The winter wedding season is upon us, and with holiday shopping blurring our brains wedding gift ideas should be as painless as possible. While the bride and groom may have an endless wedding wish list, choosing a gift can be as simple as a single click. Make your wedding shopping experience as simple and satisfying as possible by giving an American Express gift card, a gift that’s guaranteed to satisfy.
Available in a variety of values, the American Express gift card is a convenient way to show you care without having to include the receipt in your gift box. After all, what’s worse than getting home from the honeymoon and realizing you have 3 teapots, 2 toasters, and an endless amount of china? Give the gift of not feeling broke after the most expensive day of their lives.
Also great for saving room in your suitcase for destination weddings!
Did you know you can add items beyond traditional household gifts to your Wishpot wedding registry? Search for tickets to an event from any online website such as ticketmaster.com. Use your “Add to Wishpot” button to add them to your registry.
For pricier tickets, you can enable contributions so multiple friends or family members can help send you to the event. The same goes for tickets to other sporting and cultural events for your honeymoon!
Here’s 3 event ideas for your registries:
1. Concert tickets:
2. Sports games:
3. Theater/ballet performances:
Toasters may not make memories, but once-in-a-lifetime events will. Be sure to add tickets to your favorite band, sports team, or performance to your wedding registry. It’s fun and easy to do with the Wishpot tool!
At Wishpot we often feature items listed on our wedding registries. We love being a part of the registry planning but it’s also fun to see how the big day came together. Since we love our users and we also love weddings (obviously) we decided it was about time to feature a few weddings from couples who registered on Wishpot. Here are a few pictures sent to us by Wishpot couples on their special day.
Starting from the East Coast, this Seattle couple chose a destination wedding using the beautiful Westhampton background for their nuptials. Destination weddings are a growing trend and allow you to get married outside year round!
The gorgeous photography is courtesy of Anthology Photography
Our next couple was married in Maine.
Photos courtesy of Meryem Yildiz
Lastly from the West Coast, this Seattle couple stayed home and wed in Seattle.
Photos courtesy of Raishawn Wickwire
Don’t they make great couples? If you’d like to be featured as a Wishpot couple, send us pictures of your wedding day!
From the @Wishpot Team
-Kelly
Contrary to popular belief, a wedding registry isn’t always about kitchen items and candles. A man also needs a place to cook. Where he can argue with friends about when a burger is ready to flip. This item is known as the grill. A sacred item for men to congregate around and a great thing to ask for in your wedding registry!
Image Courtesy of Amazon
The Weber Summit S-650 is the perfect grill for any man. It offers a 6-burner natural gas grill that burns at 60,000 BTU’s. It can also smoke anything that you throw its way and the stainless-steel exterior will look great in your backyard.
Image Courtesy of Amazon
Next you’re going to need the grill set. Cuisinart’s 5-piece Champion grill set should do the trick. These are made from stainless-steel and include a spatula, tongs, basting brush, fork, and cleaning brush.
Image Courtesy of Corky's BBQ
Finally, you’ll need sauce for the meat and you need to look no further than Corky’s BBQ in Memphis. Arguably the best BBQ joint in Memphis, they sell all of their sauces online so you can throw them right in your wedding registry.
Although registries often are filled with scented candles and decorative pieces think about throwing some grilling supplies in as well and it won’t go unappreciated.
There is a typical list of items that couples usually include on their wedding registries; this includes luxury linens, dinnerware, and other household goods that will inevitably become part of a couple’s new home.
But what if the couple already has everything for their home?
How does a couple create a registry that will still be useful for them?
This modern couple should consider using their wedding registry to wish for gifts that they can use for the wedding itself (there are of course many things couples want to buy for the biggest party of their lives). We did this for my own wedding and couldn’t have been happier. Our friends and family generously bought a few of our wish list items and loved seeing their gifts in action on our wedding day.
Here are a few examples of gifts that would be perfect for a wedding:
Makeup for a fresh wedding look:
Found at Bare Escentuals for $60-$63
A vintage chic birdcage veil
From One Little Dove’s Etsy shop for $68
A floral hair fascinator
From DonnaElla’s Etsy shop for $21
A classic pearl necklace
From Little Bit of Pretty’s Etsy shop for $90
A dashing tie
$30 at Royal Silk USA
A Flip camera to capture videos of your most cherished moments
$199.99 MSRP for the Flip Ultra HD
Gifts can of course be selected from any retailer across the web and placed on a couple’s Wishpot registry. It couldn’t be any easier or more fun. Happy wishing!
Wishpot brings you some modern twists on your typical wedding registry items! If you’re having trouble finding what to add to your wedding wish list, Wishpot wedding experts are to your rescue with their ideas and thoughts of what to pick!
In need of some new kitchen supplies? Wedding expert WeddingWire Megan suggests this awesome KitchenAid 5-Quart Artisan Stand Mixer! It is a new and easier way to make all those delicious meals and treats you’ve been craving. And if you are in need of a light and fun read, WeddingWire Megan also suggests a great book for newlyweds “Party Basics for New Nesters”. You can find this book at Amazon.com.
If you are trying to become more “green”, wedding expert Weddings Fresh recommends these colorful organic bath towels from Pottery Barn. With these towels you’ll be saving the environment while still adding some extra spice to your new bathroom!
Expert Bliss Weddings has great ideas on how to find items that put a new twist on the traditional registry item. Bliss Weddings recommends these adorable Inside Out champagne glasses. There is no doubt that these would be a hit at any party. And last but not least, every kitchen needs a cheese grater. Bliss Weddings suggests this inventive new grater with a cheese cellar to keep you from making a big mess!
For more wedding registry gift ideas or to create your own wedding registry go to www.wishpot.com/weddings!
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I didn’t consciously intend for this week to take a such a modern twist, but here we are! It’s Wednesday, time for a little Kitchen Registry inspiration.
Style: Adorable yet practical fun in the kitchen
Palette: bubblegum pink, sky blue, delicious lime
Top row: Grow fresh basil and mint in MOMA’s countertop {Herb Planter}, complete with snipping shears for quick seasoning at $65; the brilliant {Ice Cream Scoop & Stack} at Wrapables for just $14.95; an {Apple Corer} from Macy’s in Martha’s signature blue for $10.99.
Middle row: this perfect pink {Mixer} is irresistible, even at $80; this sky blue {Hand Colander} is prettiest you’ll ever see, while its $14.95 price won’t strain (pun decidedly intended!); the {Chef’n SleekSlice Mandoline} is another smart Wrapables find for $19.95.
Bottom row: Emile Henry’s classic {Pie Dish} at Macy’s takes it ruffled edge to even girlier heights in precious pink, for $45; Wrapables {Silicone Splatter Screens} in fun colors for $17.95 each; MOMA’s {Index Cutting Boards} are well worth $85, offering separate color-coded boards for veggies, red meat, fish and cooked foods to prevent cross-contamination.
Some additional ideas are on my Wishpot pick list, but all you really need to know is that Martha Stewart’s entire kitchen collection is a perfect complement to this board!
I would pair the items above with stainless steel cookware to keep from a cartoon-ish look, forge ahead with some modern entertaining, and have fun!
Check out these great buttons that Savvy Bride and Blind Pig Design did. What a great way to share your wish list and registry. If you are creative and have your own unique Wishpot badge, or button let us know and we’d be happy to feature it too!
And both of these wonderful people have given us permission to give you the Ok if you’d like to use their buttons
The first button is from http://thebudgetsavvybride.com/
This creative girl is a graphic designer who recently married the love of her life. Her site is Jess Lehry Designs and she also has an amazing blog all about weddings and real budget-savvy inspiration, tips, deals, and tidbits from her newlywed life. 
She is also a wishpot wedding expert. Isn’t it pretty?
The next button is by Blind Pig Design. Blind Pig Design was launched in 1999 amid little fanfare and in an even littler studio space! What started as a tiny one-person studio specializing in print design and corporate identity has since ballooned into a slightly larger one person studio specializing in linocut prints, posters and illustrations, identity development and web design.
Well great things come from little studios 
You can see this button here
Thank you to both Jess Lehry Designs and Blind Pig Designs for being so creative and for sharing your talent!
Let them know what you think.
gift girl
We got the idea to register for vintage dishware after seeing the plates of our dreams on set at a television sitcom taping we attended. I was flat out drooling for them, and even Hunter gave them a hells yeah. We scampered over to check the stamp on the plates, ran home to google it, and mentally filed it away. After a long and painful search for something new (and more readily available) that we loved just as much, we finally decided to go our own way and register for the first dishes to steal our poppy lovin’ hearts.
Wild Poppies - Metlox: Aren’t they dreamsicle?!?
It was the perfect decision for us, and we love our dishes more and more every time we use them. In fact, we ended up buying vintage silverware to go along with it!
The benefits of vintage dishware are threefold:
1. more financially friendly - the set we picked out cost less than most sets we saw at Crate and Barrel or Macy’s.
2. more eco-friendly - reuse is always a better choice than buying new, any day!
3. more finger friendly - we excel at breaking dishes. Vintage dishware is often sturdier and more break-resistant, which means keeping our wedding dishes safe for years to come!
Whatever your taste, you can find vintage dishes to suit them, in many places both online and in shops. Check out these babies:
Manzanita by Brock
Johnson Bros - Chelsea Collection
Starburst by Franciscan
Gold Dahlia by Metlox
You can search for vintage dishware at sites like Metlox California (who were supremely helpful in our registry process), Replacements.com, etsy, and ebay among many others. You can also try flea markets and antique bazaars in your town, like theRosebowl.
There are also some progressively fierce companies taking vintage dishware/china and turning it into something modern and delicious, like Esther Dirkx!
via Reform School - a favorite green boutique of mine
"But, Dana" you protest "how do I register for something so random and hard for guests to find/pay for?"
Woman, hie thee to Wishpot! You can register for items you find anywhere, in brick and mortar stores or on the internet. Its a convenient way to unleash yourself from single-store registries, and allowed us to explore our eclectic tastes in a personal and customizable way. It worked great for us, even when we bought our flatware through auction. We just manually listed it, posted the price, and someone "reimbursed" the gift to us. Or, contact a replacement company and ask if they’ll set up a registry for you. Many offer that service these days.
There are tons of ways to make your registry more personal, and more green. But vintage dishware is my absolute favorite (she says, as she eats her cereal from a sunny poppyfilled bowl).
Did you register for any vintage items?
Love this post and this idea! And I heart your poppy dishes! Thank you for sharing!
gift girl
What’s In Your Wishpot?
…A Look Through My Wishpot Lists!
As a blogger, I’m constantly finding awesome things that inspire me through other wedding blogs. However, I don’t always have the time to post about them, so instead I save them to my Wishpot.com lists! Today, I thought I’d visit my lists to share with you a few of my favorite things - random, but fun nonetheless…hope you enjoy!
Sweetie Heart bowl by Orrefors at Bloomingdales
A useful wedding gift idea that doubles as a wedding keepsake to always remember your big day by!
Petite Wishbone Necklace by JoiedeVieJewelry on Etsy
Wear it as bridal jewelry to show how lucky you feel to be marrying the man you love, or give as a bridesmaid gift as a "get lucky"token of laughter!
Chocolate Letters from the Gift Bag Shop
Pass these out as wedding favors to guests or use as an edible wedding cake topper! Either way, they’re sure to please…who doesn’t love chocolate?
Here Comes The Groomed Skincare Product
Let your groom get his groom on!
Party Picks by Lakeland
Whether you use these at your wedding, bridal shower or give as a bridesmaid gift, these party picks are too stylish not to love! After the wedding, take them home and use at your housewarming party and happily ever after!
For more fun items and wedding inspiration, visit my Wishpot.com lists or visit the wedding blog I write at www.itsajaimething.com. Feel free to create your own wedding registry and wish lists by visiting www.wishpot.com. Thanks for reading and happy planning! ~Jaime 
