I will be getting married in the place where I grew up, which is not where my fiancé and I now live. So in that respect, it's essentially a destination wedding, even though it's not a long or terribly expensive flight for many of our guests (CA to CO). I have family there and visit a few times a year, so planning is not such a problem. The gifts, however, are a different story. First of all, we don't expect out-of-town guests to get us anything. We are only having a wedding to celebrate the fact that we love each other and want to share that with the people we love, so their presence is all that is requested. That said, I know some people will still give gifts (especially the in-town guests) and I'm not sure how this works when the couple lives in a different location. We don't want to haul all this stuff back to CA. Is there some kind of wedding protocol for these situations? Can you, for example, register for gifts and leave the option for the gift-giver to pay for a particular gift but allow for pick-up of the gift in the couple's local store?
Thanks!