Married.

Where are we registered?

Of course, a whole lot if not all of the people who read this will find out on their invitations. I guess we could put this info on the save the date email which we are going to have to send out because the invitations are STILL NOT DONE. I’ve finished the front, except I am still waiting to hear back from the lady about whether my graphic is big enough at 300 dpi; Annie is soon going to do the back. At this point, I don’t care what she does for the back. Map of the site? Doodle of all our cats? Recipe for veal with sweetbreads? Little tiny line that just says “(this page intentionally left blank)”? (How hilarious would that be?)

And once they ARE done, we get to wait like a month, maybe even two, for them to actually get printed and assembled. This is a far cry from my ambitious vision of sending them out four to six months in advance, but it doesn’t really matter. We have ordered and paid for the wedding rings, and reserved and paid for the site; everything else is just dressing.

Those are the bands. This is so not what I was going to talk about. We’re getting them about half as wide, because those are really wide. Birch symbolizes awesome things like writing (people used to use the bark for paper), and new beginnings, and fertility, passion, energy, growth, stability, and witchiness.

ANYWAY. Registry.

We registered first at Crate and Barrel, solely because we happened to go by there and discover that they were having little parties in February for registering couples. They promised us a free heart-shaped bowl PLUS food and music and those little guns that go “beep!” – how could we resist?

We thought they would be way too schmancy and expensive, but then it turned out there were a lot of things for seriously a dollar. So that’s okay. And we found and agreed on dishes in blue and burnt orange, which are our wedding colors!

We picked out silverware, too, since our current silverware is a very motley collection. That was way harder. We ended up having to go through all the store’s silverware and each pick out our two favorite sets and then compare. I think that the set we picked appeared on both our lists. I wanted ones with rounded wide handles that fit in my hand; Annie wanted ones that were smooth and looked quirky and interesting. (I was all for quirky too.) The funny thing, as she pointed out, is that whatever we pick – that’s what our kids will think forks and spoons look like. That will be their mental image of the Platonic fork.

Isn’t that crazy?

There are a few exciting things on there (a thing that whips your cream for you so you put in cream and it shoots out already whipped!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) and a bunch of things that will be Useful, which is what I think a wedding registry is supposed to be?

And then we created a second registry at thethingsIwant.com because it lets you put things on the list from all over the place – not just one store. That one has the Greatest Ergonomic Watered-Steel Etc. Knives Ever, because we need more knives, and a bunch of pots and pans, and the THERMOMIX. Which is the world’s most awemazing appliance. If you are trying to decide what knives or pots or appliances to get for your kitchen, you should just go look at our registry, because everything on that second list was RESEARCHED FOR HOURS AND HOURS. Because why be like “please may we have this pot” if the handles are going to fall off in five years?

TheThingsIWant.com is a pain to navigate, in my opinion – you can’t just click on the image of an item, you have to pick one of the tiny buttons underneath it that says “view” or whatever. But you CAN rank items in order of how great they are, which Crate and Barrel doesn’t allow.

So the bottom line is:
http://www.thethingsiwant.com/our_registry
and, I guess,
http://www.crateandbarrel.com/Gift-Registry/Guest/ViewRegistry.aspx?grid=4287570 (or go to crateandbarrel.com and type either of our names in).

We should pick a place where people can donate money, too. Equality CA?