Controversial, I know.
My partner and I both feel very uncomfortable asking for anything really, so have been avoiding discussing our registry. However, now we keep getting rsvp responses asking if we have a register, or what do we want, etc.
We are having to travel for the wedding (as are half the guests - my partner and I are different nationalities), and would find it difficult to bring back physical gifts. We need nothing - literally nothing. We have tried telling people that we prefer them to come along than buy us things, but are still getting lots of registry requests.
The only thing we can think of would be contributions towards our honeymoon, as we both love travelling so much. But we are both stuck on how awkward this feels. We have tried looking at honeymoon registries (like buy my honeymoon or whatnot), but we still feel like this is an awkward thing to be asking for. We point blank refuse to ask people to bring cheques to the wedding in lieu of gifts. It just feels horrifically rude.
I'd be really grateful if anyone has any ideas, or knows any websites we could look for.
As a disclaimer, anticipating some of the standard responses: We don't feel entitled to gifts from ANY of our guests. If some guests choose to get us nothing at all, we probably won't even notice. If someone decides to buy us a crockery set or whatever, then we will of course thank them genuinely and profusely and not mention that it will most likely get smashed on the flight home. We don't need financial contributions to go on our honeymoon. The contributions would just mean that we might go slightly further afield, or stay in a nice hotel for a couple of nights.