Our Bridal Registry

After reading Shopaholic Ties the Knot (by Sophie Kinsella, which by the way, started my addiction to this chick lit series), I thought that doing my bridal registry would be a walk in the park. At first it was. Adrian and I started at Regalong Pambahay, where you can find a lot of very good items to accessorize your home. I felt like a class-A shopper where one doesn’t look at the prize tag anymore… just point your finger on the item that you want and your personal shopper would jot it down in the list and have it delivered in your home. I just hope that my guest will actually buy those items that I chose. But of course, not all that I want for our soon to be home was included in the list. Adrian reminded me that our (would be) apartment is just small, so space and size of the items should be considered. So I just picked out things that would actually fit in our apartment (with his approval of course). Even so, we left the store with delight and excitement.

Afterwards, we headed to SM Department Store. We surveyed first the items that we like to include in our list so as to save some time. We found this nice sofa bed and dinner set. To our dismay, we were advised by one of the sales assistant that their Bridal Registry was already scrapped so time ago. WHAT?! I can’t believe what I was hearing. Is this true? We went to the customer service to confirm it and its true. They no longer have the bridal registry service. Now, what are we gonna do? We tried to look for the store named AREA in Megamall but we couldn’t find it, so we just went to Glorietta.

Adrian and I were both tried already since we walked around Megamall in search for the AREA store and not to mention the tour we made around the home department of SM, we decided to take a break and watched the movie Fantastic 4 at Glorietta. The movie was okay and the actors were alright but I was expecting more fight scenes. After the movie, we went to Rustan’s and checked out their items. They have a bridal registry but we are apprehensive to register because the items are expensive. We are worried that our guest might not buy there because of this reason. So we left Rustan’s and headed to Powerbooks to check out some books. We stayed in the coffee shop and read some books while waiting for the 6 p.m. mass at Greenbelt.

After the mass, we decided to go back to Rustan’s so we can already finish our bridal registry. The personnel in the Bridal Registry office informed us that we have the option to choose our own gifts or we can just make a checklist of what we want and the guest can buy anything in the list that are within their budget. There was a spark of hope. At least we don’t have to impose to our guest to buy expensive gifts that are out of their budget. And the good thing is that, if we get duplicate gifts, we can exchange it with a Gift Certificate equal to the amount of the returned item and buy a different item. And so Adrian and I registered at Rustan’s. We were also given a 10% card exclusive for the Bride and Groom.

Hayy, finally we are done with our gift registry.