The Dude Registry
The Story
Once upon a time, some guy was getting married and he put a $300 item on his wedding registry. Well as you may have guessed, that was the only item he actually wanted and pretty much the only one he himself put on the registry. (You probably can guess where the rest came from)...
A week after getting married and going through the assortment of crap that was bought "for THEM", the guy concluded that wedding registries are a joke and only serve to prepare you for the "compromise" that is marriage.
Fast forward a couple of years and this same guy overheard a conversation between two other dudes asking why there wasn't a registry for guys...
The Birth of Greatness
And so thusly, the Dude Registry was born to give us guys one last chance to look out for ourselves, (since we know they won't). To accomplish this, the registry addresses these two issues:
Because we gotta stick together we gotta give you head's up on this one... WITHOUT FAIL, whenever a woman (particularly one who is about to be married) hears about the registry, she immediately sees it as a threat to the "real wedding registry". (Which just further goes to show that the "real wedding registry" isn't for us and that they're stealing it all for themselves!)
What we've found though is that (and just speaking about weddings here), there are more than enough people coming to your wedding who will buy you two presents. You have your family, her family, her friends, blah blah blah. All of THESE people don't NEED to know about YOUR registry. Hell, she doesn't even need to know about YOUR registry! (But that's on you, not an official Here's To You Man recommendation). Point is, your friends would rather get you something that you really want because they know your life is practically over. And even when they do so and get you something from the Dude Registry, there will be PLENTY of other people getting "you both" stuff from her registry.
Look, just tell her "Don't you worry your pretty little head about it."
The Story
Once upon a time, some guy was getting married and he put a $300 item on his wedding registry. Well as you may have guessed, that was the only item he actually wanted and pretty much the only one he himself put on the registry. (You probably can guess where the rest came from)...
A week after getting married and going through the assortment of crap that was bought "for THEM", the guy concluded that wedding registries are a joke and only serve to prepare you for the "compromise" that is marriage.
Fast forward a couple of years and this same guy overheard a conversation between two other dudes asking why there wasn't a registry for guys...
The Birth of Greatness
And so thusly, the Dude Registry was born to give us guys one last chance to look out for ourselves, (since we know they won't). To accomplish this, the registry addresses these two issues:
- Inventory - With any traditional registry, you're tied in to one particular store. This obviously
sucks because you're immediately limited to whatever items that one store sells. Here, our inventory comes
from Amazon so you can rest assured that you can basically get anything you want, with fast order
fulfillment, often no shipping, and at great prices too!
- Collaboration - If there is another registry on the planet that allows your boys to go in on items together, we don't know about it! This is what makes this registry so awesome! Gone are the days where you couldn't put that 360 or LCD on your registry because it was too expensive. Yeah, $300 may be a lot for one guy, but break it down amongst 10 people and you're money.
Because we gotta stick together we gotta give you head's up on this one... WITHOUT FAIL, whenever a woman (particularly one who is about to be married) hears about the registry, she immediately sees it as a threat to the "real wedding registry". (Which just further goes to show that the "real wedding registry" isn't for us and that they're stealing it all for themselves!)
What we've found though is that (and just speaking about weddings here), there are more than enough people coming to your wedding who will buy you two presents. You have your family, her family, her friends, blah blah blah. All of THESE people don't NEED to know about YOUR registry. Hell, she doesn't even need to know about YOUR registry! (But that's on you, not an official Here's To You Man recommendation). Point is, your friends would rather get you something that you really want because they know your life is practically over. And even when they do so and get you something from the Dude Registry, there will be PLENTY of other people getting "you both" stuff from her registry.
Look, just tell her "Don't you worry your pretty little head about it."