Now this is the kind of wedding article you can show your fiancée.
The NY Times reports that a couple in Silicon Valley is scrapping the traditional gift registry in favor of web hosting, Red Bull, and other dot-com start-up costs.
In their video, below, the couple says that they wanted to "rebel" against the tradition wedding registry, and we say, brilliant. (Also, it should be noted, this is a brilliant little PR stunt for the couple's new start-up, Aboomba. You can't buy this kind of coverage.)
So what can you learn from this? No, we don't suggest that you actually convince your fiancée to dramatically overhaul the gift registry for something this outlandish. But this is one more reminder that, as we say in How to Get Cash, Not Vases, you no longer have to settle for gravy boats and toaster ovens. Get more creative.
From The Times:
A Palo Alto, Calif., couple is forgoing traditional wedding gifts. Drue Kataoka and Svetlozar Kazanjiev are asking their wedding guests to instead donate money through PayPal to get their start-up, Aboomba, off the ground.
A look at the registry provides viewers with a few laughs, as well as an inside, on-the-ground look at what it takes to start a tech company.
This is probably the only couple in history to ask for a week of Amazon.com Web hosting ($134.40) or Windows XP SP2 Home Edition OEM ($95.64.) Guests can feed an outsourced engineer for a day for $150, or fund lunch with a venture capitalist for $291. (Ms. Kataoka and Mr. Kazanjiev have shown their guests all the calculations - including the exchange rate for an Indian engineer and the cost of a bottle of Bordeaux at a Menlo Park restaurant.)
Their video:
And get more of The Plunge's thoughts on your gift registry here.
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