Our wedding was almost a month ago, and it was as wonderful as we had hoped it would be. It was an extra surprise for us to come home and see how many thoughtful (registry and non-registry) gifts we had received from our guests. However, I just remember something that happened during the reception that I thought was a little odd, and I wanted to get community input.
While we were making our rounds at the tables, greeting our guests, we had three sets of guests (couples or families, but all family members to us) tell us something along the lines of "Well I guess you've figured out now that we are your wedding gift!" To me, and to my husband, this translated as "We didn't make/buy you anything, so you should just be glad that we came." Needless to say, when we opened and wrote down our gifts from our guests, we did not have anything (card or gift) from these three sets of guests.
I completely understand that not everyone believes in or can get the couple a gift, and I did not expect everyone to get us something. I am certainly happy that all of the people who were able to come did so. I just found it a little off-putting that these people told us that their "presence" was our "present." None of them traveled a great distance (they are all local) to get to our wedding, and they are people we see at least a couple of times a year, and so it was not like this is the first time we have seen them in awhile. Are they expecting us to write them a thank you note for this?
Has anyone else experienced this at their wedding? What do you think about someone telling you that they are your wedding gift?