Registries!
As promised, the holiday shopping season is over, and we’ve ventured out into the retail world to determine what items we might be missing from our lovely home. In truth, as with most thirty-something couples, this wasn’t particularly easy. We’re not exactly just starting out in life. But when we took a moment and gave our housewares a hard look, we started to see some gaps. Like, that cookie sheet is from 1993, or we only have one good cooking knife, or the blender is acting like a cranky, arthritic mule lately.
So to that end, we got ourselves over to Crate and Barrel with a wish list, and registered up a storm. You can look it up here.
But you know what else we really need? Dishes. It’s a pretty standard registry item, but of course the brand of tableware that we really love, Fish’s Eddy, only has a paper registry in its one Manhattan store. I guess they take that “vintage” look and feel of their products right to the customer service as well!
The story of Fish’s Eddy is that while antique shopping in Pennsylvania, the owners came upon a huge storage of “dead stock” hotel and diner dishware for sale. (Dead stock is vintage product that was simply never sold, and sits in its original packaging.) Inspired by the find, they created a full line of look-alike crockery, which means it’s solid, heavy, and very classic. I mean, you could do bicep curls with the cereal bowls. You could knock out a burglar with one clunk on the back of the noggin with a dinner plate. Not to mention some of the great, New York-inspired special designs they’ve come up with since starting with the classic whites.
In order to allow folks to help in our purchase of this lifetime-ready stuff, we’ve set up a special fund: The Fish’s Eddy Fund. If you’re so inclined and very digital, you can make a donation directly to the fund by using PayPal and sending to fishseddyfund@gmail.com. Or you can earmark your gift for the fund, or even pick up a gift card at the store itself on 19th and Broadway in Manhattan. It’s great stuff, and if you like contributing to gravy boats and sugar bowls in your wedding gift shopping, that’s how we’re going about it.
Thanks for your interest, and for anything you choose to give us to celebrate the event. We thoroughly appreciate it!
