How To Get a Man to Register...You Don't!

Sunday I woke up and went over to my future mother-in-laws to complain about what a hassle this wedding work is. In all her go get'em glory, she said, "Let’s do it. We'll go today and register". Sure enough, register we did, her and I!

I'm sure some are wondering why I would take my soon-to-be mother-in-law as opposed to my future husband. Though I did want him to go (at first), I soon realized how little help he would have been (sorry honey, but you know it's true).

I remember not so long ago when I told Michael, "we are going to have to register soon".

His response was "for what".

Mind you, I must have told him numerous times before that we, "register-for-gifts-for-the- wedding".

"That's terrible." comes his reply as he sits and watches grown men roll around on the floor together, trying to knock each other out.

"What’s terrible?” I ask, slightly losing patience.

"We have to tell people what to get us?” he says with disgust.

I try to explain, "now, I do realize it may seem a little forward and our parents never "registered" but that was THEN! this is NOW!"

The bottom line is men, mine anyway, are useless when it comes to what we "need". According to him, we don't need anything. We have everything. Try telling him that as he accumulates more certificates (ha ha inside joke).

I say "we need a vacuum".

He says "why, we have one".

I say, "Yes, honey (trying to compose myself) but it was on the clearance rack for 30 bucks two years ago, it's smaller than my grandmother and hardly sucks. It may be okay for our little pad right now but when we move into a "real" house we NEED A VACUUM...honey."

Hence, my mother-in-law and I gleefully filling up the registry sans my fiancé. Turns out, she was more help than I even imagined! She loves to cook and helped me fill the registry with gadgets I'm sure will take me a while to figure out what I actually use it for.

Thanks Mare!