Day after wedding celebrations

We are not seeing anyone the day after the wedding, and we're not opening gifts in front of them - that's odd.

We'll have friends visiting that we generally only get to see once a year, so if FH wants to to a morning-after brunch with his best friend I'm certainly not going to object. Probably not going to do anything with families though.

I haven't heard of this. Our guests are all from out of town so we will probably be having a low key day with breakfast, and saying goodbye to folks. I would want to wait until all of that calmed down to open gifts.

When I got married, we opened our gift the day after the wedding at his parents house with some of his siblings and spouses.

When my daughter got married, we hosted a brunch at the hotel (where the reception was) for the immediate family and any bridal party members who could join us. There were 12 people at brunch. They opened their gifts there and then the gifts went to my house until they returned form their honeymoon....which I paid for...no honey fund. ;-)

I don't think that's usually what happens. I'm sure some people do it this way but I don't know anyone who opens gifts in front of family the next day. One- most people don't have wedding gifts to open. It's usually just cards. Two- most people pay for their own weddings. I'm a grown adult. It's non of my parents business what we receive as gifts. That's just weird.

@Kathy- why wouldn't the gifts just go to their house? Maybe it's an age thing. I'm 38 and moved out of my Dads house when I was 18. It would be weird to have anything go to my Dad or Mom's house.

For some reason my mom is so excited to see us open gifts. I don't really get it but if it means that much to her I will allow it. I will probably invite his immediate family and ours over the day after the wedding if they chose to come. It's going to be a pain though because we are doing a day after brunch, opening presents then heading to our honeymoon. Busy busy!

I will have just turned 28 when we get married. We are building a house right now so we are just going to buy our kitchen needs.

We were thinking of doing a brunch, since we will be out of town. Probably won't do any gift opening though

I think that seems a bit odd. We are leaving the next afternoon for honeymoon anyway so we will open gifts when we get back

I've been to day-after parties for weddings where it's just, like, a lunch or something. Nothing fancy. But they never opened their gifts in front of everyone. I feel like that's a sorta intimate moment between the new hubby and waifu.