I'm currently living overseas and met a local boy, fell in love and we'll be getting married soon. We decided to have the wedding where we are living since I didn't want to plan a wedding from overseas (among other reasons but that's the biggest) so only my parents, brother and MOH will be coming (most weren't able to afford the $1600+ plane ticket just to get here). A couple months after the wedding my FH and I will visit my hometown and my parents are throwing a reception in our honor to celebrate our marriage and so family and friends are able to meet my FH. After the visit we will be returning to where we're living.
This is where my dilemma begins. I know people want to give gifts as my parents have had people asking about gifts and are encouraging money. I know it's not polite to say anything about gifts on any invitiations. However, I'm very hesitant about not saying anything because we won't have the luggage capacity to transport gifts back to our new home. Not to mention that we have everything we need and any electrical gifts would not work in our country. I know we can return gifts for money/gift cards, but I really don't want to put up with that hassle when we don't have that long with my family. Where my FH and I live, it is common to "ask" for money instead of stuff using a "cutsie" poem. Is there anyway we can communicate with the invitiation that "suff" is NOT appropriate due to airline restrictions. I have thought about the cutsie poem and have one that would be work. I have thought about just asking guests to keep in mind limited space when choosing a gift. (either of these would be put on an insert within the invite) I have also thought about including a card with our new address on it, in hopes of people getting the hint that we won't have room to take back stuff to where we'll be living. There is also the option of setting up a website and putting all that info on there but I don't really have the time.
So does anyone have any ideas? I know there's no good way to do this but I need to know the best way possible and relying only on word of mouth is going to cut it.