My FMIL is throwing a shower in my FI's hometown where I don't know any of the women invited aside from her, my FSIL, and my mom. Apparently a lot of the women invited are asking her what personal gifts to get me (they don't want to get registry gifts for the shower just for the wedding, which I find strange since the shower is for the wedding but okay). Basically, they want to shop for the shower like it's my birthday so they want to get things like clothes, dvds, giftcards, body lotion/perfume, etc. I really have no idea how to answer this (just like I don't usually answer this question on my birthday and people usually just give gift cards lol). I guess it's weird to me because I don't know any of these women so I'm not so sure how they can pick out a personal gift? No real question here I suppose, but did any of you experience this or do you think it's slightly strange?