Gift for shower

Re: Gift for shower

• ILoveBeachMusic member

  

  August 2017

  Cash as a wedding gift is always appropriate (though since they have a honeyfund and made it clear they would prefer that on their website, I would get a boxed gift because I'm ornery like that).  
  
  You didn't indicate if the bride to be is flying in for the shower but I am assuming she is doing so. Gifts cards aren't really appropriate for a shower. Is she going to be in town for several days? Perhaps she could return the gift to the store and then have it shipped from the store to her home. It really is her responsibility to get her gifts home without her guests having to worry about it. She is the one that agreed to an out of state shower.

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• [Deleted User] member

  

  August 2017

  Yes, she is flying and I am not sure how long she will be in town. I thought of just shipping something to her home from the registry but don't want to show up at the shower empty handed technically speaking. I think I will just buy a gift from the registry and she will figure it out.
  

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• MobKaz member

  

  August 2017

  knottied8057fde89686788 said:

  Yes, she is flying and I am not sure how long she will be in town. I thought of just shipping something to her home from the registry but don't want to show up at the shower empty handed technically speaking. I think I will just buy a gift from the registry and she will figure it out.
  

  I agree with @ILoveBeachMusic.  The bride accepted an OOT shower.  The point of a shower is to receive gifts.  The burden is on the bride to decide how best to get her gifts home.  There are several options, actually.
  
  I have hosted a shower like this.  I purchased a crock pot for the bride and arranged for it to be delivered once she returned from the shower.  For the actual shower, I purchased a ladle and serving spoon.  The card made it clear that these utensils coordinated with the gift she would receive upon return home.  It still enabled me to not show up empty handed, and also allowed the bride an easy way to bring the gifts home with her.  I'm sure if you look at her registry, you would be able to do something similar with something from her list.
  

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• ahoywedding member

  

  August 2017

  @MobKaz has a great idea! Could you get a few things that "go" together and give her the smaller items with a picture of the larger item you shipped to her home? Ugh, this is why I didn't want an OOT shower! (Props on you for asking, and for attending!)

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• southernbelle0915 mod

  

  August 2017

  So she accepted a shower where she's actually just asking for cash.....Eyeroll. 
  
  The point of a shower is physical gifts. If she couldn't arrange to have the gifts sent home, she shouldn't have accepted a shower. 
  
  I would buy her something from her registry and have it shipped to her house. I would print a picture of the thing and put it in a card. You could do something cute like @MobKaz did, too. Like buy her baking pans and then put recipes in her card, or something.

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• holyguacamole79 member

  

  August 2017

  knottied8057fde89686788 said:

  Yes, she is flying and I am not sure how long she will be in town. I thought of just shipping something to her home from the registry but don't want to show up at the shower empty handed technically speaking. I think I will just buy a gift from the registry and she will figure it out.
  

  I agree with the idea of a picture in a card.  One of our friends bought us a tall wine bottle rack.  It would've been awkward to carry home, so she just had it shipped & gave me a card with a pic inside.

  
  
  
  
  

  

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