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matuofm
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Honeymoon/Leaving Gifts
Since we're going on vacation tomorrow, this has just popped in my head:
For those of you who are going on your honeymoons right after the wedding, what are you doing about the wedding gifts? First of all, are you opening them immediately, or waiting until you get back?
Second of all (this is the part that was nagging at me) are you leaving the gifts in your empty house/apartment? Maybe I'm being paranoid. I'm just thinking of my apartment neighbors noticing that we got married...noticing us hauling box after box into the apartment...noticing us hauling our suitcases back out...and coming home to find an empty apartment.
Should we take the gifts to our parents' instead of our own place? Am I the only person who's worried about this? It wouldn't be the first time that my imagination worries ran away with me.
For those of you who are going on your honeymoons right after the wedding, what are you doing about the wedding gifts? First of all, are you opening them immediately, or waiting until you get back?
Second of all (this is the part that was nagging at me) are you leaving the gifts in your empty house/apartment? Maybe I'm being paranoid. I'm just thinking of my apartment neighbors noticing that we got married...noticing us hauling box after box into the apartment...noticing us hauling our suitcases back out...and coming home to find an empty apartment.
Should we take the gifts to our parents' instead of our own place? Am I the only person who's worried about this? It wouldn't be the first time that my imagination worries ran away with me.
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Re: Honeymoon/Leaving Gifts
If you live close to your parents, I don't see the harm in taking the stuff to their house. Just do whatever you are most comfortable with and that won't have you stressing while on your honeymoon.
This is what we'll be doing:
1. My parents are coming back with us to our hotel (romantic, I know), so we can open all cards and sign all checks that night. They will then deposit the money for us on Monday.
2. Any gifts we get (which won't be many - Italians typically give money at showers), my parents will ship to us when we are back from our honeymoon
3. Any gifts we receive while we are away for the 3 weeks for the honeymoon, I will be finding a trustworthy neighbor to look over our porch and stick them in her garage/house.
My parents/relatives just put everything in my mom's car and all the gifts and cards went back to her house. We didn't open them until we got back from the honeymoon.
I can't imagine opening them that night because I'd be paranoid one would get lost in the shuffle, plus we were TIRED. I don't think we would have appreciated them as much then.
It was fun opening them when we got back--another exciting thing to look forward to!