My husband and I got married in December 2023 with 10 guests in Key West, FL and it was a dream! Now my mom is forcing us to do a reception at home for everyone who didn't get to come to the real wedding. I decided that our wedding website is going to serve as digital invites, but I am now at a loss on how to handle the topic of gifts.
We do NOT expect gifts whatsoever and definitely don't want our guests to feel like this just a gift grab because that is absolutely not the case. The problem is I am very aware that some guests will still want to bring gifts/money, so I figured I would set up a small table for cards and gifts. I feel like if I put on the website that we don't want gifts at all, and then have the table guests will feel weird that they didn't bring something. I also didn't plan on making a registry because to me that feels like we are asking even though we aren't. I mainly need help trying to put this into the proper words for the website that isn't cheesy, but if anyone else has been in this situation I will gladly take your ideas/insight on how to handle it politely!
Note: I attached a picture of the details page (rough draft) on our website below to help give an idea of the type of "reception" we are going for. - Also, we sort of had a "honeymoon" in San Francisco 2 weeks after the wedding. We tied my husbands work trip into a mini vacation so I don't feel that a honeymoon fund is necessarily a great alternative.