Is This Normal?

AeroStyle

Hi Ladies,

My shower was this past weekend. My aunt planned it and it was lovely! One weird thing though...FMIL asked my MOH if I wanted her to open presents for me? Ummm....isn't that kind of rude? She said thanks but no thanks, and I opened them myself. I've never seen or heard of this.

As a guest I would rather the bride take the gifts home to open rather than have someone open them for her while she sat there like royalty & had her new things presented to her.

hboo2011

I have seen MOH and BM help open the gifts- unstick tape, break ribbon, pull cards out of envelopes, use a box cutter to open boxes if necessary, all before giving to bride (kinda an assembly line) just so it goes by a lot faster. I am sure that is what your FMIL meant. And yes, that is normal and done a lot.

SuMmErKuTiE

I've never heard of the bride taking the gifts home to open, I've always seen the bride opening the gifts in front of everyone at the shower and yes, I have seen the MOH or one of the BM's helping the bride to open like pp mentioned, peeling back some of the tape or wrapping to move things along quicker. But the bride is still the main opener of each gift and presenting to the crowd what she opened.

The point of the bridal shower is to shower the bride with gifts for her new home with her new husband, and if she doesn't open them and takes them home to open it kind of defeats the point of the shower in the first place.

AeroStyle

I've never actually seem someone take the gifts home, they've always been oepned at the shower. I did have one friend that went to a shower where that happened. Also thoguht that was a rude.  It just seemed weird when she first mentioned it. I pictured her opening everything. Ribbon and stuff makes senese. Thy're tricky!

Juris11

I helped out my friend at her shower by bringing the gifts over to her and another girl wrote down what everyone bought, etc. but I think it would be really weird if someone other than the bride did the physcial opening of the gifts.