Benjamin Maritz and Vivian Song

Hello Friends and Family,

Our friends Melissa and Dick have created this amazing registry service from scratch! We hope you have as much fun using it as we did. Thank you for all the love and support over the years. We look forward to growing old together, surrounded by such wonderful loved ones.

Love,
Ben and Viv

1. Priceless

A Home Cooked Meal!

We're both very excited for our entry into sedentary adult life. Being single is exhausting! A hallmark of being grown up is of course the dinner party -- and we would love nothing more than to join you for one, with you cooking :)


Priceless

Your Presence at Our Wedding

Nothing means more to us than sharing our special day with you! We can't wait to look out from under the chuppah at your smiling faces.


Priceless

Dog Sitting

Borrow our puppy for a weekend (refer to "Fun" section)! According our friend Dan M., dogs are great chick magnets, even dogs with legs.


Priceless

2. Kitchen

Iittala Dining Set -- for 12 people!

Some of you may have been to our house and used our Iittala plates. Married life means a bigger house and more guests -- so it's time to expand our collections (sourced through Peter Miller, of course!)

"Sign of the times. The is what the iittala OR201851 Origo Salad Plate in orange represents. Design has to be brave, to take a stand. The Origio collection, available in orange, blue, pink, or brown, is brave and daring and different. Brighten up your table. Mix and match the pieces and colors. Take a stand! Only from iittala."


$100.00

Bradley Digital Smoker

Support Ben in his #1 life passion!

"Perfect for entertaining, creating gourmet foods in your own home, or just enjoying the flavor that smoking brings, the new Bradley Digital Smokers offer an easier and better way to automatically roast, smoke and barbecue in the outdoors."


$50.00

FoodSaver V3835 Vacuum Food Sealer

Needed for the sous vide!

"By keeping air out and sealing freshness in, this home vacuum-packaging system eliminates freezer burn and keeps foods fresh and delicious up to five times longer than conventional storage methods. "


$75.00

SousVide Supreme Water Oven 10-L

Purchase entitles guest to a delicous meal

"The SousVide Supreme is the world's first water oven designed specifically to bring the gourmet sous vide cooking method into home kitchens. Sous vide cooking involves vacuum-sealing food in airtight pouches, then submerging it in a water bath at precisely controlled temperatures - often much lower than those used in traditional ovens - but for a longer time. The result is perfectly cooked foods with enhanced flavors and nutritional benefits."


$100.00

iittala Senta Wine Glasses

Our dinner guests deserve to drink out of something better than our mismatched Ikea wine glasses. Comes in a set of 2, iittala Senta is a distinctively Scandinavian stemware. Designed by Alfredo Häberli in 2004, the Stella glasses have a relaxed style that is easy to hold and a pleasure to use. The stem tapers gently under the bowl, creating a natural, almost sensual hollow for your finger and thumb. Picking up a Senta glass, the sensation created by this hollow will make you wonder why all wineglasses aren’t made like this.


$35.00

3. Garden

Kitchen Window Herb box

Flower boxes stuffed with herbs -- a delicious way to spruce up the front of our house! We're getting 3 -- one for each window in the kitchen.


$75.00

Potted Lemon Tree

Ben's has serious plans to expand his list of "life passions" into gardening. Support him with his first horticultural endavour -- a potted lemon tree! (Idea brazenly stolen from Ima)


$150.00

Garden Gnome

Help Ben and Vivian spruce up the exterior of the new home with a Garden Gnome!


$45.00

Upside Down Tomato Planter

We plan to take advantage of the fertile soil in our backyard and the beautiful weather in the Bay Area. We hear this thing really works and will make you a delicious tomato salad as a thank you!


$25.00

4. Charity

A Donation in Our Names - United Way

United Way envisions a world where all individuals and families achieve their human potential through education, income stability and healthy lives. As we approach our wedding, we reflect on the love and good fortune that blesses us, and we hope we can share that with others. Consider making a donation on our behalf to the United Way.


$50.00

A Donation in Our Names - Camfed

When you educate a girl in Africa, everything changes. She’ll be three times less likely to get HIV/AIDS, earn 25 percent more income and have a smaller, healthier family. As we approach our wedding, we reflect on the love and good fortune that blesses us, and we hope we can share that with others. Consider making a donation on our behalf to Camfed.


$50.00

A Donation in Our Names - Tzu Chi

The shared goal of Tzu Chi volunteers is to cultivate sincerity, integrity, faith, and honesty within while exercising kindness, compassion, joy, and selflessness to humanity through concrete actions. Transcending the bounds of race, nationality, language, and religion, they serve the world under the notion that “when others are hurting, we feel their pain; when others suffer, we feel their sorrow”. As we approach our wedding, we reflect on the love and good fortune that blesses us, and we hope we can share that with others. Consider making a donation on our behalf to Tzu Chi.


$50.00

5. Furniture

Corbett Table from Room and Board

Finding a table big enough for Ben's ambitions and stylish enough for Vivian's sensibility is not easy

"Celebrating the natural beauty of solid wood, Corbett brings warmth to your dining space. This modern, flexible table will comfortably host dinner parties or homework sessions."


$200.00

Ansel Chair from Room and Board

We promise to put these chairs to excellent use! We're going all out and hoping for 10.

"Ansel combines modern sensibility with amazing versatility. A box cushion, solid wood legs and an angled back make it beautiful. The stain-resistant fabric makes it a practical choice."


$225.00

6. Fun

Labradoodle

With Ben on the road so often for work, Vivian needs a real companion. The labradoodle will be in good company; there are more dogs than children in canine-friendly San Francisco


$100.00

Tennis Lessons

Ben has maybe too many "#1 Life Passions" (charcuterie, electronics, traveling, among others). Help us work off the calories from the cured meats and make tennis a shared passion!


$200.00

Pig Roast at 110 Elsie Street

We plan to celebrate our first anniversary with a pig roast at our home in San Francisco, CA. Contribute to the pig and guarantee your choice of cut.


$50.00

SF Opera Tickets

Did you know San Francisco Opera is the second largest opera house in the US? We were admittedly incredulous about Yaffa and Paul's gift of opera music for the wedding but loved it and want more! Send us to the opera and let us know what you would like us to see in the 2010-2011 season: sfopera.com.


$150.00