So we went registering this last weekend — well, ok, we went registering Sunday night.

For those of you who’ve never been registering, I’ll give you the quick and dirty. You walk into wherever you’re going to register, let them know why you’re there, answer a few questions and then they set you loose in the store with a scanner.

This is where the fun starts.

Alice and I started a bit slow. We really didn’t know what we wanted to ask for, how much of anything we wanted or where we were going to put all of the new things we might eventually possibly get. To start, we looked at some crystal glasses, couldn’t decide if we liked them, couldn’t decide if they were of good quality, wandered into home section, looked at some towels, felt a bunch of towels (one must feel towels to determine quality) and eventually picked some after much debate.

By this point, we were both a little annoyed, I was kinda hungry and Alice had that, “I wanna get outta here” look in her eyes.

Then something happened…it was the miracle of registering. We started to worry less about stuff, started having a bit more fun and got down to business. An hour later, we’d scanned many, many different things, had traversed the store a couple of times and even returned to the crystal glasses and put them on our list (turns out they were nice, we just weren’t into the groove when we’d first looked at them).

Time was running short at Macy’s (we went there around 5pm, and we had to be at Crate & Barrel by 7pm), so we wrapped it up.

By the time we hit Crate & Barrel, we felt like old pros. We smiled and nodded as they did their introductory speech (it was a registry-only party, so we were only there with other couples, a good deal, if you can find it) and I was eyeing the free food (I still hadn’t eaten.

When they started giving us a guided tour of the store, Alice and I hung back and peeled off from the rest. We then proceeded to add many more, equally important items to our registry. Once we did a quick whirlwind around the store, added some fantastic items and ate lots of their free samples we were ready to roll.

It was finally dinnertime.

So our site is almost ready.

This site has taken us…well, a little while longer than I think we had thought it might take, but overall, we’re both pretty happy with how it’s turning out. (That’s right, I’m going to take the liberty to speak for Alice on this one).

We went through a few different drafts of sites before finally settling on this design and layout. Though, that’s not too surprising since we both work with websites everyday – you’d expect us to be opinionated, and we were!

With this hurdle almost out of the way, we’re going to then start tackling each of the tasks we have left before the wedding day.

Check back often, if nothing else changes, at least I’ll try to put up a new entry to entertain everyone out there.