Should I open and use these wedding gifts before my wedding?
We received our first registry gift (yay!) and the wedding is now two months away (eep!). The gift came wrapped, so we do not know exactly what it is, and we do know that the senders will not be able to attend the wedding. Is it okay to open the gift now, so we can write a thank-you note and send it out ASAP, or do we wait until the wedding to open it and send a thank-you? If we do open the gift early, is it bad form to start using it?
Skip the receiving line and do photos together instead
Ah, the receiving line. That thing that many couples sorta dread, where you stand there awkwardly smiling and hugging people and maybe feeling awkward (…or worse). We loved Mary & Craig’s solution…
I don’t know if someone got us a wedding gift… should I send a thank you card?
Now that the wedding is over, we have a list of 10 couples who came to the wedding, and did not give anything. It concerns me, because I am hoping that nothing got lost. I just don’t want to mess something up (etiquette wise). And I don’t want to ASK these people if they gave something, in case they didn’t. But the WORST would be not thanking them if they did give something but we just didn’t receive it. What do I do?
Write thank-you notes as you open your shower gifts
Tribesmaid Writeroffiction and her groom had a killer coed wedding shower with trivia games instead of traditional shower games, a blind beer-tasting competition, and they skipped opening gifts at the party. The secret sauce of waiting to open their gifts was that they were able to write their thank-you notes as they opened the gifts.