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My engaged brother is using Amazon Universal Registry for this purpose - http://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/universal

We provide a personal concierge and service unparalleled by Amazon. Amazon does have a large collection of item's but they don't partner with local boutiques!

(To be clear: the amazon service lets you add anything with a website, not just items sold through the site)

We're still in Beta, but http://www.mixwish.com allows you to add items from any website as well. Similar concept to Amazon, but much easier to use.

This has gotten comically out of control and is probably saying something about the wedding industry.

Speaking of Amazon, you may enjoy: http://www.amazon.com/One-Perfect-Day-Selling-American/dp/15...

My wife and I started a similar site awhile back, originally just for our family. After realizing there were so many other competing sites out there we put it on the backburner. Never even really finalized a name/URL.

http://giftregistry.hindessite.com/

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