Firearms for wedding registry?

[BREATHER]

Hell yeah, go for it..... Most weddings and wedding stuff is lame. GO non-traditional... I hope you and your lady get some good shooting stuff...

[drift_g35]

Thanks guys, Instead of replying with quotes for everything, If we did a traditional wedding with silverware and china and crap, we would be wasting peoples money. We have everything we need. We have already registered at REI since we are both outdoorsy people. We are also going to set something up so our guests can help pay for our vacant land we are buying to have the wedding on. I will see what I can find as far as firearm related registries but there are site that you can have an item for $5000 and lots of people can put $50 towards it, and then you just get the cash when everything is all over.

[ghettodub]

It's your wedding, do what and ask for what you guys want! It seems that so many couples cater their weddings to other people instead of themselves.

[generalmeow]

It is tacky to tell people what kind of gifts to get you, like they owe you something. "You're bringing me a gift, and these are the gifts that are acceptable." "Oh, I'm bringing you a gift? Isn't that for me to decide?" I don't call my my mom when my birthday is coming up and tell her what I'm thinking she should get me for my birthday. She shouldn't get me anything. She doesn't owe me anything. The fact that she wants to celebrate the day of my birth, because it's important to her, is enough of a present.

It should be the same for a wedding. The fact that they want to celebrate with you when you get married is what it's all about. It's tradition to bring a gift because typically and historically you're young, poor, just starting out, and you need help getting set up on the right foot. If you already have everything you need, I don't see that as an excuse to start asking for hobby stuff, or even money. I would never ask my friends and family to fund my hobbies or give me money, unless I really needed it.

I've got one buddy left who hasn't gotten married, and I will be very disappoint if he asks for any hobby stuff or money at his wedding. I will call him on the phone and say "screw you, you give me money and fund my hobbies you greedy fucker", and then I will bring no gift to his wedding.

My mom had a friend who is about 50 years old, is wealthy, just got married for the 3rd time, and had a wedding registry with all this cool stuff on it. Disgusting, if you ask me. I don't even think my mom has talked to her since then, because of the wedding registry.

Edit: It's your wedding, and you can do whatever you want. But you asked, and I guarantee that some people will think less of you for doing it. There will be whispers.

[drift_g35]

It is tacky to tell people what kind of gifts to get you, like they owe you something. "You're bringing me a gift, and these are the gifts that are acceptable." "Oh, I'm bringing you a gift? Isn't that for me to decide?" I don't call my my mom when my birthday is coming up and tell her what I'm thinking she should get me for my birthday. She shouldn't get me anything. She doesn't owe me anything. The fact that she wants to celebrate the day of my birth, because it's important to her, is enough of a present.

It should be the same for a wedding. The fact that they want to celebrate with you when you get married is what it's all about. It's tradition to bring a gift because typically and historically you're young, poor, just starting out, and you need help getting set up on the right foot. If you already have everything you need, I don't see that as an excuse to start asking for hobby stuff, or even money. I would never ask my friends and family to fund my hobbies or give me money, unless I really needed it.

I've got one buddy left who hasn't gotten married, and I will be very disappoint if he asks for any hobby stuff or money at his wedding. I will call him on the phone and say "screw you, you give me money and fund my hobbies you greedy fucker", and then I will bring no gift to his wedding.

My mom had a friend who is about 50 years old, is wealthy, just got married for the 3rd time, and had a wedding registry with all this cool stuff on it. Disgusting, if you ask me. I don't even think my mom has talked to her since then, because of the wedding registry.

Edit: It's your wedding, and you can do whatever you want. But you asked, and I guarantee that some people will think less of you for doing it. There will be whispers.

If anyone thinks less of me at my wedding then I was the one who made the mistake of inviting them. Its 2013, things have changed a little since the last generation. I dont know anyone who lived with each other before getting married in my parents generation, which is why it was customary to receive household items. Now its more common to live together before getting married therefore acquiring more household stuff.

[generalmeow]

Then you better not invite anyone to your wedding, because I'm certain you could think of something to offend every one of them, therefore proving they were never your real friends.

[generalmeow]

Lots of guests will appreciate that you have a wedding registry. My best friend from high school got married in MS, I had never met his wife, I hadn't seen him in 10 years. I went on their target gift registry and picked a couple of things out. But they were simple household things that they asked for. Like $10-20 items. It screamed "we don't want much, but if you're desperate for ideas here are some simple things that we will use."

If they were asking for new ghetto fabulous rims for his car or something I would have been very put off. If I could contribute $50 towards the new ghetto fabulous rims, I would have been even more put off that they even thought about that.

[Aloha_Shooter]

Lots of guests will appreciate that you have a wedding registry. My best friend from high school got married in MS, I had never met his wife, I hadn't seen him in 10 years. I went on their target gift registry and picked a couple of things out. But they were simple household things that they asked for. Like $10-20 items. It screamed "we don't want much, but if you're desperate for ideas here are some simple things that we will use."

If they were asking for new ghetto fabulous rims for his car or something I would have been very put off. If I could contribute $50 towards the new ghetto fabulous rims, I would have been even more put off that they even thought about that.

^^ This. Sometimes -- especially when you don't know half the couple really well -- it's very helpful to know what they want and also know that no one else got them the same thing (think about weddings where they happy couple get 5-10 toasters but none of the other stuff they wanted). In the previous example, what would drive me up the wall is a registry for someone on the third wedding, not the fact of a registry at all ... I know someone getting married a second time and who had a live-in for an extended period between engagements. Yeah, he's getting good wishes but not a hell of a lot else for this next wedding.

[brutal]

It is tacky to tell people what kind of gifts to get you, like they owe you something. "You're bringing me a gift, and these are the gifts that are acceptable." "Oh, I'm bringing you a gift? Isn't that for me to decide?" I don't call my my mom when my birthday is coming up and tell her what I'm thinking she should get me for my birthday. She shouldn't get me anything. She doesn't owe me anything. The fact that she wants to celebrate the day of my birth, because it's important to her, is enough of a present.

It should be the same for a wedding. The fact that they want to celebrate with you when you get married is what it's all about. It's tradition to bring a gift because typically and historically you're young, poor, just starting out, and you need help getting set up on the right foot. If you already have everything you need, I don't see that as an excuse to start asking for hobby stuff, or even money. I would never ask my friends and family to fund my hobbies or give me money, unless I really needed it.

I've got one buddy left who hasn't gotten married, and I will be very disappoint if he asks for any hobby stuff or money at his wedding. I will call him on the phone and say "screw you, you give me money and fund my hobbies you greedy fucker", and then I will bring no gift to his wedding.

My mom had a friend who is about 50 years old, is wealthy, just got married for the 3rd time, and had a wedding registry with all this cool stuff on it. Disgusting, if you ask me. I don't even think my mom has talked to her since then, because of the wedding registry.

Edit: It's your wedding, and you can do whatever you want. But you asked, and I guarantee that some people will think less of you for doing it. There will be whispers.

I think I just found, in this thread, the first person ever to bother putting on my ignore list.

The shit that comes out of your mouth is unbelievable.

[generalmeow]

I think I just found, in this thread, the first person ever to bother putting on my ignore list.

The shit that comes out of your mouth is unbelievable.

I think there's something wrong with your medulla oblongata then. You're disgusted with a person saying "don't be greedy"?