Hi everyone! I am moving in with my soon-to-be in a couple of months, but we will not be married until middle of 2010. My question is…do we have a house-warming with a registry and the left over items leave for our wedding registry? Or do we ex out the whole house-warming registry all-together and leave the wedding registry…or visa versa? Please help!
I'm not registering for house-warming gifts…I was asked by a family member to give them my registry number for my wedding (which is already done) so that they can buy me something for my house-warming…so in reality - it's my wedding registry that is being used for both, so I thought…hmmm is that tacky?
Man, you people are brutal! I guess it is tacky to have a house-warming registry! LOL
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18 responses so far ↓
1 JM // Sep 15, 2008
i would skip the housewarming, i believe registering for gifts for housewarming is extremely tacky. and it’s not going to be like with a wedding where anyone is going to want to go out and buy you $50 gifts. and by 2010, you may have everything on your registry anyways so it probably won’t apply waiting that long.
2 Wewe // Sep 15, 2008
I got married a little of a yr ago. We didn’t do the house warming thing but we did make a wedding registry for our shower. Im glad we did because we got stuff we actually wanted instead of a lot of returns.
3 Gretchen K // Sep 15, 2008
People register for housewarming gifts?? I guess I am behind the times.
If it was me, I’d only register for the wedding.
4 amanda g // Sep 15, 2008
I agree I wold wait for the wedding. Have a house warming open house for all your friends and family but no gifts.
5 fizzygurrl1980 // Sep 15, 2008
No, do NOT have a housewarming registry! I’ve never even heard of such a thing. If you choose to have a house-warming party, people are not required or obligated to bring you a gift to that. Most people do bring a little something like a bottle of wine or a house plant, but nothing so elaborate as to require a registry. Save the registry for a little closer to the wedding, OK?
6 oy vey // Sep 15, 2008
You do NOT do a house warming registry. Uber-tacky.
A house warming party is intended to have friends and family share the celebration of your new home….not provide you with linens and gifts.
Your wedding registry will be the appropriate place for those things.
Until, 2010, suck it up and register for new then.
7 tacc // Sep 15, 2008
Is it a new house or one that you have bought together? If he was already in it before you got there, forget the housewarming party. If it is one that you two have acquired together, you could have the party but don’t register and tell people what to bring. Save that for the wedding.
8 Katiesmama11 // Sep 15, 2008
I would definately skip the housewarming! You dont want to seem like you are out for the gifts. We did not have a housewarming, but still recieved presents from close friends and family. If you want you can register for your wedding and then people will have a place to go if they CHOOSE to
You are smart to think this through. There is of course nothing wrong with you having a get together for people to come see your new place. Good Luck!
9 Brymom02 // Sep 15, 2008
Sure, have a house warming party but I wouldnt register for gifts. If people want to bring you something thats fine but wait for the wedding to have a registery.
10 Blunt // Sep 15, 2008
A house warming registry????
I've officially heard it all in this site.
Terrible!!
I've heard of tacky things, but this one takes the cake.
Seriously, do you really think that people are going to fall for that one? Everyone would be beyond offended by such daring and rude request… Come on, do you really think that people need to give you gifts because you are shacking up with someone????
Unbelievable
11 l y // Sep 15, 2008
do both. i knew a couple that moved into a house a year before their wedding. they sent out invitations that had their “house warming” registery on it. the gifts that weren’t purchase rolled over to their wedding registery.
12 ? // Sep 15, 2008
Yes, it is. You should not have a registry for your house warming party. People usually don’t give gifts at house warming parties but if they do it is a bottle of wine or something along those lines.
13 angeldust_599 // Sep 15, 2008
registring for housewarming gifts? wow, people will do anything for free stuff these days. Thats the tackiest, lowest thing I’ve heard on here so far. You do not ask people for housewarming gifts. furnish your own house or dont buy one. good lord!
14 iloveweddings // Sep 15, 2008
Hi. I don’t believe that it is proper (in my opinion) to do a housewarming gift registry. If you want to host a housewarming party, that is GREAT! But don’t register for gifts. The few housewarming parties that I have attended I DID bring a gift….but it was maybe a bottle of wine or a gift to a home center store.
Leave the gift registry to when you get married.
Congratulations on the house!
15 fizzy stuff // Sep 15, 2008
NO house-warming registry! That will come off as incredibly presumptuous.
You can do a wedding registry later on.
16 TotalRecipeHound // Sep 15, 2008
Ax out the house-warming registry. Save your obvious gift grab for the wedding.
17 Mrs Brown 8/2/08 // Sep 15, 2008
What ever you want. If people want to buy you a house-warming gift from your registry I think that is perfectly fine as long as YOU are ok with it. I think it is a generous thought for someone to give a housewarming gift.
18 Wedding Plannner and now B2B too // Sep 15, 2008
House warming- First, you do not register for a house warming! Second, you only do a house warming when you are both moving into a new (your own not rented)home together
Have a party is you wish but no registry.
Save that for the wedding
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