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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's not a convenience so much as it's a statement that guests are required to buy you a gift. While it's certainly the norm (and good manners) to buy a gift for the bride and groom, it's still optional. [/quote]

Does the inclusion of information about a hotel block imply that guests are required to stay the night?  Does the invitation itself imply that guests are required to attend???

As far as I see it, the more information about the wedding in the invitation, the better.  There is so much emphasis on antiquated formalities (not just with weddings, though it is an area of particular frustration) that we get caught up in this nonsense.  If you had every intention of buying a gift for the happy couple, why would you be offended at them providing you some information to aid in gift buying?  Because they violated an unspoken rule that they may be unaware of or disagree with?  I recognize that social customs are real and of value, but the idea that those who might abide to a different set of generally arbitrary rules are somehow fatally flawed just seems nonsensical to me.[/quote]

Nobody said you were fatally flawed, just that the practice is tacky. I'm 28 and I've been invited to about 15 weddings in the past few years and [b]I've never ever seen registry info included on an invite.[/b] I've seen it with a shower invite a couple of times but I'm not wild about that either.  As far as convenience, all of my friends know how to find registries online within about 30 seconds. [/quote]

I'm 28 as well, and the past few weddings I have been invited to had the registry information on the invite.  If they had registered at multiple places it was included on a little slip of paper attached to the invite.  I think it is a little weird, and I always just look it up online anyways.  [/quote]

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