Ingram offers suggestions for traditional registries, but has very creative and thorough sections on ideas for some rather unorthodox gifts. For instance, you have your dishes, your crystal, your bedding and a good selection of pots and pans. What you'd really like is to start putting together a look that reflects both your tastes. Ingram suggests registering at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Shops for reproductions of museum pieces, such as hurricane lamps or terra-cotta lanterns. Ace Hardware can help you out here, as can True Value.
Travel agents have registries that allow guests to contribute to the wedding trip.
The couple can pay for the trip on their credit card and once funds have been collected, they receive a check toward the credit card balance. There may be a lifetime of athletic outings in your future. From home mortgages to vintage bottles of wine, couples are registering for things that 20 years ago people would have shaken their heads at. Sometimes it's not the type of gift but the style that's unusual. If you and your intended have discovered an artisan whose work you want to collect, find out if he or she will create a registry so you can fill out settings and serving pieces.