Honeymoon Registries and Other Twists on Wedding Registries

Heard of the latest trend in wedding registries? Couples are foregoing the traditional wedding registries for a new emerging trend of on-line wedding registries. These new, more convenient registries allow a couple to create their personal wedding and honeymoon registries on-line by listing any gift items they want such as their honeymoon, a home down payment or traditional gifts such as home furnishings. Then friends and family of the couple are allowed to gift cash towards the gift items on the registry. Ultimately, the registry sends the couple the cash in their registry acocunt to spend on their gifts. These registries are proving to be a huge success by helping wedding couples throughout the country better afford the ever-increasing costs of their honeymoon.

Moreover, traditional registries are simply becoming a wave of the past as more and more couples are getting married later in life or are simply choosing to live together before marriage making them more likely to already have established homes and less likely to need traditional gifts such as towels and linens. Hence, signing up with a traditional department store registry and asking friends and family to purchase the latest in housewares when couples already have a full set at home are fastly becoming a thing of the past.

With on-line registries, wedding couples have much more flexibility to purchase many more of the gifts they truly want. Sites like AGreatAffair is a cash gift registry that looks and feels like a traditional registry and allows a couple to register for any gift they want. Guests gift cash towards the gift items in a similar manner as they would purchase a gift off of a traditional registry. It’s virtually out with the old traditional registries and in with the new on-line registries that’s proving to be a better alternative for couples today. Whether couples register for the perfect honeymoon or a home downpayment, one thing is becoming clear – creating a cash gift registry is a tactful and easy way to ask friends and family for the perfect wedding gift - cash.