21 Genius Wedding Registry Hacks For Future Newlyweds

If you want to register for only a few items at several stores, MyRegistry can sync those registries. Gifts from Anthropologie, Bloomingdale's, REI, Crate and Barrel, and any other store on the Internet can be added to MyRegistry.

With the Add to Wish List button, you can register for items from any website. You'll also get a thank you list that shows you who bought what. And Amazon will remove items from your registry that you decide to purchase yourself.

For example, gift givers can choose to contribute to a "snorkeling activity." Honeyfund will then create a printable "gift page" that the gift giver will include with a physical check. Guests can also pay online but there is a fee (WePay and PayPal transactions cost 2.8% + 30 cents). You're essentially receiving a cash gift — and Honeyfund is creating a sleek landing page for those cash gifts.

And the site is flexible: couples can also create a home improvement registry or a down payment fund.

(Yes, the Post Institute says it's OK!) Tendr, MyRegistry, and Zola make it easy and offer lots of options, but beware — some will charge you or your guests a fee to send cash this way, so read the fine print.

At Heifer International, guests can help end hunger by giving a flock of chicks, goat, honeybees, or a heifer to newlyweds in need.

Select from several charities and create a custom charity registry website with the I Do Foundation.

With Changing the Present, couples can ask guests to fund specific nonprofits in addition to traditional wedding gifts.

Crate and Barrel registrants also get free save-the-dates from Paperless Post and 15% off the paper version.

Guests can also have the gift wrapped for free in-store.

The registry also includes free monogramming and an engagement gift. Register with certain brands at Bloomingdale's and get gifts, like $50 in Nespresso credit for spending $199 on registered Nespresso items.

– Dillard's offers a 20% completion discount that starts 60 days after your wedding date and is valid for two months.

– Macy's couples can take 15% off for six months after the wedding date, plus 10% off furniture, mattresses, and rugs.

– Target will send you a 15% coupon for remaining products the week of your wedding date.

– Kohl's offers a 15% off coupon for registry items valid up to three months after your wedding.

– Bed Bath & Beyond will mail a 10% completion coupon after the wedding, and will also host a completion "event," a designated day when you take 20% off without a coupon in-store.

– Crate and Barrel offers 10% off of remaining registry products and non-registry items (including furniture) up to six months after the wedding date.

– At JCPenney, couples receive 10% off for six months.

– Williams-Sonoma, Pottery Barn, and West Elm offer a 10% discount, valid for six months after your wedding.

– Bloomingdale's has a 10% completion discount up to six months after the wedding date.

– Zola has a 10% completion offer valid for up to one year after your wedding date. (The offer does not apply to cash funds, honeymoon funds, or gifts from third-party sources.)

– Amazon has a 10% completion discount, valid up to 30 days after your wedding date.

– REI's discount is 10% off of remaining registry items up to one year after your wedding date.

– Williams-Sonoma, Pottery Barn, and West Elm offer a 10% discount, valid for six months after your wedding. (Fun fact: gift cards are interchangeable at Williams-Sonoma, Pottery Barn, and West Elm.)

Redditor ba-poi discovered that if you return an item currently on sale, you'll receive credit for the item's regular price. You can then use that credit to buy the item again, and redeem the remaining credit (and use your completion discount) to buy items you still want.

...you follow these directions. If the items you wish to return are a) duplicates or b) all going back to the same address, talk to customer service and ask them to waive the $4.99 fee for all but one of your return items.