Wardoku Wedding
Maria Ward & Reggie Doku
September 20, 2014
This registry allows you to pick gifts ranging from helping with the wedding day to spending time with us to giving us new or secondhand items to help us start our life together. Just select "give this gift", put in your contact info, and then we'll know that you plan to give us the gift. You don't give funds or gifts directly through the website; you bring them to the wedding or send in the mail. This website is just a way of letting you know gifts we would appreciate and keeping track of which gifts have been claimed already. You can choose to hide your identity so that we'll be surprised. Let us know if you have any questions! Please don't feel obligated to give us a gift-we're just happy that you're celebrating with us!
You can mail/ship to:
Maria Ward
1410 Madison Street NE
Minneapolis, MN 55413
Maria got to know the work of this organization while living in DC, and is really excited about the victories they have been winning in support of the rights of domestic workers.
Maria did a year of volunteer service at Neighborhood House, working primarily at the food shelves helping people to access food and benefits. This is an organization that is rooted in the Saint Paul community and whose staff reflects the people who are served. Programs include food support, basic needs, college access, english language and citizenship classes, early childhood education and much more.
This is an organization that Maria interned for a few years back that does really incredible work seeking justice for Haitians. Their work includes accountability for sexual assault, preventing people from being kicked out of their homes, and holding the UN accountable for introducing cholera into Haiti.
350.org works to promote action around climate change, organizing creative protests and leading the charge to hold polluters accountable for their actions.
Instead of a guest book, we'd like to have guests leave messages for us that we'll open on our future anniversaries. We'd love to have a friend create this for us!
Here are things we like:
-6 bottles, for anniversaries 1, 5, 10, 15, 20, and 25.
-The bottles are a variety of colors of glass.
-Original labels have been removed entirely.
-New, matching labels have been put on, highlighting each year.
-The wine bottle holders are attractive and don't take up too much table space.
Can you make a quiche, pancakes, french toast, fresh fruit, mimosas or anything else deliciously brunchy? Supply a dish for our out-of-town guest brunch on Sunday after the wedding (and you can stay for the brunch even if you're in-town)
In this role, you would handle last minute details and deal with problems as they arise on the wedding day.
Skilled with a curling iron? Know your way around a bottle of mascara? Help out the wedding party on the day of the event.
Give us the gift of taking pictures at our reception. We will have several people do this, so you'll only need to be actively taking pictures for an hour or so. No fancy camera required-just make sure to share the pictures with us afterwards and take photos of all the guests (not just the people you know).
Press play and pause at appropriate times; deal with technical problems; take requests. The list of songs will already be ready to go-you just keep an eye on the music for us!
Put together a list of songs on an ipod or computer for us to play during the reception
Maria misses playing piano! Help me keep those 10 years of lessons from going to waste. I plan to get a piano free on craigslist, but I'll need piano movers to do the job. Want to help move it?
Would love a framed photograph, painting or drawing to hang on our walls.
We'd love to spend time with you! Take us to dinner or brunch, at your house or a restaurant. We're happy to help cook :)
We would love a state parks pass so that we can go hiking/skiing/snow-shoeing and more! It costs $25.
Help fuel our biking/skiing/camping dreams!
We love going to the Dakota! High quality music and seriously delicious food in an intimate setting. We would love a gift card.
We want to get out of the city and explore our adopted state. Help us take a weekend away!
Nothing like cuddling up with some pancakes and the newspaper on a Sunday morning.
We want to come visit you! Help us do it with a Southwest Airlines gift card.
www.southwest.com/gift-card/home.html?int=GNAVSWASOUTHWESTGIFTCARD
On the left hand side of the page, there is a link to buy a $25 discount card, which is equivalent to 5 tickets.
The North House Folk School is in northern MN right on Lake Superior and teaches many kinds of crafts and old skills, like boat building, furniture making, wood carving, basket making, and more. We would love gift certificates to take classes here! Gift certificates range from $50-200.
We like to go to movies, plays, and concerts and try new restaurants. Your choice!
Houseplants needed to bring us some green in the, oh, six or seven months without that particular color here in the Great White North.
Would especially love potted herbs for the kitchen!
We already have two Scrabbles, but that's pretty much it.
Any neutral color should work-light blue/grey/green. A flat sheet and a fitted sheet.
Any kind, new or used.
Currently we are drinking out of mugs and jars...would like to class it up a little bit :) 6-8 wineglasses would be great.
Currently we use an exercise ball as seating...help us out!
New or used
We love cooking, and we know we'd use this a lot. Looking for a cast-iron skillet 12" or larger.
Some sort of beginner canning set
Any kind, new or used.
The kind you put over a gas burner on the stove. This would make our weekend forever...and will guarantee you an invitation to brunch ;)
Light blue/purple/grey. We don't care if they match!
Light blue, purple, grey-we don't care if they match!
Light blue/purple/grey-we don't care if they match!
Any color or pattern
Something to prevent us from slipping on the bathroom floor
If we're gonna live in the frozen tundra, we might as well get outfitted for it...
We'd each love a pair of snowshoes. Secondhand is great!
Something metal, preferably with a lid that helps keep the scraps from smelling until we can get them out to the backyard composter
www.rei.com/product/710554/park-bottom-bracket-hook-spanner-wrench-hcw-5
Light blue or green and circular-doesn't matter if they're all the same or all different.
Light blue or green and circular. Doesn't matter if they're all the same or all different- would be cool to have different patterns.
Light blue or green and circular. Happy to have different patterns!
Light blue or green and circular.
Any kind, as long as we can reuse them.
any kind
www.rei.com/product/879269/coleman-16-can-cooler-satchel-2013-closeout
Any kind. Mix and match is fine.
Already have the spices, just need the spice rack!
Maria's favorite appliance!