Card shower?

I just recently went to the bridal shower for my SIL and the shower was in Virginia (because that's where her family was) but she lives in Wisconsin. A couple people bought off the registry and had it ship to her house, but most didn't think that far ahead and brought things to give her and after the shower she boxed everything up into one bigger box and just shipped it back to Wisconsin.
Even if you were to register for gift cards, if your attendees are anything like the one at the shower I was at, there's no guarantee they'll buy off the registry anyways. Several people, myself included, didn't.

You can just have people ship it to your home. Because I feel like people would still buy you physical gifts in addition to the cards anyway

View Quoted Comment Most in our circle don't buy off the registry and when they do they don't do it in the correct way so that it says bought already. My sister had 4 of the same bouncy seat two of the same strollers at her baby shower lol. I dont want to have to pay to ship things home. So I wanted to make sure that a gift card shower wasn't frowned upon

View Quoted Comment My family and friends never ship anything. They like to show up with something in their hands. But I ship gifts all the time and still bring a card

I might not include it in the invite, but I would have your bridesmaids spread it by word of mouth, like, "Heads up, the bride is traveling, so gift cards are appreciated!"

If you're comfortale with it, a friend of mine had a lingerie shower and it was so fun! Lingerie would hardly take up any space on your travels home.

View Quoted Comment That's true! I'm not really the lingerie kind of girl. But I need to start! I'm gonna think about that one!

Are you driving? Could you drive the gifts home? If it's fine in your circle, I think that's okay. But if I was invited to a card shower I'd probably bring a physical gift regardless, I don't really see the point in a cash shower.

I am driving but my sisters are flying into my new city from our hometown and then we are driving to the city where the shower is along with our two daughters so my car is full. a few physical gifts would be fine but I wouldn't be able to transport a lot of gifts

I live in CO but my wedding is in NC and my shower was in SC. I have the Zola online registry which ships directly to me. My shower hostess suggested gift cards to people. Only one person bought something off Zola and everyone else preferred the ease of gift cards or just gave me cash. It turned out great. I did not open the envelopes at the shower, we just celebrated together and played games and then I sent the thank you notes afterward.

I think that this is a know ur crowd kind of thing. I would ask whoever is doing the invites to do an card invite - there are bridal card shower templates for invites out there. I usually would say put it on the website but it doesn’t sound like ur crowd look on website.

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Sounds good to me!!!!