Something new on old wedding gift registry

0 Comments | Philadelphia Inquirer, The, October, 2006 | by Jennifer Dorazio

Coming soon to a wedding registry near you: power tools, personal electronics, camping gear, even pet products. This is the new face of the wedding registry - and you'd better get used to it. Today's couples might not want Wedgwood, but they sure could use a new mulch drum. Purists may cringe at the downfall of Lenox, the collapse of candelabra.

Great-Aunt Dottie may wonder where the silver chargers and gravy boats went. But experts as seasoned and respected as Peggy Post have declared hobby, home-improvement, or just out-of-the-ordinary wedding registries acceptable - even encouraged. For some couples, the change in wants has come because they're getting married older, or married again, and have already accumulated enough traditional basics. They're now into home DIY...