UponOurStar is the first Wedding Gift Registry for Wishes, not stuff.
Brides and grooms are saying “I do” later in life, with over 65% living together before their wedding. A traditional gift registry, wedding registry or bridal registry isn’t as useful as it was 30 years ago since couples already own the “stuff” that is available through traditional wedding registries and gift registries.
The wedding reception, wedding ceremony, bridal shower, engagement party, honeymoon accommodations and honeymoon travel… these can amount to over a third of a couple’s income.
With more brides and grooms paying for their own weddings, cash gifts or cash registries
– the gift of money – are becoming more popular. But using a Wishing Well, a cash
gift box at the wedding, or a standard cash registry can seem tasteless and offensive.
How can a bride and groom tastefully register for cash or monetary gifts instead
of unnecessary gift registry items?
Upon Our Star is a unique online Wedding Gift Registry. It’s a registry for Wishes,
instead of “stuff”. Upon Our Star allows brides and grooms to ask wedding guests
to grant their most meaningful wishes, instead of traditional gift registry items.
A couple’s gift registry
is personalized and limited only by the imagination-- anything from their honeymoon
suite, a trip around the world, an education fund, the bride’s wedding gown, a dream
wedding reception, a sunset honeymoon cruise…. Anything is possible since couples
create their own Wedding Wish Gift
registry items. Upon Our Star’s gift registry is redeemed in cash (money)
by the bride and groom. Guests contribute money towards the
wedding wishes (gift registry items) that they want to grant, and the money
is collected by the registered couple.
Upon Our Star is the ideal wedding gift registry for couples and for wedding guests.
Guests want to give the bride and groom meaningful wedding gifts. Granting wedding
wishes through Upon Our Star’s gift registry is meaningful for everyone, especially
for the wedding guests who can feel they are making a difference in the couple’s
lives. And there is no gift registry that is more fulfilling to a couple than one
that tastefully collects cash gifts to put towards their future dreams.
The steps to create an Upon Our Star Wedding Registry
are simple and quick. First, input your contact and wedding information to
open an account. You can then add
Wedding Wishes to your personalized,
Upon Our Star Wish Gift Registry webpage. You may customize your
wedding registry welcome message or wish (gift) descriptions and images. Finally,
Upon Our Star will help share the news about your wedding gift registry, by sending
an e-Invitation note to selected wedding guests.
Once you open an Upon Our Star Wedding Wish Registry
account, you will receive your own registry webpage. Upon Our Star will email your
username and password; you can then log in to your UponOurStar gift registry to monitor guests’ registry contributions. You can track
which wedding registry items are popular , and add to or edit the registry
along the way so that each wedding guest can find a suitable gift. Once your wedding
is passed, you can collect your Upon Our Star Wedding Gift Registry funds. Simply log in to your UponOurStar Registry account, and choose COLLECT.
Similar to a cash registry, you will receive your wedding gift contributions in
a cash transfer. Upon Our Star will transfer the registry cash contribution into
your specified bank account.
To get answers to common questions about Upon Our Star Wedding Gift Registry or
Wish Registries, read the UponOurStar Gift Registry FAQ. Or, to learn more about
the Upon Our Star wedding registry experience, take the UponOurStar Gift Registry
Tour.