I didn't get to cook this weekend, due to various bits of hubub, but I did raid Bed, Bath & Beyond for various toys (oh, the excitements that made up my life, let me tell you).
Included in the haul was a new pizza stone, a candy thermometer (goodbye, hairy episodes of plunging my fingers into syrup to determine whether we had reached the hard-ball stage) , a new salad spinner (ever since I broke my old one, I've been eating wet salads), and two new hard anodized pans. Woohoo!
4/13/2009
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What will be left to put on your wedding registry?
(If you don't register for stuff you want, people will give you things anyway and they will be hideous. We have so little space in our apartment that we registered for many fewer things than we had guests, which ended up in a lot of vases and truly awful sets of cake cutters and candle holders engraved with our names.)
We're not doing the registry as part of trying to discourage gifting (I know, it's not going to work), and intend to smile broadly and say thank you if anyone brings stuff. Maybe it's naive, but I'm trying.
I do recommend the Miss Manners-endorsed notice (either on a wedding website or sent on a card with the invitations) of what your post-wedding "at home" will be. E.g.,
Mr. Husband and Mrs. Wife HisLastName will be at home after [end of honeymoon date]
400 West Main Street
Somewhere, New York 12345
Then you can hope that any gift givers will mail the gifts to said address and you can write thank-you notes easily, maybe even ahead of the wedding. It is a thing to keep you up at night, trying to figure out who gave the various gifts for which the cards and tags slipped off and got thrown away by the hotel staff during the reception. Or at least it keeps me up at night; we still have blank thank-you card and a box with "MYSTERY GIVER?!" on our coffee table.
It's also nice so people will know for the future whether she's taken your name, if y'all are hyphenating, etc.
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