Online gift registry does not work in store

Hi there,<br> <br> My fiancee and I created a gift registry online a while ago so we could get a number and send out our invites. We then went to different stores around Gauteng, but were told the system was offline (I posted on Hellopeter about that as well, and we were promptly responded to. Thanks for that!). However, when we went into the store we were told we cannot add items in store to a gift registry created online. However we are loathe to add items online as we cannot determine the feel and quality of said item. We can go in store, but it would be rather inconvenient to add items one by using the web. Is there anyway of keeping our gift registry number and adding items to it in store?