Registering in the UK

According to the countdown function on the Knot, we have 182 days to go and I've got 9 items overdue and 130 still left to do. I guess the checklist function is useful to some people but just seeing it stresses me out.

One of our 'to dos' for this month is to start looking into registering. We've decided to only register in the UK mainly because it is far too costly to ship/bring gifts back from Canada. This unfortunately has restricted our registration options to stores that offer online registry functions. From what I can find, there are only 2 UK department stores that do this: John Lewis and Debenhams. John Lewis certainly has a greater selection of choice but get this - they only allow a 'certain number of registries per month' and the registry only opens 6 weeks before the wedding and shuts 2 weeks after the wedding. What is up with that?

So needless to say, we'll be heading over to Debenhams in the near future...