Display shower

What is a display shower? a shower where you don't open the gifts? Your friends and family should be planning the shower so let them decide how to entertain the guests

@allysia yes it's where your bring gifts wrapped in clear or baskets or not at all and they are put on display rather than opening gifts. And yea they are planning it but I'm somewhat of a control freak lol I'm just curious if anyone else has had showers like this and how it went

I agree with allysia. Whoever is hosting will fill the time. There will likely be food and some games but it's a social thing so there will just be more time for hanging out and talking. You should acknowledge gifts how you would if they brought them to your wedding. If they hand them to you thank them and put them on the gift table and then send a thank you note after the party. Hopefully it will be a fun time! You should not feel bad about people giving u gifts. These are the people closest to you and most likely you would do the same for them.

I hate showers, so I'm not having one. But that is the point of the shower....to open gifts.

This is the first I've ever heard of anything like this. Do they present the gifts to you at some point? Or do they just give them to you when they walk into the shower? - at which point you could simply thank them at that time and write a little bit of an elaborate thank you when you mail yours shower thank you notes. Otherwise, I really don't know much about this type of shower to be much help, sorry.

The display shower I went to was super short. We had brunch, had cake, played a couple games, then left. There was no gap, and I don't think anyone really even got to see the gifts either because we weren't really sure if we were supposed to go look at them or what was going on.

Edited: maybe have the host or someone make an announcement that they're more than welcome to look at the gifts? We had to write our names on a paper that went in front of the gifts.

For my shower, guests were asked to not wrap their gifts. Almost everything came from BBB and had a purple ribbon on it. A few were wrapped and a few in gift bags. So I somewhat had to open/take ribbon off the gifts and hold the item up.

A lot of the ladies seemed to enjoy socializing with each other, during the "unribboning," and not really watching me and the gifts. I certainly didn't care, but it made me wonder why so many people say the main activity of a shower is the gift opening.

I went to a baby shower and the gifts were just left on a table, for people to view. The mother to be didn't touch anything until they were packing up to leave. Althought they were on display, I didn't see a lot of guests, at that end of the room.

That is such a bizarre concept. Like, "hey, just to be clear, the point is STILL the presents, even though we're not opening them!"

This makes me kind of glad that I'm having a super informal shower. Definitely don't have any words of advice for you, OP. Opening in front of everyone is awkward, but I guess you would just send regular thank you cards, and let everyone enjoy the party without discussing the gifts?

The idea of a shower is to shower the bride with love, and yes gifts. These are people who in theory love you and want to enjoy all the excitement leading up to your wedding day! Yes opening gifts can be awkward but I feel that out of courtesy to those who are showering you they should get to see you open gifts. And yes I am a control freak bride too, but your shower is the one aspect of your wedding that you should just go with the flow on, sometimes you need to do things because it is important to others.