Shower gifts sent to the house

As long as your name was on the gifts, I don't think you need to bring anything to the shower. You could just bring a card and mention what you sent.

No, you don't need to bring a card. Are you attending the showers from out of town? Typically it's polite to bring physical gifts to the shower.

I would maybe bring a card with a heartfelt message, but it isn't necessary.

View Quoted Comment That's kinda what I was thinking too! But I don't think you have to!

View Quoted Comment Oh, you absolutely don't have to. I personally feel strange going anywhere empty handed, so I would bring a card to bring something lol.

I feel funny not bringing anything too, but it feels like I'm looking for them to announce what I sent them and that's not necessary.

Totally agree, you already sent gifts so you don't have to bring anything else, your gift will probably be there when you attend the showers, as gifts are usually unwrapped during a shower. But if you'd feel uncomfortable turning up with nothing in hand a card would be lovely.

I you already sent them gifts to their house, then no, you don't need to take anything to the shower.

I hosted daughter's shower at a restaurant and several of the gifts (especially from guests coming from out of town) were sent to our home ahead of time (daughter used our address rather than hers because we'd more likely to be home when packages were delivered). I went ahead and wrapped them and brought them to the shower for daughter to open there. I put simple gift tags on them so daughter would know who each gift was from, but I let the sending guest know I was bringing their wrapped gift to the shower. I think most of them brought cards to put with their gift.

You don't have to, but I'd bring a card with your name and saying what you mailed and a heartfelt message, mainly because I was with a friend when she was trying to organize what came from who for thank you cards and it got a little complicated, so you'd save the bride some potential confusion.

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View Quoted Comment I have just been trying to keep up with gifts as they come! For instance, 2 couples jointly gifted us a bar cart, so it was sent to my home. No one wants to lug that giant box! I sent thank you cards when we got it and marked it as such in my excel spreadsheet.

You don't need to bring anything but a card with a message and a note with what your gift was would be really nice. It's nice to open things in front of people, and I know my one friend who didn't bring anything to the shower felt awkward about being the only one I had nothing to open from. But that was her hang up, not mine.

At my shower I had a mix of gifts to open, cards with things inside, gifts shipped to the house, and plain cards. A lot of the girls who sent things to the house gave cards and I just opened them, read the card (to myself) and then said "Oh and we just got the (gift) a couple days ago, we love it, thank you!"

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Yeah she was pretty good with keeping up! But a lot that came to the house were unmarked.

I probably would have had the gift sent to my house & wrapped it myself, and brought a card. The bride may not know it's for the shower, and may not know to 1. wait to open it or 2. bring it to the shower unopened. I'd probably still bring a card and mention the gift being send to her house.