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June 25, 2018

Cash, charity, honeymoon: Wedding registries evolve

By LEANNE ITALIE
Associated Press

NEW YORK — Wedding registries remain popular and the nature of gifting has morphed into a broader range of options, including cash registries, that are being embraced by friends and family, a new survey shows.

The average wedding registry was valued at $4,835 last year, featuring 125 items, according to the survey by the wedding site TheKnot.com of nearly 7,000 engaged or recently married couples. Nearly 9 in 10 couples, or 88 percent of the American couples who responded, set up registries in 2017, about the same number as the year before, the findings showed.


 
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