Are a lot of older people going to be using this? I don't know your wedding's demographics. My Dad (82)would never have found the registry link, my sister (50) would have no problem.

I have to say, my mother (64) was kvetching about not being able to figure out how to RSVP for a recent wedding: "All there is on the invitation is a website!" "Yeah, did you go to the website?" "No...." Of course it turned out to be obvious on the website.

But yeah, for someone who would immediately go to the website, that's plenty of information. Other people will start making calls anyway.

Just keep it on the website, ND, and Pix. The minute anyone asks where you're registered, feel free to tell them, and also say that there's info on the website. The minute someone asks, you do not need to obfuscate.

John Belushi wasn't Armenian, he was Albanian, Hec.

Thanks for the link, ND. I think I'll shop there.

The idea that you can't have a wedding (or any celebration you choose) without receiving gifts if you don't want them has always bothered me. I used to invite people over for my birthday and just not tell them it was my birthday because I didn't want to deal. And when some found out afterwards they were annoyed.

As a young person, I would expect to find the registry info on the website. If I were an old person, I should be used to the tradition of asking the family/couple where they were registered.

Some registries even show up on google. Mine still does.

Oh dear.

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I wish my extended family would register for Christmas! Because I know enough about what they like to get them stuff they already have, but not enough to get the right thing. At least, that's what it feels like.

He figured it out... using geometry!

Cool beans. Science - it works, bitches!

Thanks, all! I'm going with the initial instinct of leaving registry info on the website and letting people ask. Most of the guests will have no problem navigating the website, and we can help anyone who has questions. We're still doing a traditional RSVP with envelope, so that should help a little.

By the way, would a few of you do a quick proof of the site to see if anything jumps out as confusing? If you see a typo, I'd appreciate a heads up on that too: [link redacted].

Thanks!

(Link has gone POOF! Thanks, everyone.)

Get Your Wikipedia Fix

50 interesting Wikipedia links. I haven't read them all, but each one I've looked at has been interesting. So maybe bookmark this link for when you're bored or run out of internets.

Here's the first 15:

1. Anthropodermic bibliopegy
2. Elm Farm Ollie
3. EURion constellation
4. (the) Demon core
5. Pole of inaccessibility
6. Globster

7. Hoba meteorite
8. Seattle Windshield Pitting Epidemic
9. GRB 971214
10. “Resolute” desk
11. Candace Newmaker
12. Cryptomnesia

13. Hans Island
14. Harrowing of Hell
15. Semantic satiation

Cryptomnesia, or inadvertent plagiarism, is a memory bias whereby a person falsely recalls generating a thought, an idea, a song, or a joke, when the thought was actually generated by someone else.[1] In these cases, the person is not deliberately engaging in plagiarism, but is rather experiencing a memory as if it were a new inspiration.

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Semantic satiation (also semantic saturation) is a cognitive neuroscience phenomenon in which repetition causes a word or phrase to temporarily lose meaning for the listener, who can only process the speech as repeated meaningless sounds.

Ooh. I just read that the other day!

(Also, LAistas, if you didn't get a Save the Date and are remotely interested in attending, we would love to have you! Email me your snail mail addy. I tried to contact a couple of you and didn't hear back, so I wanted to cover my bases here.)