Avoiding getting registry packages in the mail.

I think it’s sweet that the aunt wants to see the reaction regardless. There’s nothing wrong with that! It might of just been easier for the aunt to do it that way. I’m sure there was just a mix up when she was purchasing them and didn’t realize it was going to your house. I don’t think there’s really any way to prevent something like that.

View Quoted Comment Well to me it was more of a relief. Right now, I am stressing out cause we really have no way of bringing the gifts back. I am trying to find a way. My fmil picked a restur

View Quoted Comment Sorry, it cut off. But the resturant is an hour away from where I live. So that's why I'm a little upset cause now it's more presents I have to bring back to my house.

This happened to us once as well. One of our guests wanted the gift to be sent to her house, but it was instead shipped to our house. Make sure whichever store it is allows the purchaser to ship to their home when buying off your registry (not all do which is dumb).
Then, just play along. The aunt was nice enough to buy a gift and is attending your shower. There was just a mixup in shipping but she should still get the joy of seeing you open your gift.

I had a similar problem when I bought something off a registry through Target for a friend of mine. I thought the package was going to be shipped to my place but once I placed the order I realized it was being sent to her address which wasn't what I wanted to do. I cancelled the order and just had everything ready for pick up at Target instead. It ended up being a big fiasco though, because then the gifts didn't appear off the registry.

She did purchase those gifts herself and was planning to bring them. They just got shipped to you by accident. I don't think there is a way to avoid it. Your guest has to make sure they don't have the ship gifts to the couples address box checked.
We used some shower gift cards last night to purchase something we really want from our registry that keeps going out of stock, and I had to make sure to uncheck that box so it would come to our house, instead of my usual work shipping address.

When you set up your registry, you provided the address for shipped packages to go to so no, there isn't a way to keep from getting them unless you change the address you have on your registry. It is possible that she just didn't pay attention or checked the wrong box at check out and had them sent to you vs to her.

A lot of daughter's registry items were shipped to our home (MOB/FOB) because that's what daughter listed on the registry. Some guests didn't even know they came here. Her MIL was flying in for the shower and her gift of a KitchenAid was delivered to my house. I wrapped it and took it to the restaurant where I was hosting the shower and daughter opened it there for the benefit of her MIL. I get this seems inconvenient for you, but I'd try to take it in stride. These are guests who did something incredibly nice for you by buying you a gift off a list of things you selected. For lots of guests the entire point of a shower is watching the bride open the gifts they chose for her. If your car is super small, it's likely you're going to have trouble transporting your gifts anyway, so I might brainstorm what other options you have. Do you have local friends/family who will be attending, especially someone with a larger SUV, that you could ask for help in transporting gifts? Although daughter's shower guest list was all women, FSIL and FOB were our designated "shower sherpas" who schlepped decorations and gifts to the restaurant for us, then went and did a "guys thing," then came back to the restaurant at the end of the shower to schlep all the gifts back to their apartment. There were only about 25 guests at daughter's shower and we filled her mid-sized SUV and a very large sedan (with a trunk big enough to transport bodies in a mob movie -- lol!). Both were packed. Worse comes to worse, maybe you can rent a larger vehicle for the day and/or plan to store stuff at your mom's or FMIL's until you can arrange transportation to your place. Good luck!