Shower with Zola registry?

You could split your registry and do a small one at BBB. I started with Zola and realize BBB had lots of the same things and put about half there so I could have a place for folks who wanted to go buy something in person vs online.

I thought about that, but the shower is in two weeks. I think we discovered this issue too late to make a new registry. Invitations went out, gifts have been purchased. I'm really looking for what we can do now with Zola since this situation is already set.

I think you could still do a BB&B registry. I know lots of people that want until the last second to go pick up gifts, especially since BB&B wraps gifts for you. I've definitely stopped on the way to a shower before

If you considered a new registry, maybe send out a follow up/reminder e-vite a week out with registry information on it? If it's out of the question though I'd say your idea is probably your best bet and maybe make gift opening less of the focus and instead just mingle/play games/eat/etc and make that a smaller part of the day.

They should be able to ship it to themselves if it's actually from Zola and not a link to another page.

Hi Allie!

I'm Melissa, Zola's Community Manager - here to (hopefully!) save the day.

Your guests have the option to ship gift to themselves at checkout, or they can send directly to you (where the shipping is delayed and you ship it directly). It sounds like they chose the latter to have it go directly to you, but also made it a surprise gift, so you don't even have the option to ship it.

Here's where I come in - I can definitely release those surprise gifts for you so we can start processing the shipments. For any that may not make it in time, we can also create vouchers for you, so you'll at least have the photo of the gift at your shower (I did that for my shower).

Shoot me an email to *******@****.*** and we can take it from there. I want to make this as stress free as possible for you! Talk soon.

Cheers,

Melissa

Woohoo! Thank you everyone and extra thanks to Melissa!