Dont really fancy the idea of traipsing round debenhams selecting masses of things that we don't really want/need but are selecting for the sake of having a nice big wedding list.
What I'd rather do is make a list of all the things big and small we DO need from all sorts of different places that we would hope/intend to buy for ourselves at some point. We have seen various things for house and garden in different places, we could also add more 'unusual' type gifts - such as nice new things for our horse or walking/surfing/mountain biking things that friends who know us through those hobbies may prefer to buy as an alternative to towls and plates.
How would one administer such a list? Has anyone done it? I was thinking just a list of item, shop (with phone no/address/website) and price - and then maybe make it available 'on request' - maybe from my mother? And ask people to let her know what they intend to buy so that she can cross it off the list? Would this work? Or would it end up being a shambles with 3 or 4 people each buying us the same thing? ?
This was, I believe, the way gift lists used to work before department stores spotted the market of cornering a couples entire gift list for themselves?
