Registering at The Bay & Home Outfitters

We are now officially registered at The Bay and Home Outfitters. Much to my surprise this was a fairly smooth process that only had a couple of hiccups.

We started the registering process back in late January at the National Bridal Show where we filled out some forms and picked a few essential items that they had on display. Someone from The Bay and Home Outfitters was then supposed to call us within two week but that of course didn’t happen. Hiccup #1.

A quick phone call to the Home Outfitters on the Queensway set up an appointment there but no one was answering at Sherway Mall Bay so we had to physical go there, track someone down and make the appointment. This was hiccup #2 and was easily the biggest issue we had with setting up our registry.

Our first appointment was at Home Outfitters and we had our scanning gun within minutes of sitting down with the clerk. Prior to getting the gun we had to fill out a bit of paperwork and listen to speech about how we shouldn’t scan clearance items and returned items would be issued store credit only and then we off on our way.

We don’t need a ton of stuff and we’d already scanned the essential items at the wedding show so all we did was add a handful of like-to-have type items to the registry and then we were done. The whole process took maybe an hour.

Our appointment at The Bay was a couple weeks later and I was a bit worried about it. I’ve heard horror stories about having to sit with the consultant for an hour, listening to a lecture on the benefits of fine china, or worse, ending up with a consultant who follows you around.

Thankfully we didn’t run into any of this. While we did have to wait a few minutes for a consultant, once she got to us she quickly went over the paperwork, asked us a few questions about our guest count and what kind of place we lived in and then passed over the gun.

Shawn theorizes that the consultant spent so little time with us because we said we lived in a one-bedroom condo that didn’t need any major appliances. So there you go, if you want a speedy registry consultation at The Bay make it clear that you don’t have much room for stuff.

I’m also happy to report that we had no issues activating the $25 gift cards that we’d received at the bridal show. We simply showed them to our consultants and they loaded up the cards and gave them back to us when we brought back the gun. So if you can, wait and start the registry process at a bridal show that’s being sponsored by The Bay and make yourself $50.