and I could not wait to register. We decided to register at Bed, Bath, and Beyond first. BB&B has everything and we thought our wedding guests would enjoy using their 20% off coupons to buy tons of presents for us. The one piece and best advice I got from my mother on registering was that always register for extra/enough stuff, most importantly place settings and serving pieces. I took her advice and we registered for a ton of stuff. I started the registering process by doing a TON of research. Phil and I picked the 3 places that we wanted to register and made a dry run at each place by checking out patterns and items that we liked. We decided on BB&B, Macy’s, and Crate and Barrel. Then I printed out the registry checklists from all three places, combined them and researched what the best products were on Amazon.com and Good Housekeeping.com and then found those products on the stores’ websites. For example, I would check out which toaster had the highest reviews on Amazon.com, which was the Cuisinart toaster and looked on BB&B’s website and if they had it I wrote it down. For the stuff that didn’t have reviews like place settings, flatware, glassware, bedding, and towels, etc. we just picked what we liked.

Me with my extreme list.

We had made an appointment to register with an assistant, Torrie at The Strip location in Canton. Torrie was super helpful because she told us where everything was, what the most popular items were, and she kept us on track. Phil was a little hesitant to register things that we already had or things that were too expensive. But after the 1st hour he was in the registering spirit and scanning a $140 trash cans and he was quoted saying, “we only get to register once.”

Phil scanning like a wild man

It took 3 1/2 hours for us to register. I could not even imagine how long it would have taken if I didn’t have my extreme prepared list. We were tired and hungry the last hour but we kept on trucking. One thing good about being tired the last hour is that I got Phil to agree on some girly stuff just because he wanted to get out of there. So check out our registry here: Phil & Alysse’s Bed, Bath, & Beyond Registry

This is our fancy place setting…it’s kate spade. Phil says I loooooooovvvee everything kate spade. Is that a bad thing?