Some of my guests at my upcoming FSIL-hosted bridal shower are very considerately shipping the gifts to our home across the country prior to the Pennsylvania Bridal Shower. Is it appropriate to thank the guests in person for the gifts *and* give them their thank you card at that time? Or should I just wait and mail them all?
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Re: Giving Bridal Shower Thank You Cards in Person?
I personally would save the gifts and open them at the shower. It may feel awkward for people if it appears they did not give you a gift at an event specifically for that purpose. In that case, you would mail them with the rest of the cards.
If you'd rather open them beforehand, then I think it would be fine to give the thank-you in person.
Just don't open the gifts at the shower and give them the thank-you at the the same time. Notes need to be specific so that would be pretty rude to pre-write them IMO!
I'm guessing the majority of the gifts will be shipped to our home and will be unable to be opened at the shower. So is it appropriate to hand out thank you cards at the shower, or should I wait for a different opportunity, or should I just mail all of the thank you cards?
Open the gifts when you receive them and mail the thank-you notes right away.
@spockforprez Yeah, my wording was a bit ambiguous. Because we're planning the wedding long distance there are two showers being hosted, both far from me (and not far for my guests). So I'm traveling for them and that makes this advice twice as useful
What you do is send me a TY note when you receive the crockpot. You mail it to me from TX. Then, after you open the ladle or cookbook, you mention to everyone in the room that this will go great with the crockpot that I had shipped to your house, "Wow, thank you!" Then when you get home to TX after the shower, you send me another TY note for the ladle or cookbook.
Don't use any of the gifts until after the wedding.
Maybe this was wrong but I wanted to make sure I thanked guests for each gift they gave me, rather than just one or the other. As for the bolded, this seems redundant to me when they are essentially part of the same gift. If you have both the crockpot and the ladle at the same time you wouldn't expect two thank you notes.
I vote send them in the mail only because I enjoy getting something in the mail that isn't junk mail or a bill.