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Top 5 Wedding Gifts to Add to Your Gift Registry If You’re Moving Abroad

Gift Registry

Weddings can be one of the most important times in your lives. So planning a wedding will be one of the most important tasks you ever do. That’s why it requires a lot of time and energy. Today, gift registry ha also become an integral part of wedding planning in the west but it still has a long way to go in India. A gift registry will help you to get the gifts that are actually useful and also your guests will get the satisfaction of gifting something useful. But if you’re moving abroad what CAN you add to your registry?

Gift Registry
Gift Registry

Here are the top 5 things you must add to your gift registry if you’re moving abroad

#1. Gift Cards for Brands available there

If you’re moving abroad, you can add the gift cards of the brands available there. Your guests can contribute how much ever they want an you can use it to buy whatever you want etc. For example, if you’re moving to the U.S., you can add gift cards of brands like Target, William-Sonoma etc and use it to set up your home.

#2. Ethnic stuff you’ll definitely take

When you’re moving abroad, you’ll definitely take things that reminds you of home. There’s no question about it. So, just add the things that are important to you. For example you can add pressure cooker, pooja thali, a few cultural decor items etc. to your gift registry. You’ll anyway have to buy them, so might as well add them to your wedding registry.

#3. Travel Essentials

If you’re moving abroad, everyone knows you’ll have a good amount of traveling to do. So, to make it comfortable, you’ll definitely get some items. So why not just add them to your registry? From essentials like trolleys to lux items like silk eyemasks and a memory foam neck pillow, you can add anything and everything.

#4. Cash

Cash is one item that will invariable be useful at any given point. It has no expiration date and you can use it as and when you want it. You can buy new stuff for your home with the cash, pay your wedding bills, use it for your honeymoon or you can also save the money. It’s all up to you.

#5. Charity

If you’re moving abroad, you can probably start off your new life together by doing something good. The best you can do is spread the love among the people less fortunate than you. So add some charities to your gift registry and truly make a difference.

5 Reasons Why Creating A Gift Registry Makes the Most Sense

Everyone knows weddings are a huge deal in India. With the industry worth over 50 billion dollars and only showing signs of growth, why wouldn’t it be a huge deal? People spend so much money to have a perfect wedding ceremony. I feel more than the couple, the focus is on providing the guests a day to remember! So I’m pretty sure that the guests would like to show their gratitude by giving you gifts that you’d use or like.

If you’re looking for more reasons to create a registry, just scroll down!

#1. The Economic Affair

As mentioned earlier, people spend a lot of money on weddings. So, when you’re starting a new home instead of splurging again you can add all the things you require to start a new home in your registry and your guests can easily contribute towards or buy the items for you.

#2. Spread the Cheer!

In a registry you need not only add things. You can also spread the joy by adding charities to your registry where your guests can also contribute towards them and make the occasion worthwhile. What’s a better way to start a new life than helping others? It also encourages your guests to do a little good deed.

#3. Ask and You Shall Receive

There is so much faith behind the words ” Ask and you shall receive”. So why be shy to ask your friends and family exactly what you want? They are the people looking to gift you something that you’ll remember them by and gift something that’ll make you truly happy. So create a gift registry and help them out a little.

#4. Two Birds with one stone

Creating a gift registry gets you exactly what you want. You don’t have to worry about recycling gifts that you don’t like or spend money again to set up a new home. On the other hand, it also takes away the stress from your guests who are second-guessing themselves over the gifts. Most of the guests will want to gift you something memorable. So there’s no harm in creating a registry and giving them a hand.

#5. Wast Free Wedding

A wedding registry is the embodiment of a waste-free wedding. Weddings produce hundreds of pounds of waste. A great way to ensure that at least the paper waste is contained is by creating a wedding website and a wedding gift registry. By creating one there wont be any gifts that’ll go to waste.

I do understand that creating a wedding gift registry in India has a lot of Social Stigma attached to it. But these reasons are exactly why people shouldn’t hesitate in creating one. Many people think it’s going against the traditions and culture. Well, as the saying goes ‘New doors are not opened by old methods’, only by employing new methods can the couples make their wedding sustainable.