Bridal Shower Canceled due to Covid - Should we have it post wedding?

I say go for it. People understand. I am splitting my wedding into two because that's what's easier for us! Some people have baby showers after the baby is born!

I hope you recovered okay. It might be fine to do the shower afterwards. It would be sort of an after-party.

People will likely already bought you wedding gifts by then and even factored in that they didn't have to spend on a separate shower present. Bottom line is that a shower is an obligatory gift giving event. Post wedding, you are no longer a bride, and it would be considered gift grabby. If anyone is interested in sending you a gift they can always ask about or look up your registry.

You can always invite people to a party, of course. It can be a postponed thank you to your bridal party, or just a casual gathering of loved ones. You don't even have to label it. I just would not call it a shower or ask for gifts.

I agree with CM. Chances are since you were not able to have a shower, the amount some planned on spending may have already been factored into the wedding gift.

For some, the shower gift is the wedding gift, for others it's a two part. Some spent for the shower, the rest is given at the wedding. I don't think there is anything wrong with hosting another get together (as long as those who were invited to the wedding are the only ones invites to a post wedding event). You can do something like a recipe shower or just a post bridal luncheon.

I’m so sorry but I have to agree with CM, it does feel gift grabby. I’m not having a shower at all since we’ve lived together for many years, only registered for a few “upgrade” items for the kitchen

Do you mean the shower was totally planned, invitations went out, supplies bought, and then someone got covid and the shower was cancelled? In that case I think you can reschedule for after the wedding since people may have gotten gifts/been prepared for it already. Or, people can just have the option of bringing the shower gifts to the wedding when they come.

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I think this is the best advice. Parties are nice, but not everything needs to be wedding-related. Every single person alive during COVID had stuff cancelled and not rescheduled. So, that wouldn't be reason enough to have a post-wedding shower.

I m so sorry you had to cancel your shower, that must have been disappointing. However if was invited to a bridal shower that had to be cancelled I would feel sad for the bride and still send a gift. I would find it odd to receive an invite to a bridal shower after the wedding. I think if people had already bought you gift they ll send it anyway and if they didn't they may add to the wedding gift. This is definitely a know your crowd type thing though. Best of luck to you!

That really sucks to have to cancel like that. If I were in your guests' shoes, I'd probably just send my shower gift and then carry on with whatever I planned to give for the wedding. A post-wedding shower might rub some people the wrong way since the wedding already happened. You could do something like a welcome back "stock the bar" party (assuming you'll be going on your honeymoon right after the wedding), and everyone could bring some kind of alcohol as a gift. Hoping your wedding is twice as fun to make up for your shower