house warming vs reception?

Where are you now?? Since his parents are paying for it and are the ones who want it, could you do soemthing at his folks house in Ohio. I know it means travel for you, but at least someone else will pay for it?

House warming parties are totally acceptable, and fun! Just don't expect to get as many gifts as you would a traditional wedding registry. And just because you say no gifts for the reception, doesn't mean you won't receive any gifts… Can you still set up a registry for the reception and then just store the goods at your parent's house until you're settled?

Nothing wrong with that at all because a house warming is totally different from anything that has to do with a wedding. House warming parties are just that...they focus on the house and people get you things for the house and come to celebrate your house.

We are in illinois now. moving directly from the reception in ohio to atlanta georgia. we are having a "reception" at their house, but it will just be food and a bunch of old people walking around like chickens with their heads cut off (as you can probably tell im not thrilled about it. neither fh or i know even half of the people invited). the reason we dont want gifts now is becasue we dont know what kind of space we will have once we get moved.

im really not worried about how man gifts we get. i just want to ave something for both families. i know we will get some but we want to keep it as low as possible because who knows how much space we will have when moving. and is not like we can make several trips. and we are literally leaving he reception on ohio and heading straight to georgia. as far as storing it at parents. if i take it to my parents it will get lost,broken,damaged......his parents MAY but they are wanting him to clean up their house to get his non existent stuff out.

So im guessing because they have so much of his "stuff" in their house they will not want OUR stuff.

You can register for gift cards. If you register at a place like Target, you can take everything back (after sending thank you notes) for store credit. Then, when you get to Georgia, you can go on a huge shopping spree to get anything you could possibly need!

Okay, I gotcha now. You are having a reception in Ohio with at his folks house with a bunch of old people. If you want to have a house warming in GA I say go for it! If you don't want wedding gifts, you could always do something like a stock the bar party, where everyone brings a bottle to "stock your bar" Or you could just make it an open house party, that way people don't feel like they have to bring anything. Any gifts you get that you don't have room for or need, you could always try and return then and get a GC then wait until you are ready to purchase what you need.

I like Meghan B's idea.. so I'm agreeing with her!

Its ok to ONLY register for gift cards? his fam said that was wrong to do that. we wont have time to take anything back hats the thing. wedding is may 27 we both work the 28. 29-9ish will be spent packing.9-10 wil be spent going to ohio 11 is he reception late th 11th or earl the 12 we will be moving.

an the nearest store is 1-2 hour drive from us.

One of you packs, while the other one exchanges the gifts. Heck, at that rate- you won't even have time to open the gifts! You'll have about 10 days, and you can do some packing early on. I've packed, moved and unpacked a 4 bedroom house in 3 days. You have 10!

My only issue with the housewarming party is it will be in GA. You won't know anyone- and will have no one to invite. It's not good ettiquette to invite out of state guests to a housewarming party.

Like i said the only store even CLOSE to us is an hour away except a grocery store and dollar store. and i WILL not leave him to do all the packing. GURRRRRRRR nevermind. forget i even asked