Twenty-four crystal champagne flutes: I love entertaining, so these beautiful champagne flutes are a must-have for the elegant sit-down dinner parties I’ll be hosting. I considered asking for thirty-six, but decided to cut down the guest list. Everyone loves being invited to an exclusive event.
Ten years later: In the attic, wrapped tightly in the very bubble wrap they came in.
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Salad spinner: My husband and I will cook and enjoy nutritious meals together. A healthy lifestyle leads to a healthy marriage.
Ten years later: This gadget stays front and center in the kitchen cabinet, because the inner basket works as a perfect strainer to drain the kids’ Kraft macaroni and cheese.
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His and hers coffee mugs: A cornerstone of marital bliss, these mugs will become a staple of our morning routine. We’ll sit together in our sun-drenched brunch nook and enjoy the quiet early hours together, doing the crossword and watching a family of foxes frolic in our backyard.
Ten years later: They’re among the dozens of other broken-handled coffee mugs that remain in the dishwasher at all times.
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Ceramic measuring cups: Would Ina Garten, our one true queen, and Barefoot Contessa, use a plastic measuring cup? Ceramic is so much classier, plus they’re BPA-free. I plan to do a lot of baking so I can send my husband to work with fresh-baked pains au chocolat for his colleagues once a week.
Ten years later: Sometimes I need the ⅓ cup to add the oil when I’m making brownies from the boxed mix, but that one disappeared seven years ago, so I just eyeball it using the ½ cup. I mostly drink my morning coffee out of them, as all the mugs are in the dishwasher.
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Cappuccino machine: So we can drink our favorite gourmet espressos every morning from the comfort of our own kitchen, while saving up to forty dollars a week.
Ten years later: It’s still on our counter. Good as new, actually, albeit a bit dusty. This couple runs on Dunkin’.
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Matching luggage: We want to always keep our travel cups full. Travel is so important to us. We plan to visit a new country every year on our anniversary and really soak in the culture—even after we start having children. We’ll track each destination on a map that hangs above our fireplace.
Ten years later: The large suitcase provides excellent storage for the kids’ snow pants and boots during the warmer seasons.
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Bright fluffy towels: Who says every shower can’t feel like a spa? Imagine taking a hot bubble bath, drinking champagne from one of your twenty-four crystal champagne flutes, and then stepping out into the warmest, fluffiest towel? Now that is adulting.
Ten years later: Oh, you mean my gray, threadbare towels?
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Nonstick cookware: Ideally, we’ll have enough money to honeymoon in the French countryside, where we’ll take a weeklong course at a crêperie. When we return to our marital home, we’ll start a tradition of making crêpes every Saturday morning—and sometimes, when we’re feeling puckish, breakfast for dinner!
Ten years later: Oh, you mean my extreme-stick cookware?
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Roomba: We’re a busy, successful power couple, so having a robot vacuum that we can just boop on every day and have it clean while we’re at our very important jobs is a necessity.
Ten years later: Well, I’m a stay-at-home mom now, so technically I could just vacuum myself. Which I don’t. But we have the Roomba, so I could simply boop that on once a day to take a cursory sweep. Which I don’t. But yeah, sometimes when the kids sleep over at their grandparents, we unleash it, take shots of tequila out of the ¼ measuring cup, and watch the dog try to fight it.
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Veggie spiralizer: One word: zoodles. They’re all the rage!
Ten years later: Wait, I asked for what? What the hell is a veggie spiralizer? What are ZOODLES?
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Money: We included a cute poem with the registry, suggesting that wedding guests give a monetary gift. All money will go into the Our Perfect Home Fund, where we are saving up to knock down a wall and build that sun-drenched breakfast nook where we drink from our his and hers mugs and watch the fox family frolic.
Ten years later: The wedding money is here in the house. I mean, not HERE here. But I think of it every time I look at the water heater we replaced after the old one burst and flooded our basement the week after we got married.
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Wicker laundry basket: Eh. Just something basic to round off the gift registry.
Ten years later: I use this four times a day, every day of my life. The perfect wedding gift. Thank you again, Auntie Diane!
