We have each chosen an organization that we believe is doing work integral to making this world a better place. Zena has chosen Innocence Project, an organization that exonerates the wrongly convicted through DNA testing and reforms the criminal justice system to prevent future injustice. Their mission is to free the staggering number of innocent people who remain incarcerated, and to bring reform to the system responsible for their unjust imprisonment. https://www.innocenceproject.org/ In lieu of a wedding gift, we would be overjoyed if you donated to either organization. Love, Zena & Chris

We have each chosen an organization that we believe is doing work integral to making this world a better place. Chris has chosen My Sister's Place, which is DC's oldest domestic violence shelter. They are the only domestic violence shelter in DC that offers a full continuum of care from immediate crisis through transitional-to-permanent housing. This continuum ensures that victims are not re-traumatized by having to repeat their painful stories to numerous counselors. https://mysistersplacedc.org/ In lieu of a wedding gift, we would be overjoyed if you donated to either organization. Love, Zena & Chris

We'd love to have a paring knife to use in our kitchen.

We love drinking Chardonnay when we cook seafood or other light dishes that pair well with Chardonnay.

We love to drink either a glass of Cab or Merlot when we cook red meat or chicken dishes. Red pairs very well with our more hearty meals.

We enjoy drinking wine on the weekends when we are finally home from working all week. We look forward to using these glasses with our red wine collection!

We love drinking wine on the weekends when we return from work. Nothing like having a nice cold glass of white wine in a great wine glass!

We absolutely love cooking but there are days when we are just exhausted and rather go out for a nice romantic dinner. We have so many favorite places in DC! We'll make sure to let you know which restaurants we chose for our dinners.

When we were both in NYC, we saw a couple of Broadway shows. We truly enjoy going to the theater. We're hoping to one day see either Hamilton or Lion King with this gift.

Since both of us travel weekly for work, we go for massages to help relieve our muscles aches from lugging our suitcases around and traveling on planes and trains on a weekly basis. Our backs and shoulders are thanking you right now!

One our interim honeymoon ideas is to go white water rafting in the area. Basically it's a four-hour guided whitewater rafting trip down the Class II / III section of Mather Gorge. We will learn how to paddle a whitewater raft with expert guides and we'll practice maneuvers in various rapids from below Great Falls down to Angler's. Should be a ton of fun! https://www.potomacpaddlesports.com/whitewater-rafting-near-washington-dc-west-virginia/whitewater-rafting-near-washington-dc-west-virginia-md-va-pa-landing.aspx

We've decided to postpone our honeymoon until 2018 because we don't have enough vacation days to take a long vacation in 2017. We are considering Fiji or some beautiful relaxing place in Europe. We are not sure yet. We will start to plan our honeymoon after the wedding, so once we decide we will let you know. Thanks so much!

Owning a home is our dream goal and we hope to accomplish this goal either this year when our lease is up or the latest next year when our lease is up. We'd love to be home owners soon. Thank you so much!

We love to read right before we go to sleep, so having a lamp near our bedside would be great. Our current lamp makes noise and it's annoying.

We'd love to have new kitchen mitts that we can use. We'll replace our old ones with these new ones!

We can never have enough highball glasses!

We love spatulas and use them regularly. We'd love to have new ones to use in our kitchen to replace our old ones.

We'd love to have new towels for the kitchen and to use while we are cooking our meals.

We love spatulas and use them regularly. We'd love to have new ones to use in our kitchen to replace our old ones.

We love using a food processor. The one we have is just okay but this one will make a better companion in our kitchen.

We got rid of our deep fryer and thought it would be nice to get a deep cast iron skillet to deep fry food. Chris loves Zena's fried chicken, so she can make delicious fried meals for him.

Our shears broke earlier this year and we would love to have a new one for our home! There are countless uses for this two-piece set! We'd love to have a good paring knife in our kitchen and good kitchen shears for cutting stems from herbs and trimming the fat from poultry and red meat.

We make a lot of soups, spaghetti, and rice bowl dishes. Plus we eat a lot of cereal and oatmeal in the mornings. So we go through bowls! We can never have more than enough bowls.

Love these bowls and they will be great to have while cooking together.

Chris is an excellent cook and makes delicious steaks in using our George Foreman grill. We'd love to have steak knives to use when Chris cooks his delicious steaks.

This is definitely a great thing to have when attempting to make that perfect meal. We can't wait to play with this great device!

We love using wooden utensils to cook with. They are absolutely great to have in our kitchen!

We love cooking at home and we bought a fabulous booked called SlowCooker Revolution that we use A LOT and the recipes are great! We'd love to have a new slow cooker to cook fabulous meals together.

We use a lot of fresh herbs in our meals because they provide amazing flavor. We love Basil, Thyme, Dill, Parsley, and Cilantro. This mezzaluna will be great for chopping fresh herbs!

Chris and I love cooking dishes in the oven and think this would be great in our kitchen to cook amazing fish and chicken dishes!

Nothing like having a good wok to make amazing dishes!

We love drinking wine and we'd love to have awesome wine glasses.

We love drinking wine and we'd love to have awesome wine glasses.

This will make opening a wine bottle much easier!

Chris loves all types of beer and Zena loves the fruity beer. It's a great date night to go to a beer tasting and eat wings.

Zena loves red wine (favorites are merlot and Cab) and white wine (Chardonnay and Viogner). Chris loves red (favs are Pinot) and white wine (anything that Zena likes). We very much enjoy going to wine tastings for our date nights.

We want to do more picnics and this will definitely encourage us to go to the park more and enjoy a nice picnic when the weather is great.

Chris is a football fanatic and knows everything about football! His favorite team is the Vikings. We try to go to games whenever we can get tickets or whenever the Vikings are in town. We love to go to a couple of games next season.

This may seem like a silly gift but we drink about 6 liters a day between the both of us. We love drinking water and we love staying hydrated! Keeps our skin great and perform at our best. This water bottle is great because it's easy to clean and it has a straw.

Zena absolutely loves yoga and practices daily. She's a certified yoga teacher and truly enjoys sharing her love of yoga when she teaches. We love doing yoga in the house but once in a while we enjoy a group class with other students.

Chris is an incredible pool player and was part of a pool league until he started traveling for work. We still love to go shoot pool at Atomic Billiards in Cleveland Park for some of our casual date nights - it gets the competitive juices flowing!

This would be great to go along with our picnic basket that's on the registry. We love just chilling out and enjoying a Saturday afternoon at the park.

We fell in love with paddle boarding while in Hawaii. We had so much fun that we said we'll do it again. We're looking to go paddle boarding in DC on the Potomac river as one of our interim honeymoon activities! http://paddlestrokesup.com/

Our current rugs are in need of replacement. We would love to have these for our bathrooms!

Because we are always on the road, when we come home we look forward to jumping into our bed! A soft plush duvet cover is always great to have and we would love to put it on our bed.

These beautiful shams go along with the awesome duvet cover for our bed.

We have one of these in our bedroom now but it's old (it was from Zena's apt in Chicago) and doesn't look as good anymore. She had it for 10 years. We love having it because it's soft to step on and looks great in the bedroom. We'll hopefully replace the old one with a new one!

This is great for us to make fresh juice in the mornings with our breakfast.