A touchy subject

Ever so popular in search engines and seen almost daily in The Knot message boards is the question of how to ask for money as a wedding gift. Different sites and different etiquette specialists will all tell you different information, ranging from it's always a no-no to it's a common practice nowadays. FI and I have been shacked up together for the past two years and in that time we have gathered all the various items we need for our home. In fact our place is too small for the compilation of things we have! Yet the "wedding experts" will have us believe that we are required to go down to our nearest Target or Bed Bath & Beyond and get trigger happy with the scan guns rather than tell guests what we would actually like is money to put towards new furnishings (which are too pricey to expect one person to pay for in a registry) and our honeymoon expenses. We have stuff thrown in closets and in storage as it is, so why in the world would we need to register somewhere for gifts? Now I know it's not polite to expect gifts just because you're getting married and I would never make someone feel obligated to get me something, but let's face it-a lot of people who come to your wedding are going to want to bring a gift because they care about you. If you are getting married soon people have probably already started asking where you are registered or what they should get you, and if you haven't been asked directly they have probably discussed it with your family or bridal party. I want to urge my guests not to go out and spend a fortune on gifts since the reason I am inviting them to the wedding is not to be showered with household items, but to be able to share the joy of the day with them. But if they insist that they want to give me and my future hubby something, as many of our invitees have done, who am I to stop them? I know it's a touchy subject and some think it's a major faux pas, but I find myself falling into the category of people who believe it's perfectly acceptable to let people know you'd rather receive money than another coffee maker or random items that ended up on your registry just so you'd have something on your list for others to purchase. I think it's a far worse crime to register for frivolous "filler" items and have guests waste money on things you didn't need in the first place than it is to express that money towards a bigger goal is what you would prefer. I will not be including any registry information on my invitations because that is just common sense that you don't pull a tacky move like that, but FI and I do have a wedding website that I'll be posting information on to explain why there is no registry floating out there for us and that while gifts are not necessary, if someone wants to give us something a monetary contribution would be much appreciated. We're hoping we won't have to eat grilled cheese sandwiches in the months following our wedding just to pay off our honeymoon expenditures! So how am I going to sugar coat this request for money? Why, a poem of course! This may not be for everyone but I know my guests are not the type who would be offended and it's rather cute and witty if I do say so myself. I wrote most of it on my own and then brought in bits and pieces of other poems I'd come across online. It's funny and light-hearted enough to where it doesn't sound pushy, because that's not what I was going for. I really just wanted a fun way to explain why we aren't registering. Here it is if you'd like to use it (please remember to credit accordingly!):

This is where you would normally see
Our registry information,
But as we already live together
We find ourselves in a situation.
We started collecting long ago
All sorts of things for our home,
There are not too many items now
That we don't already own.
So don't bother with searching for a gift
And please just bring yourself,
For that would mean more to both of us
Than absolutely anything else.
If you're still set on bringing something
Just know your presence will suffice,
But if you truly feel the need
Help with our honeymoon fund would be nice!