I personally do not like gift registeries. A lot of my friends tried to get me to have one for my wedding, but I refused. While I know it can be helpful in the sense that you'd only get what you need, it just seems so greedy to me, to make a list of things I want. I do know that people who do registeries are not necessarily doing it for greedy purposes, but for necessity, however, its not something I'm a fan of. I just felt like, "If I make a registry, its almost like I'm TELLING people to bring gifts on my wedding." Anyhow, I didn't do a registery, but I was worried about getting too many of the same gifts, and then having problems exchanging them, etc. We resorted to writing, "No boxed gifts please" in our wedding invitation cards. It worked great. We didn't have the trouble of carrying 200 boxes home after the reception. Close friends that wanted to give us a nice, special gift did so by bringing it home to us either the day before the wedding, or a few days after. The rest of the guests either gave us gift cards, jewelry, or cash. It worked great for us. With the gift cards, we were able to buy whatever we needed/wanted. We still have some...that I intend to use during the big holiday sales this season.