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MrsPope
Master September 2015

Gifts with no names?

MrsPope, on October 7, 2015 at 3:47 PM Posted in Etiquette and Advice 0 8

We received numerous wedding gifts from our friends and family but about half of them do not have names on them. How do we properly thank them? I've posted on Facebook "if you gave us a beautiful gift we would love to thank you" but no one has reached out. What should I do?

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Latest activity by Susan, on October 8, 2015 at 12:20 PM
  • Shannon
    Devoted October 2015
    Shannon ·
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    Did they come from a registry? I know that with Amazon, I can print out a "Thank you list" for anyone that has ordered from there. Other than that I am not sure. Smiley sad

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  • MrsPope
    Master September 2015
    MrsPope ·
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    Not all came from our registry. Some guests gave cards with money in it and just wrote our names on it, but forgot to sign the cardSmiley sad I don't want to seem ungrateful by not thanking everyone properly but I don't know what to do.

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  • Allison
    Expert August 2015
    Allison ·
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    In this situation I would send everyone (except for the people who's gifts you KNOW) "Thank you for your support and love, we loved seeing you on our big day!"

    If someone gave you a cash gift, they may assume "support" is a weird way of saying "monetary gift." If they did not gift you, you've thanked them for their emotional support.

    And if someone calls you out on not mentioning their gift, and calls, you can explain it looked like several cards were unsigned, and hopefully track down which one it was to make sure you did receive it! Especially since you've put out to your circle that was the case most people will likely just think "Oops - guess one of those unsigned cards was mine!" (If they even think about it)

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  • FFW
    Master August 2016
    FFW ·
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    I'd just send a thank you card to everyone who attended. I like to say specifically what someone got in the note but if you don't know just say something generic like thank you for joining in on our special day. At our housewarming we had one gift with no name (pans). We got 14 gifts total but had about 30 ppl there (most were couples). I knew a few ppl who didn't bring us anything bc they either got us something later or they weren't invited. So I have it down to 3 ppl who brought the pans, so I just let it go and sent them a generic card.

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  • Snarky
    Master September 2014
    Snarky ·
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    I had a gift with no note so I sent thank yous to the guests who had no gift to their name who I thought were most likely to have sent it. Thank you so much for coming blah blah, just a generic note.

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  • Hannah
    Super September 2015
    Hannah ·
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    Several? Yikes. I only had one gift without a name and I had a pretty good idea of who it was from so I just asked her. Turns out it was from her and somehow the card attached to the gift got lost.

    I agree with PP. Send out generic thank-yous to everyone who you can't match with a gift and someone will speak up if they feel like you missed something from them.

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  • Ostrich
    Master April 2016
    Ostrich ·
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    Any purchased from the registry can be searched usually, BBB has a "chat" feature you'll need to use. Otherwise i did what @snarky said

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  • Susan
    Master March 2015
    Susan ·
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    I have one gift, a collage picture frame that was not on a registry, that I have yet to figure out who it came from. I had a pan and a card from a close cousin that got seperated and i figured it came from her ( I was right, her mother asked her). I also had a few people who did not even get a us a card (IL's being one of them). I also put out feelers on FB with no luck.

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