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Quick Tip: Where Do the Gifts Go?
The last thing you want to bother the bride with during the reception is what to do with the wedding gifts and cards at the end of the evening. Take time to ask this question in your pre-wedding meeting(s) with the bride so that you can easily help move the gifts to the appropriate location.
Here are a few popular locations for the wedding gifts:
1. In the bride and groom’s hotel room. If the reception is at the same location where the bride and groom are staying, they may want the gifts to be delivered to their room. Or, they may prefer the gifts to be delivered to a trusted friend or family member’s hotel room instead of their wedding night room.
2. In a trusted family member’s car. Gifts may be placed in a friend or family member’s car at the end of the evening. It is helpful for this person to know in advance that they will be taking the bridal gifts after the reception is over.
3. In a secure storage area at the hotel or venue. The venue may have a secure place to store wedding gifts until morning.
Most wedding planners prefer NOT to transport wedding gifts or cards in their own car due to liability reasons such as if a gift happens to break or a card goes missing.
How do you typically handle the wedding gifts at the end of the evening? Please share in the comments.
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Great post! It’s amazing how much “wedding stuff” has to be tracked. I have a couple of systems in place. 1 List of the wedding items with 3 columns: column 1 bride checks if she has an item (not all brides have toasting flutes, cake cutters etc) and I can’t know if items are missing unless I know they have them in the first place. Column 2 is for me to check off on the wedding day and Column 3 is for me to check off that those items are packed at the end of the night. I also have the bride fill out who is responsible for removing the items. On a couple of occasions I’ve had parents “tell” me it was my job because I was the planner and I was able to pull out the sheet that indicated that someone else (usually them) were responsible. This is especially important when there is a lot of stuff and I know it isn’t going to fit in my car. For the cards I always bring large envelopes and put the cards in those and seal them as to avoid a “Card fell behind the backseat of the car” issue with friends or family and have never had an issue with that.
Thank you for sharing your process Tanis!
This is one of the questions we ask at our final timeline meeting 4-6 weeks before wedding day. On wedding night, who takes the gifts? Part of our service is to load them so we want to know (and want the bride+her parents to know) exactly where they should be. We typically load them in the parents’ car during the reception while everyone is dancing and we have a chance to sneak away and get them all loaded up. 🙂
Thanks for sharing your process Amy. That is super helpful to our community!