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Great Style For Your Living Room

Let’s face it, when you are first starting out, you’re lucky if your new home has furniture in every room. Your first house, although magical, is often pretty piecemeal and low on funds. It’s difficult to look like you have an aesthetic all your own. Here are some suggestions to maximize your style on a budget:

Select timeless pieces that you can easily accessorize.

Don’t just focus on the couch and coffee table. Add small pieces to fill the room. A basic club chair offers the perfect reading space, especially when you can put your feet up on a lovely leather ottoman! You also shouldn’t just stick with solids, find versatile print patterns to add some…

Your Wedding Registry Options

Trying to choose the right registry for you? Here are the 3 most popular options:

A traditional wedding registry is basically any wedding registry in which you are registering for actual gifts. But these gifts can be as nontraditional as you want. Some couples choose to register for toasters, blenders, and throw pillows. Others prefer a list filled with guitars, video games, and family-sized bags of Cheetos. The goal is to pick items that will help you start your new life together. Department stores are the usual go-to for this, but these days you can also find wedding registry options at your favorite boutique stores and websites.

For couples who already have most of the necessary household items, honeymoon registries are a great way…

The Ultimate Wedding Registry Checklist

For better or worse, the standard registry list may no longer do. As couples continue to get married later, chances are they already have many of the standard registry items. Here is our modern registry checklist, one filled with all of the necessary traditional items, and also many new ones, for the couple that already has it all. Click on the registry link below for a handy-dandy printable pdf!

The Ultimate Registry Checklist

Our Favorite Registry Items

You’ve registered for the basics…you think. But your registry is looking pretty blah, pretty ecru, pretty nothing like you at all. Here are a few of our favorite registry items that you can use to spice up your registry and give it a more personal touch.

Bloomingdale’s has a ton of terrific registry items ranging from the demurely classic to crazy, bold modernism. Personally, I like their classic serving items best, such as this gorgeous crystal pitcher (what a stunner!) and this handy, but sweet, trivet.

If you want to build up your kitchen, go beyond just a stand mixer and try to invest in products such as high-quality knives, glass nesting bowls that make baking prep a breeze…

What You Can Learn from Crate and Barrel’s Wedding Parties

What can you learn from attending a Crate and Barrel Wedding Party?

1. How to register well. It’s just a wish list, right? Wrong. Ideally, a registry should be a reflection and cooperation of your personalities and lifestyle. If you register for a bunch of boring things that your friends just can’t see you using, guess what? No one is going to shop off your registry. Make sure that your list feels like you and that you have something in every price point for all guests to choose from. A registry expert can help you with all of this.

2. What exactly is that? Before a friend bought me onion goggles for Christmas, I had…

Design a Bloomingdale’s Registry: Warm Modernism

We’ve just launched the Bloomingdale’s registry on mywedding.com, so I’ve been browsing and collecting the things I’m particularly fond of—cool metals with warm woods, hand-hewn objects in clean minimal shapes. Let’s call it, the basics for a ”warm modernism” registry. (And it also happens to be my own personal home style.) All these beauties came from Bloomingdale’s. Create a registry of your own here.

Add all your registries in one place & make gift-giving easy for your guests with our wedding websites.

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