Mr. and Mrs. Alcoholic Knife-happy Agoraphobics

According to a number my "kind" friends, evidently the gift registry that Frank and I set up makes us look like all we want to do is drink, sharpen knives, and make our bed.

I swear I can't win... first I get slack for a honeymoon registry, and then, because we have few wine glass sets (besides the plastic stuff that came from a favorite sandwich shop in Austin), sheets (I swear Frank has got some garfield sheets from 1989 lying around somewhere), and cooking utensils (because I have the same flatware that I got from a garage sale before I left for college), we get teased for the proportion of our registry that seems to represent those 3 things.

Registries are just supposed to suggest what the bride and groom might be lacking in their future home - it's a statement that says "no guest has to bring a gift, but if they really want to, here is what the couple might like." It is supposed to be more for the guests that the couple, so I am at a loss as to how Frank and I could have crossed so many etiquette rules about it. Ah well.

Besides, if anything, people should be more worried if we *hadn't* registered for so many glasses, sheets, and knives... it would mean we'd already amassed enough of those items to cause mischief. :)