{"id":12,"date":"2008-07-23T21:01:38","date_gmt":"2008-07-24T04:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wedding.lastcoolnameleft.com\/?p=12"},"modified":"2008-07-23T21:02:53","modified_gmt":"2008-07-24T04:02:53","slug":"registry-catch-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wedding.lastcoolnameleft.com\/?p=12","title":{"rendered":"Registry: Catch-22"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Through this mini-adventure know as planning our wedding, we&#8217;ve been known to buck a tradition or two (I think some of the etiquette guide writers must still be rolling in their metaphorical graves over our electronic invitations), but one tradition we&#8217;ve been trying to wade through is the handling of the registry.  Every guide we&#8217;ve come across launches into a convoluted explanation of why the registry is so gosh darned important and why the location of it must <em>never<\/em> be mentioned by the bride and groom. <\/p>\n<p>In fact, I have a feeling that the degree to which we are bucking the bridal system would make many a bridezilla quote <em>Catch-22<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You have no respect for excessive authority or obsolete traditions. You&#8217;re dangerous and depraved, and you ought to be taken outside and shot!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We are very thankful that our friends and family have been more supportive.<\/p>\n<p>Well&#8230;maybe after this post hits the internet those rolling writers will start turning fast enough where we can hook up something to harness the energy.<\/p>\n<p>If you feel so inclined to give us something as we start our life together, but have been wondering where we are hiding our registry.  We are registered at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/registry\/wedding\/R1O0ZL3MMLPP\">Amazon.com<\/a> (Search Kathy Carter or Tommy Falgout) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/registry\/wedding\/R1O0ZL3MMLPP\">Target<\/a> (search online or in stores- Katherine Carter or Thomas Falgout in Texas, yes, there is actually another Katherine Carter getting married, but I swear that&#8217;s not me!).<\/p>\n<p>We look forward to seeing you at the big day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Through this mini-adventure know as planning our wedding, we&#8217;ve been known to buck a tradition or two (I think some of the etiquette guide writers must still be rolling in their metaphorical graves over our electronic invitations), but one tradition we&#8217;ve been trying to wade through is the handling of the registry. Every guide we&#8217;ve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-preparation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wedding.lastcoolnameleft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wedding.lastcoolnameleft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wedding.lastcoolnameleft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wedding.lastcoolnameleft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wedding.lastcoolnameleft.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/wedding.lastcoolnameleft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wedding.lastcoolnameleft.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wedding.lastcoolnameleft.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wedding.lastcoolnameleft.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}