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Travelling Bridal Shower?

runningmangorunningmango
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in Arizona-Phoenix
Hi ladies, Wondering if anyone else is running into this and how you're approaching... So, I'm from Chicago but moved to Phoenix 3 years ago. My fiance and I are getting married in Sedona. All of my family and close friends are in Chicago. However, most of my bridesmaids are here in AZ. As far as girlfriends go, I'm incredibly lucky and have equal amounts of close friends here in AZ and in CHI. So my mom and sister want to throw me a shower in CHI but seeing as I wouldnt' really be able to bring gifts back with me, they're not sure what they're supposed to do/put on the invites? My bridesmaids here plan on throwing me a shower as well, but seeing as my family is coming out for the wedding, I don't expect them to come all the way here for a shower too. Has anyone else dealt with this? What do you do? TIA Sarah
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  • andreaadamandreaadam
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    edited December 2011
    We are planning a wedding in Minnesota (where I'm from and where family still is), but FI is from Chicago and has a ton of family and friends there. We are going to have showers in both places. I've heard it's tacky to mention gifts on the invitation, so they may put a link to our webpage on the invites. From there they can find our registry info where we would also mention our wishes. They can also talk to either set of parents to find out. The people that are invited should know that anything we get we either have to fly back with or we have to pay to ship. HTH
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  • mresendezmresendez member
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    edited December 2011
    I had this situation as well. My mom's side is in Utah, half my dad's side is in California, the other half in Texas, and I grew up internationally, so really no one was in the same place. An aunt on my mom's side threw me a shower up in Utah. I was able to fit everything to bring it back, but the plan was to have some close family members there bring the gifts I couldn't fit with them when they came for the wedding. Then I had another shower here in Phoenix. It was thrown by my dad's side of the family. We invited the people we wanted to come, regardless of where they lived. I was lucky because a lot of people ended up being able to travel to be here for it. I realize Chicago is a lot farther away, but hopefully that helps. :)
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  • runningmangorunningmango
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    edited December 2011
    Thanks ladies! Yeah I definitely don't want any mention of gifts or registry on the invites, but I also would hate for people to show up with gifts that I can't bring back, and I dont' want to ship stuff either. I mentioned to my mom, that maybe if people ask her about that, she could tell them to just have the gifts sent to my house here, but that day put a pic of the gift in the card or something? I even feel tacky saying that, but I don't know how else to handle it...especially bc if I ship stuff and it gets damaged I'm guessing I'd be SOL...ah well I guess we'll just see what happens! Thanks again!
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  • trishthudishtrishthudish
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    edited December 2011
    I had this same situation one BS here and one in KC. For the most part, I got gift certificates for my KC BS. I received a few items from my BB&B registry which were to heavy to pack so we took them to the KC BB&B who gave us store credit and then just went back to the PHX BB&B to pick them back up.  The only downfall to this was that some of the items were purchased with a coupon so we would have had to come out of pocket for the remaining discount. Luckily, I've been saving my BB&B coupons and ended up not having to do that, but it could have ended up that we would have to pay extra for our gifts! Just a PSA about BB&B registries: they will give cash back for any returned item even without a receipt if it was on your registry.
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