Wedding Help

In the past, I’ve done several articles on the dangers of having your wedding registry at certain stores.  My warning on some of these stores has been to some of the horror stories that I’ve heard of either continuous bad customer service or even a rotten return policy. Thus far, I haven’t really offered up any good stores with which to have a wedding registry, and it just kind of hit me that I should really start talking about which store I went with for our wedding registry, and how it worked out for  me. There are some great locations to get do your wedding registry with, and I chose to have a Bed Bath and Beyond wedding registry. Let me tell you how it went.

Opening the Registry

Around the time that my husband and I were planning our wedding, it seemed like every spare moment was filled with some kind of activity. If we weren’t at work, then I was doing wedding planning, going for a run, working at our church, or getting ready to pack up my stuff to move after the wedding. My husband’s schedule wasn’t any better. So when we found ourselves with an extra hour to spare, we decided to be productive and visit our local Bed Bath and Beyond to set up our wedding registry. Honestly, I didn’t even think about having to set up an appointment.

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When my husband and I were doing our wedding registries, it never occurred to us to register inside of a shopping mall. We don’t really have a shopping mall around us, and the one that we do have is pretty pathetic when it comes to the kinds of stores they have. Plus, we just don’t really like going to the mall. But, it seemed all growing up that every wedding our family went to, the bride and groom were registered at Dillard’s and had expensive china patterns picked out and silver serving sets, and that just didn’t fit the kind of things that we were going to use, or our style. Now I know that things have changed from when I was a kid, and that department stores aren’t the only place to have your wedding registry, and that wedding registries can be as varied and unique as the couple themselves. I was doing a little research on some of the department stores that have wedding registries, and found that Macy’s wedding registry isn’t really thought of all that highly. Let me explain.

I visited their website and poked around a little bit for information about getting a Macy’s wedding registry started. One plus they totally have is that you can sign up for their registry online, and I believe once you do that, you can add items to your wedding registry straight from your computer. Personally, I’d rather be in the store looking at the item, but sometimes you can’t always get out and do that. Also, they have a great wedding registry checklist that you can use to make sure you’re not forgetting anything while doing your registry. From formal china to casual china and everyday dinnerware - they don’t leave anything out. There are lot’s of Macy’s around to make it easy on your guests, and they offer different bridal bonuses that you can take advantage of as well, such as wedding websites and other online tools to help aid your wedding planning.

But then I started looking around on the Internet to see what people were saying about having a Macy’s wedding registry, and from what I understand there is a lot of disappointment in some pretty important areas.

Customer Service - Many couples have complained that they were rudely brushed off by sales clerks, and told to come back and make an appointment when there was no one else working on a registry at that time.

Returns & Exchanges - Many couples have also complained that when you try to do your returns without a receipt (and face it, many wedding guests will not attach their receipt), that Macy’s will only give you credit for the lowest price on that item from the last 6 months, despite the fact that they have in their records the actual price that was paid. So you’re potentially losing a lot right here.

I understand customer service depends on the store you visit, but there was an awful lot of complaints about it - from many different sources. There are already so many hassles and problems when it comes to planning a wedding that you really don’t need any more hassles and problems with your wedding registry. Plus, having to handle the returns and exchanges once you get back from the honeymoon is hard enough without having to haggle and fight with a sales clerk over fine print. They’ve already made a fortune off your wedding registry. My opinion from what I’ve seen, unless your family and friends are avid about attaching gift receipts, it may be best not to have a Macy’s wedding registry.

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Wedding registries are a great way to tell your guests things you need and would like for your new home. When preparing to create your registry, depending on your situation, it may be better to register at several different places, both nationally for those out of town guests, as well as local stores. Most stores have some type of wedding registry program set up, but if not ask to speak with the management and they will usually work with you to create something to help you out. Also, more stores have online wedding registries that you can sign up for as well. For the couple first starting out, below are some of the basic things to remember when creating your wedding registry.

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