Opening cards at shower
Beachy730
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Forgive me if this gets asked all the time, I didn't see it in my quick glance over recent posts.
Did you open cards at your shower? As in the cards not attached to a physical gift. I did not at my bridal shower because there were a lot of physical gifts to open, and I felt awkward opening a card to basically announce someone gave us cash or a gift card.
However my baby shower is OOT for me, and while there is still about a week before it, most of the items purchased off of it have either been shipped to me already or were given to me at my local shower last weekend. Many people have told my mom that they are just doing gift cards knowing we are traveling, so I don't know how many physical gifts will be at this shower to open. There will be around 45 people or so at this shower.
Would you in this case open the cards as well in front of everyone? Or just still open the physical gifts?
Re: Opening cards at shower
I only got 3 envelopes that were "just cards" (with checks, etc. in them) so it wasn't a big deal to open them.
As far as cards attached to gifts, I opened them enough to see who the gift was from and then opened the gift without reading
Yes, I opened up the cards. Whether w/ a gift or not - I didn't read them in detail, though. If there was a message from them, I'd read it later. I just basically looked at who it was from.
Regardless if there was a GC or $$ in the ca
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At all three of my showers, I did open all the cards for the main purpose of knowing who to say thank you to once the gift was opened. Mind you, I did send formal thank you cards as well, but I also think an initial verbal thank you is warranted at the
Thanks ladies, I will likely open them then.
FWIW, in my social circle they usually aren't ever opened. I don't know if it's generally because there are big showers and people don't want everyone to sit through gifts that long, or what the
I think at showers, you should open the gifts. I'm going to assume that these people didn't buy off the registry. People love giving outfits and baby accessories that aren't on the registry.
I've been to many showers, and I always decide to
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