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"Is this bride&amp;#x27;s wedding registry too fancy-pants? Writes Save the Date reader Patricia: I&amp;#x27;m getting married in June and I&amp;#x27;m so excited, but registering is totally overwhelming. I work in the food industry and I&amp;#x27;m always in the kitchen, so I want to register for high-quality kitchen stuff that I&amp;#x27;ll be able to use forever. But I&amp;#x27;ve gotten some snide comments about the higher-end things I put on the registry. The biggest ticket item, a Vita-Mix blender, retails for around $400. How to I respond when people say I&amp;#x27;m asking for too much? Do I have to register for cheap stuff? Here are my thoughts: Just because you have fancy things on your registry, that doesn&amp;#x27;t mean your guests HAVE to buy them! In fact, I think it&amp;#x27;s good to have a few pricey items on your registry: If someone (or a group of someones) wanted to spend $400 on a wedding gift, it&amp;#x27;s nice to have something substantial on your registry so they don&amp;#x27;t have to buy forty $10 items. Do your best to have gifts at every price point. As long as there are a bunch of $50-or-less options and some gifts in the $100 range, I don&amp;#x27;t think it&amp;#x27;s crazy to have a couple super-expensive options on there. If someone says something snide about the spendier items, I&amp;#x27;d reply, &amp;quot;We tried to have gifts at every price point, and we included some more expensive options in case a group of people want to go in on a gift.&amp;quot; If you feel guilty about the pricey gifts, you could register for some less-expensive items, return them, and use the credit to buy the fancy things you really want. But I don&amp;#x27;t think that&amp;#x27;s worth all the lugging back and forth&amp;amp;#8212;or the headache when your great aunt asks post-wedding, &amp;quot;What&amp;#x27;s that fancy blender on your counter and what did you do with the $25 one I got you?&amp;quot; And I certainly don&amp;#x27;t think you need to register for a bunch of junky kitchen stuff to keep your guests from tsk tsk-ing. As a wedding guest, I&amp;#x27;d much rather spend my money on something the bride and groom actually want. I don&amp;#x27;t care if I spend $X on a set of pans or a single pot as long as it&amp;#x27;s something they&amp;#x27;re going to be happy with. And if I don&amp;#x27;t see something on the registry in my price range, I&amp;#x27;m fine writing a check. Ladies, what do you think? Should Patricia take the fancy stuff off her registry? Or is it fine to register for expensive stuff? Have a wedding-y dilemma of your own? E-mail me! More reader&amp;amp;#8217;s dilemmas, solved! * &amp;amp;#8220;Help! My Parents Are Paying for Our Wedding, And They Want to Control EVERYTHING!&amp;amp;#8221; * &amp;amp;#8220;Are Our Friends and Family Members Going to Flip Out If We Elope and DON&amp;amp;#8217;T Invite Them?&amp;amp;#8221; * &amp;amp;#8220;Help! My Guy Says He Wants to Marry Me&amp;amp;#8212;But He&amp;amp;#8217;s NOT Saving Up for a Ring!&amp;amp;#8221; Photo: Thinkstock"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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