The Gift Registry

A gift registry is a system for coordinating gift giving. The gift registry was originally invented for weddings. It has long been customary for attendees of weddings to give the newlyweds gifts. There are often many guests at weddings, and groups of the guests don’t know each other at all. For example, each spouse has family and friends that may not have ever met. Wedding gifts are generally practical things such as appliances to help the newlyweds along on their new life together, and the gift registry is a record kept by a store of all the presents given to a couple. Usually the gift registry includes of list of items that the couple would find helpful, and it prevents doubles of common gifts.

Without the use of a gift registry, a couple could easily get two or three, say, toasters, which are common wedding gifts. Worse, they might not get any of the most useful gifts, if everyone assumes that someone else will get it. Today, gift registries are often done via an ecommerce shopping cart. An ecommerce storefront is a type of online store. It’s more convenient than the traditional gift registry because guests from all around the country (or world) can easily access the online shopping cart gift registry.