Registry and Gift Forum
How to gifts the gifts home from the reception?
My fiance and I are in a big debate on this topic. Neither of us want the following:
1) Our parents to be responsible for getting the gifts back to our apartment, they've done too much already.
2) To tell our wedding party they can't drink so they can drive our gifts home.
3) To leave the gifts at the venue. They're not open the next day, and god only knows what could happen to them.
4) To take the gifts home ourselves. Or with us to the hotel.
Neither of our families live in town, so they will all be staying at a hotel as will pretty much all of our guests. I thought maybe we could hire someone's kid brother or something like that? At this point I'm willing to pay someone to make this battle go away!
Thoughts? Suggestions?
1) Our parents to be responsible for getting the gifts back to our apartment, they've done too much already.
2) To tell our wedding party they can't drink so they can drive our gifts home.
3) To leave the gifts at the venue. They're not open the next day, and god only knows what could happen to them.
4) To take the gifts home ourselves. Or with us to the hotel.
Neither of our families live in town, so they will all be staying at a hotel as will pretty much all of our guests. I thought maybe we could hire someone's kid brother or something like that? At this point I'm willing to pay someone to make this battle go away!
Thoughts? Suggestions?
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Re: How to gifts the gifts home from the reception?
FDIL was MOH in a wedding 2 months ago. The morning of the wedding the bride gave FDIL a list of about 13 things that were her "duties" for the day. Once of which included her loading up all the gifts and taking them to the couples home for them (!) - she didn't ask, she told her. FDIL duties, per the list, included being at the couples new home to help the bride OUT of her dress. This couple spent their wedding night at their house and left on the honeymoon the next morning too. I can't recall what the other chores were. I think ASKING people ahead of time if they would be available for these things is the way to go. In our case, we knew we had enough family that would be there at the end that we didn't ask but we ended up having several groomsmen just line up and start carrying stuff out for us.
Our head server helped us bring our gifts upstairs to our room after the reception. If we weren't staying at the same location, our parents or siblings would have probably offered to take them for us.
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If that is the case, you are going to have to ask someone to help you. The key point is to ask nicely. It is not a requirement that your wedding party or anyone else do this for you. But if you ask nicely, I'm sure someone will help.
ETA: rereading your post, I'd just take them back to the hotel with you. If that is where everyone is staying, lots of people will be going there so you'll have plenty of transportation. Then just take them home with you the next day (or send them home with your relatives if you are leaving right away). I think it is more of a hassle to ask someone to make a separate trip to take them to your apartment for you. They are your gifts, they are your responsibility to deal with (not your wedding party or anyone else).