My friend is getting married in October and their registered at one place and there isn't much on it and they have quite a few guests. I'm hoping they'll find another place to register, but I don't think they are.
But I didn't realize that just giving cash is okay. I don't know why I didn't think about that... thanks for curing my stupidity.
I've also had a lot of luck with gift certificates. When I worked at Macy's people asked for GCs with our little wedding card cover things. And there is a website that old job went to get our Christmas gifts. Basically you can pick from all kinds of GCs or get one general GC and then let the couple pick what they want it to go to. giftcertificates.com is the site. And this officially ends my spam message.