How your wedding wish list becomes the perfect gift registry
The frame is in place: list created, first wishes collected. What follows turns „Our wedding registry – Anna & Jonas“ into more than a gift list: a short guide to the terms around the wedding registry, keeping the list as a couple, wishes beyond the shops – and one trick that makes your thank-you notes easier after the celebration.
Wedding registry, wedding list, gift registry – all the same thing?
Yes: wedding registry, wedding list, gift registry and gift table all describe the same thing – a couple's shared wish list for their wedding. The registry used to sit in an actual shop where guests picked out presents; today the term almost always means the digital version. Your Wishbob list is exactly that: an online wedding registry your guests open via a link, with no account and no password. So when your invitation, your wedding website or your maid of honour talks about the „wedding list“ while your aunt asks about the „gift table“ – it is always the same Wishbob list, and everyone lands in the right place through the same link, sent out for example as a QR code on the wedding invitation.
Keeping it up as a couple: editing the wish list together
At Wishbob you can edit your wedding wish list together as a couple – so you don't have to commit to one device or one person. To do so, you release the list for editing via a sharing link: both of you can then add wishes, expand descriptions or adjust priorities, each from your own phone or laptop. That spreads the work during an already busy planning phase. Worth knowing: anyone who has the sharing link can edit the list in full – so keep it between the two of you and pass it on at most to people you truly trust, such as the maid of honour helping to organise the gifts.
Experiences, gift cards and good deeds: wishes without a shop link
Your wedding registry also has room for wishes you won't find in any online shop – as free wishes with no link at all. Couples who have lived together for a long time and aren't missing anything in the household often wish for shared memories instead:
- the cooking class you've been talking about for months,
- the candlelight dinner on the first evening of your trip,
- a gift card for your favourite restaurant –
- or a donation to an organisation close to your hearts.
You add wishes like these as free text and briefly explain in the description field what you mean; with experiences and donations in particular, that description decides whether your guests feel comfortable choosing them. In our experience, personalised wishes – with your own photo and a few personal lines instead of a bare product image – are reserved especially readily.
After the celebration: thank-you notes made easy
At a large wedding, Wishbob supports you even after the party – namely with an overview for your thank-you notes. Whether gift-givers can leave their name when reserving is something you decide yourselves as the creators of the list; your guests then choose whether to make use of it. The names left behind stay hidden at first – even in the „Fulfilled wishes“ view you initially see only which wishes have already been taken. The names become visible only once you actively show them. That way the surprise is preserved exactly as long as you want: when the thank-you cards are due after the celebration, you show the names and know precisely who to thank for which gift – with no scraps of paper and no awkward question about who the food processor was from.
Our tip: Use the „Fulfilled wishes“ view deliberately as a planning tool: before the celebration, a look inside helps you organise the gifts; afterwards – with the names shown – it becomes your finished thank-you list. When you look is entirely up to you.
More about your wish list
Wishbob stays with you beyond the wedding too: there are dedicated pages for other occasions – from the birthday wish list through the baby wish list and the children's birthday wish list to the Christmas wish list – and many couples simply keep using their list for the next occasion after the wedding. In the „Frequently Asked Questions“ right below, you will find further answers to important questions about creating, sharing and using your wish list.
