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[Lipstickdiva]

I do what most others do.  A gift off the registry for the shower and cash for the wedding.

[shoptilyadropagain]

For the shower, I normally give a gift card from where the bride is registered.  I hate buying from those registrys.  I can never find the item in the store (even though it usually has the aisle number, etc. to help you find it) or things I want are out of stock, etc.  The only time I do a registry gift is when I order from the place online.  .I do a check for the wedding. 

[missy1]

I don't buy from the registry. (op's invite with bridal registry inside, tacky imo). I give a gift card for HER (bath & body etc.). Wedding, I give cash.

[IamMrsG]

Times must have changed more than I realized.  To me, the shower is a bridal shower, and gifts should be personal items for the bride.  The wedding gifts are entirely different, and that's where the registry comes into play.

[Daisy Sunflower]

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@CaitlinH wrote:

What is your wedding gift etiquette?

This bride in particular had her wedding registry printed on her bridal shower invite.

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How tacky!

[surfk]

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[faeriemoon]

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@Daisy wrote:

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@CaitlinH wrote:

What is your wedding gift etiquette?

This bride in particular had her wedding registry printed on her bridal shower invite.

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How tacky!

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I agree.  I'm guessing in some screwball way she thought she was being "helpful."

[IamMrsG]

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@surfk wrote:

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@IamMrsG wrote:

Times must have changed more than I realized.  To me, the shower is a bridal shower, and gifts should be personal items for the bride.  The wedding gifts are entirely different, and that's where the registry comes into play.

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That is true. Or once was true. Or can be true if its strictly a bridal shower.

But today, more and more, its a "shower" which is for and includes both the bride and the groom. That makes the gift registry for such or gift ideas trickier and more wedding gift-like in general.

But I agree. If its a bridal shower intended to create a trousseau of sorts for the bride, then that is most traditional. And that registry (if there is to be one) should have a whole other slew of selections to choose from as opposed to wedding gift ideas).

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Sounds like a ploy for double gift receipt to me.

[riley1]

If it's a couple I've known a long time, I make them a quilt. Otherwise it's a gift off the registry and check for the wedding

[CelticCrafter]

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@Daisy wrote:

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@CaitlinH wrote:

What is your wedding gift etiquette?

This bride in particular had her wedding registry printed on her bridal shower invite.

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How tacky!

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How about "be a dear and wrap in clear" printed under the registry stores.....