Registering Your Wedding Online

We do everything online these days from paying our bills, buying airplane tickets, shopping, researching your new anticipated car purchase...in fact, surfing the web has become our new procrastination tool...and a way to break up the monotony at work.

Creating an online wedding registry should be no exception. In a world of hustle and bustle, who has time to go to an actual store to pick out few home furnishings? It's likely that you don't need another spatula anyway...and as exciting as it is to finally have matching tumblers or a garlic press, walking around the store scanning upc codes, can be time consuming.

Creating an online wedding registry not only gives you another reason to put off your project at work, it uses your time efficiently...although, if your boss is reading this, they may beg to differ. Its likely that you've collected enough stuff over the years and that you're quite satisfied with your mismatched bath towels...in fact, if you're a guy, you probably don't understand non stick pans anyway...and why they're so darn expensive. However, it's also possible that a new wok is almost as exciting as marrying the man or woman of your dreams.

Traditional wedding registries aren't a thing of the past but virtual shopping can be your best friend. Scheduling a time to carefully choose your items is a simple as logging in at home...or at work...and can reduce some of the hair pulling stress that wedding planning brings. What's even cooler is that your guests can send the gifts directly to your house which means that you wont have to give Aunt Louis the task of lugging all those gifts home after the wedding day. You might have to find something else for her to do, though, so she can feel apart of your big day.

If you're already fully stocked and can't squeeze another thing into your kitchen cabinets, Aftertheweddingday.com is an alternative to a traditional wedding registry...where no one gets ignored and activities can be chosen specifically for your lifestyle....because we can guarantee that as excited as he acts about your new meat dehydrator, he's not...a skydiving adventure or dinner out at your favorite restaurant is something both of you can enjoy together...and if you're having trouble scheduling time to hang out between work and sleep, choosing fun activities to do together that someone else has paid for, will give you the time you need to enjoy being married.

Best Wedding Gift

Sticking to items listed on a couples registry is the safest and easiest way to ensure that you're buying them the best wedding gift possible. Of course you want the gift you give them to be reflective of your 10 years of strong friendship, but keep it safe and choose an item from their registry.

Buying them the best wedding gift from their registry is simple if you remember one thing…if you can afford it, do your best to buy them a complete set of the items they've selected for their registry. There's nothing more annoying than almost getting the complete set of towels they've chosen or 5 out of 6 dinner plates.

If you really want to make your newly married friends happy, wait until they've received all their wedding gifts from their other guests and fill in the gaps. Double check with them after they've had the opportunity to sort through all their gifts and ask them what they'd prefer to have the most. Chances are they received some gifts that aren't functional without a full set…so they'll be thrilled at your idea to help them out!

Appropriate Cash Gift

So we've all heard that giving cash breaks the rules of wedding gift-etiquette and is sometimes even considered down right rude. I've personally never heard anyone complain, but perhaps there's a certain etiquette to follow to ensure that you're giving an appropriate cash gift. You definitely don't want to be that guy if for some reason your friends getting married are of the mind that giving cash is a little too impersonal. Here are a few ideas to ensure you're giving an appropriate cash gift. Perhaps you know that your friends are going on a honeymoon to Cancun and you know they'll love surfing lessons. You've done your research and you know that lessons cost $100. Instead of dropping $100 of cash into an envelope, bust out your crayons and scissors and get creative. Cut construction paper into the shape of some waves and a surfboard, for example, and attach the $100 with a message that reads something like: ¨Thought you'd like to spend your honeymoon learning how to surf!¨ This way your gift is very personal and looks like you put some thought into it…and if your friends decide that they could really use some extra cash for a car tune-up, your $100 will really come in handy.

If you don't have the energy or time to spend your Saturday afternoon Martha Stewart style to jazz up a cash gift with your scrapbooking materials, simply include a nice card with a well thought out personal message with your cash. It's always wise to address the cash and make some suggestions for how they can use it. Even if you did run to the ATM machine on the way to their wedding, it'll look like you spent some time thinking of them.