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Shower gift sent directly

lisabeatslisabeats member
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FI and I live far away from my hometown, where the wedding will be, and where my family is. My Godmother is throwing me a shower this weekend, for which I'm very excited to go home to attend. In the past week or so, we've received several gifts from family members who will be at the shower. Since we registered here and live here, we used our local address as the listed shipping address for the stores. I appreciate them sending gifts here directly, since that will be a few less we have to worry about bringing back after the wedding. I have been opening and writing notes right away, and including a line about "Looking forward to seeing you Saturday" or something of the like.

My question is, besides thanking them again in person at the shower, should I, or the hostess, acknowledge their gift some other way at the shower? I guess I fear them feeling awkward or something for not having a gift on hand, which obviously I'm not hoping for, especially since we both will know that they've already been very generous. It's highly likely I'm over thinking this, I was just wondering if someone else who's had this situation handled it differently. Thanks for any input, or sense-shaking!
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Re: Shower gift sent directly

  • itzMSitzMS member
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    edited June 2013

    Usually if I do this, I will also bring a card to the shower with a picture or note about the gift. Maybe those people will do the same. At the point you open the card, just say something like "Thank you Aunt Mary for sending the crystal vase to our home. It's truly lovely!"

    If they do not bring a card, I do think the hostess should say after all of the wrapped gifts are opened... "Aunt Mary sent Lisa a beautful crystal vase" "Lisa's friend Sarah Johnson sent two placesettings of china"

     

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  • southernbelle0915southernbelle0915 mod
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    When you're done opening stuff (if you're doing it in front of everyone), you could say "thank you so much for your love and support and for your gifts today and for all the gifts that were sent directly to our home." Kind of a nod to those who went that route.
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  • lisabeatslisabeats member
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    Both of these make a lot of sense! I hope they bring cards, that will make it easy, as I'd definitely feel comfortable saying "thank you for the beautiful card, and the dishes you sent...." If not though, I like what Belle said about just saying it after all the gifts are opened. Many thanks!
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  • sarahdactyIsarahdactyI member
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    I just wanted to add that we just had a similar shower experience! I did not receive the gifts prior to the shower, but many people brought printouts of a picture - some even got quite creative with it! - to put in the card. We didn't make any announcement or anything since everyone had some sort of card and we just read out loud, "Ms. Sue gave us a set of wine glasses!" etc.

    I was also surprised to receive several gift cards. Everyone knew that we were making another stop before returning to our home, so I guess people really did not want to burden us with taking too much carry-on! No complaints here!

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  • nrocke129nrocke129
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    We actually had a glitch with our registry so people who ordered items online to be shipped to them so they could wrap and bring them to the shower actually ended up at our house! My FH opened the gifts to find out who they came from and called them to let them know that they were at our house. He also told them that I was going to wait to open them a day or two before the shower, then acknowledge the gift at the shower. This happened to 10 guests. We had a local shower so my FH wrapped them all and took them to the hall the morning of the shower for me to open there. He wrote the names of the guest on the package so I knew who to acknowledge there, incase they didn't bring a card.
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