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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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Could be me, but I give the "side eye"
Yeaaa! My friends are engaged. Yippeee!
We got an invite to the engagement party at my friend's parents house which is 2 hours away. Being 5 months pregnant, staying comfortable for long periods of time is slowly going out the window, but I'd still go.
So I get to the bottom of the invite, and it gives their registry info. This is what I give the side eye. 
Is this a new standard I'm not familiar with? Any engagement party I've gone to said no gifts, and they meant it. I like to fancy myself not a cheap-skate, but this strikes me as gift grubby.
So now you get THREE gifts: engagement, shower, wedding? Please tell me if I'm out of step with things here.
Re: Could be me, but I give the "side eye"
wow, that's ridiculous! though engagement parties aren't big in my circle (i've been to one). and i think we did something small, but certainly not anything off of a registry.
My friends don't really do engagement parties, nor did DH and I, but I always thought a card was appropriate for that sort of event. Asking for more gifts seems like overkill, IMO.
Miss Manners would say you should never include registry info with any invititation, and that this sort info should be passed by word-of-mouth.
this. when I go to parties of any sort at people's houses, I just ask if I can bring a dish, or bring a bottle of wine or something. I've never heard of engagement parties where they actually have a registry already.
how done is the registry?
Baby in a Blue Teapot
Tempest in a Blue Teapot, food and everything else
"You live, you learn, you drink, and move on." ~ Rotty
We didn't have one either. It just seemed like one more thing to figure out. They've gotten like 2 things of their registry.
It's going to be a bottle of wine from the cellar of Chateau Miller (our basement) and a card and that's it.
My friend has been itching for a ring for a long time and now she is full on bride mode and I think trying to take advantage of it any way she can. Everything that group does gets involved so I'm not feeling too bad about throwing the pregnant card on bachelorette parties and etc.