After a luncheon of salad and sweets, gifts were bestowed, wrapped in silvery paper. But times are changing, wedding watchers say. More bridegrooms are playing an active role in planning weddings and registering for gifts. It's a great time to get together with your friends, and the grooms want to be part of it. That's how the tool shower was born.
Guys lean toward cordless drills and CD players rather than tea towels.
But check out Bride's or Martha Stewart Living's wedding issue full of ads for trailing gowns, polished silver, china and crystal. Nowhere, the wrench. When Tony Darnberger's financee arranged a surprise tool shower for him to celebrate their upcoming marriage six years ago, he recalls, he was a little embarrassed. My wife and I had just finished school and we needed it all. I had no power tools.