Guests who were sent Save the Dates but not at Covid ceremony, what do we do about sending a gift?

If you want to send a gift, send one. If you don't then dont. Are they hosting something still next year? If so, you can wait for that event and give a gift then.

If they are still having their wedding party next year, I'd wait until then. If they did in place of next year's wedding and that won't be happening, it'd be very generous of you to send a gift now but not required.

I would just wait till next year.

Send one now if you can. It will feel more meaningful to the couple that you're thinking of this year.

My Aunt asked my mom the same question about my wedding. I am getting married this year with our Catholic Ceremony but we scaled it down significantly with guest due to COVID after we had already sent our save the dates. We sent out new save the dates explaining that we are getting married this year but have a reception next year with all those that we had to cut for the ceremony.


What I told my mom when my Aunt asked was that it was her choice on when she would like to send our gift. I will be keeping my registry open through next year so that if people wanted to buy something closer to our celebration they could. As a bride I don’t care and am appreciative of the gesture either way.
Hope this helps.

A “Save the Date” is not an invitation. I personally would wait until I received an actual invitation to the reception. I would then either bring it with me to the reception or send it to their residence if I could not attend.

Save the date isn’t the formal invitation. So I would wait until that comes, and I’d so, give a gift the date on the event.