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out of town shower

stephkortanstephkortan member
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I live in Las Vegas, which is where I am holding my wedding.  The problem is all of our family and friends live out of state.  My MOH and mother are planning my shower in Ohio a month prior to the wedding.  My fiance and I are trying to decide the best way to manage all of our gifts.  Do we ship them all back? Do we rent a car and drive back to Nevada?  Do we ask for guests to ship the gifts to our home?  Do we ask for gift cards (seems impersonal)  Or do I forego the shower all together?

Any advice much needed?
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Re: out of town shower

  • AdeleDazeemAdeleDazeem member
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    edited December 2011
    You either rent a car and drive your gifts home or foot the bill for shipping them home.  I dislike the idea of having a shower but all the guests are required to send the gifts to the bride's home before or after the party.  A shower is for physical gift opening, the end.

    I have also heard of some people returning the gifts at a local store after the shower, flying home, and then re-buying the gifts once they are home.

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  • marissa_clairemarissa_claire member
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    edited December 2011
    Options one and three.  Don't ask guests to pay to have the gift shipped - especially when that means there's no point to the shower.
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  • afrownfeafrownfe
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    edited December 2011
    Drive the gifts home yourself. That's what my fiance and I are doing - our wedding is in Michigan (where we live) and our shower is going to be in Illinois (where most of my fiance's family lives), and we're going to drive all the gifts back to Michigan ourselves. Of course, ours is a shorter drive (only 4-5 hours), but even in your case, I think it makes sense to drive the gifts home yourself. Your family and guests have gone to the trouble to host your shower and buy you presents - you can certainly take a day (or two) to drive your presents back to your house. It's an inconveinence for one or two days, and then you get to keep and use the presents forever. Seems fair to me!
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  • laurprezlaurprez
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    edited December 2011
    I posted this same question a few days ago...here were my responses

    http://forums.theknot.com/default.aspx?path=http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/special-topic-wedding-boards_pre-wedding-parties

    I still haven't figured out what I'm going to do...LOL
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  • stephkortanstephkortan member
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    edited December 2011
    Thanks everyone.  I realize this can go very badly and make me look very ungrateful since I am already expecting people to fly to my wedding.  I think I will just leave the gifts at my sister's house in Ohio and ship them slowly to myself over the few months after my wedding.  It's not like I haven't survived without these items my whole life :)
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