Wedding Registry Fun Part 3

Yes, the registry fun continues and you really can't beat the fun we had this time. Let me put some context to this event. I had Friday off because I work for Catholic Charities and my office was closed due to the Pope's funeral. So, I had an unexpected three day weekend. Vin and I decided to make that day off productive. We decided to visit Wesley Inn in Clifton to see if it is appropriate accommodations for our out of town guests and to finish off our registry.

So, I met Vin after work. He gets out at 1 pm. Well, when I met him at his house, he wasn't a happy camper. If anyone knows Vin, he is a moody guy. You would think he is hormonal if you met him because he can be crabby one moment and silly the next. We are not a good match when I am PMSing and he is moody. Yet, we have survived and tolerated our mood swings and so it doesn't get better than this.

Well, with his moodiness, I wasn't sure if this was going to be an enjoyable experience. Wow, was I wrong? Yet, back to that later. We went to Wesley Inn and checked it out. It was nice enough but we are still checking out some other hotels in the area.

Off we went to the Garden State Plaza. Well, after a bite to eat at the food court, we headed off to Macy's. Vin got a hold of the gun to keep him occupied. We decided to look at the bed linens first. Well, we had a hard time agreeing which one we wanted. If I liked one, Vin didn't like it. We went around about 3 times circling the bedding section to look at linens. This didn't make Vin any happier. There really wasn't one that striked our fancy but we were able to settle on 3. Vin started gunning them down. We had a hard time figuring out what is a sham so we decided to get some anyway and a sham stuffer, a euro sham stuffer as a matter of fact.

Then we went to get the towels. The colors and style that I wanted they didn't have. So, we settled for black and grey towels. We then went to get the luggage that Vin loves. Vin picked red luggage which is quite a change for Vin since he is basically a black, grey, and white type of guy.

Alright here comes the hard part. The china. Alright we don't know the difference from casual china, formal china, and everyday plates. We decided to get these rectangular plates (black and khaki colored) for everyday. Then we saw a boxed set of army green that would match our plates and we decided to add that as well. Don't know why but we did (and if you asked Vin, I am the one who made him do it). We also needed a creamer and sugar bowl because the everyday plates didn't have that. They had the small plates and the mugs and the bowls but not a creamer and sugar bowl. Well, Vin saw one that was a blue grey and gunned it. I didn't think it matched so I looked at another one and said that this matched better. He agreed but then we couldn't figure out how to delete the previous one on the gun. Trust me, the gun looked like a scientific calculator you would use for pre-cal class. It had a function button and everything else but a cosine and sine button. We finally got the handle of it and deleted the bluish-grey sugar bowl and creamer.

We were relieved to think that we were finally finished. We sat in front of the bridal consultant to get our final print. It must have been a slow night because we had two chatty bridal consultants pick and pull our list apart. These ladies were a couple of characters and they were able to get Vin out of his bad mood by pointing out the husband's duties in supporting the wife as she picks out the registry. They couldn't quite figure out some of our choices like a King size duvet when we picked out queen size sheets. Vin told them how I liked to hog the covers at night. Other bad choices were pointed out and Vin shifted the blamd on me stating that he was only responsible for the gun and I was the one who instructed to shoot at which items. Well, they schooled us on what we needed and they edited it accordingly. During this whole scene, we got invited to their staff ice cream party (as long as we wear their badges and blue or pink clothes); Vin got compared to one of the bridal consultant's silly 16 year old sister; and another bridal consultant told us her mini man doll story (one of those stories that you had to be there to understand). Vin went along with the bridal consultants' antics and instructed other grooms sitting around to escape their mad antics if they had a chance. It was a productive and fun evening at that.

And that evening might not be the last of the Registry Fun, either. The bridal consultants informed me that we might need to update our registry around September because our linens are seasonal. I bet you can see Vin's eyes roll when he heard that much. Also, I still might want one of the linens from Crate and barrel so I might delete the ones we picked. I haven't told Vin that, yet. Trust me, his eyes might not be able to roll back for the wedding. If you see him at the wedding with shades, you'll know why.