Is it bad etiquette not to buy something off the bridal registry?

Question

I want to give my friend something (wok) which she has a certain type on her Amazon.com registry. But I want to see if I can find a better and cheaper one.

Would it be wrong if I bought the same brand wok off of the registry? And what if I bought a different brand altogether?

PS- She is really easygoing MOST of time, and I know her laidback fiance picked it out. She is only registered in one place

Answer 1

a registry is really just a guide to give you ideas, it will be just fine to buy her the wok that you like

Answer 2

get something off the registry, if the wok is too much get something else, but get it off the registry

Answer 3

It's easier to buy from the registry and it insures there will be no duplicates for them to have to deal with returns. If you buy something that she has picked out specifically, then she will have to return one.  Find something that she has registered for that you can buy.

Answer 4

That should be fine, but you'll have to tell your friend to take it off the registry so someone else doesn't buy it for them.  Unless she really wants two.

Answer 5

I think it's fine to get her something similar.

Answer 6

No,it is a gift ...and it is from your heart. Just do what you can afford to do and is easier for you.

Answer 7

I would buy the item that is on her list regardless of your own preference.

Answer 8

Just get it for her, it's her wedding.

Answer 9

There is absolutely no requirement at all to buy a gift from a registry.  And even if you do buy something from her registry, that's no guarantee that she isn't going to get 2 or 3 or 10 of the same item.  A lot of people will go to the store, print the registry, make their purchase, and never tell the sales clerk that it's a registry purchase.  Other times, Great-Aunt Lucinda will say, "Honey, remind me, which slow cooker were you talking about?"   And then she buys it, and again it never shows up on the registry.  So now you go to the shower with the slow cooker from the registry, and here's Great-Aunt Lucinda with the same thing, and the pastor's wife with yet another identical slow cooker.

Buy the gift that you want to buy.  Just be sure when you pay for it, that you pay for the gift item separately from anything else you buy at that store that day.  Ask the sales clerk to give you a gift receipt.  If the bride doesn't care which wok she gets but the groom does, he has the receipt and can go exchange it.

Registries are lovely.  They really are.  I love going into a department store or a baby store and getting a print-out of the bride's registry or the new mom's registry for the baby.  But then, I hate to shop.  A list makes it easy.  But there is not and should never be any obligation to buy only from a registry.

Answer 10

yeah there is nothing wrong with that just try not to get some cheap piece of c**p that is less than what they asked for in quality.