Gift Registry Items--Can We Specify Dates To Not Send Gifts During Wedding & Honeymoon?

Ooh no, there's no good way to do that. Also, the stores won't put a "vacation hold" on sending them either (I asked). The way that I handled it was to stop my mail through UPSP and then I signed up for the UPS member thing that was about $40 a year so that I could put a vacation hold through UPS as well.

Spread the word by mouth when you will be away, but I wouldn't include it on the invitations.

Do you have a family member or a friend that lives close to you that you could use their address as the Ship To address? You can try to explain to people this situation but I doubt everyone will listen.

My registries allowed us to put a pre and post shipping address. Maybe you can change it to an alternate address during the time you are away.

We asked our neighbor to grab any packages she saw. Not sure you can do that and even if magically everyone abided... Luck would have it something would be back ordered and get delivered then! Haha

I'm leaving for my honeymoon the Thursday after my Saturday wedding. Janeen is right the stores won't put a vacation hold on it. I just ask my friend to drive by and check for me and put the boxes in my garage.

I put my parents' address as the shipping addresses. It was just easier because there is almost always somebody home. Maybe someone lives close by that you can have everything shipped to them?

I know at my old apartment, you could ask the companies to deliver the packages to the front office if you wanted. Maybe that's an option?

We live in an apartment complex and all packages come to the leasing office so it wasn't a problem for us. For a friend though we went over to their apartment and brought in all gifts while they were gone. Do you have someone that can do that for you?

If there was a vacation hold feature on registries, that would be an amazing feature to have!

My fiance's brother lives in the same city but on the opposite side. We could ask him but we were trying to avoid doing that since he is always so busy with his job and grad school. If there was a way to just take care of it on our end, we'd rather do that. He will also be with us in the Bay Area a few days before and after the wedding.

We will be driving up, so I suppose we could change the shipping address to his parents' address in the Bay Area a couple of weeks before we go and change it back a few days before we return from our honeymoon. That way, they can help us receive any gifts that come in during that time and we can move everything back down to LA afterward.

Thanks, fellow brides!

I had this same issue! We bought a house and moved midway through planning, and we're leaving for two weeks right after the wedding.

We got a PO Box - it was $30 for 6 months, or $60 for the year, and added benefit, nothing *else* is going astray.

And those gifts aren't sitting on my deck!

We just asked a friend, who was already stopping by to check on our kitties, to bring in the mail/packages. Sure you can hold USPS, but I didn't think you could hold ups or fedex (I guess you can do ups thanks Janeen), but since you don't know how packages are coming I think it would be a hassle. I would just try to ask someone to bring your stuff in OR if you have family that lives nearby you see often, change your registry address and have everything shipped to them.

One possibility could be to find someone to check your apartment like care.com. They have a feature where you can find individuals to check your house while on vacations, and they would be able to move the packages inside for you. To make it more worth the money you could also ask the person to take care of any houseplants you have.

Set up the registry to a parents or friends house that could help you out this way you don't need to do anything for holds.

My fiance suggested temporarily using one of his groomsmen's houses for receiving gifts while we're away. Thanks for all the advice!