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Newer registries shower
couples with practicalities
By Amanda Schindler
StaffReporter
Meant to stave off the hassle of returning duplicated
or unwanted gifts, gift registries have always been conve
nient
Now the gifts available through registries are becom
ing practical, too.
Today, registries promising a wide range of practical
gift choices are challenging traditional gift registries
found in large department stores.
For instance, through Target’s Chib Wedd gift registry,
couples can register for anything from grills to movies,
, said Candace Slocum, head cashier for Target, 333 N.
48th St.
“(Club Wedd) gives our guests an opportunity to reg
ister for more practical items,” she said. “Some people
can’t afford china, and wedding guests usually have such
a wide range of spending limits.”
Even the larger department stores concede that gift
i registration has gotten more realistic over the past few
years.
Coleman, who will be married in May 1999, said her most
important gifts would be pots, pans and towels - “things
we need.” "
“We won’t use the stemware and china and crystal,”
she said. “They’re like a little bonus.”
Some couples learn tljis the hard way, said one
Dillard’s employee.
“A lot of people register for china and come back 10
years later and say they haven’t used it once,” the employ
ee said.
At an average cost of $40 per place setting, that’s an
expensive mistake, she said. She recommended couples
“don’t register for anything too frilly.”
Linda Peck-Allan, whose niece, Hillary Peck, will be
married in November, said there was no longer a need for
nice china because “we don’t do formal entertaining like
we used to.”
When Peck-Alien remarried a few years ago, she said
she registered for fun, usable gifts.
“I got Super-Soakers,” she said. “Frou-frou out; prac
ticality in.”
Couples are being
more-practical,” said
Denise Koci, a J.C.
Penney Gift Registry
Consultant in Gateway
Mall. “They’re regis
tering for what they’ll
be using right now.”
Small appliances
like toasters and coffee
makers have taken over
as the most pdpular
items, Slocum said.
China, flatware and
stemware were the
most popular 30 years
ago, she said. 1
About 450 couples
register at J.C. Penney
each year, she said. '
Prospective brides
at Surry’s 16 th annual
agreed practical gifts
are becoming more
popular.
'■ “Things are more
casual nowadays,” said
Ann Hanson, of Table
Rock. “It’s a sign of the
times, of a more casual
lifestyle.”
Her daughter, Beth
’ Hanson of Bancroft,
said it reflected
changes in family
structure, where both
husband and wife work
fulltime.
“Most couples will
„ both be working now,” ^
she said, “whereas,
back then, the woman
was usually a house
wife.”
Laura Slaughter of
Grand Island said ’90s
brides are more likely
to shrug off customs.
P “Couples now are
not afraid to break tra
dition,” she said.
- Her daughter Heidi