Wedding crashes? Lol

This probably isn’t proper etiquette, but if most of your guests are on social media, maybe you could post a photo of the front of the card and say you’d love to know who it’s from so that you can properly thank them.

You don't need to thank people for signing the guest book. Thank you cards are usually for gifts.

For the card with money, can you do a process of elimination? When we were going through wedding gjfts/cards, we created a list so that way we knew who gave what when we sat down to write thank you cards. If you compare that list with your guest list, maybe you can figure out who it was. Otherwise, Caytlyn's idea of a social media post may be a good option.

I agree with Caytlyn, we definitely live in a social world and you do really want to thank them lol

Weird!
Have you asked parents about the anon gift? They might have an idea of who bought some of it.

I would enlist the help of your parents. Also, consider process of elimination. Make a list of who hasn't gotten you a gift out of your attendees and focus there.

View Quoted Comment That’s an idea! Just watch though lol it’s probably one of the few people not on social media 😂

View Quoted Comment We already went through our whole guest list trying to see who it was from 😅

View Quoted Comment They have no idea. My mom works at BBB and even then couldn’t help 🤷🏻‍♀️

View Quoted Comment We cross referenced the names with everyone on our list and can’t figure it out.

View Quoted Comment Hmm maybe the social media post might work. I did this once when I received a gift with no name. It wasn't related to my wedding but it did work.

View Quoted Comment Oh that's so frustrating! Hopefully you can figure it out!
The social media post could help! Even if the gifter isnt on, maybe somebody else might know from chatter!

I also agree with asking parents if they recognize the handwriting. We had one gift bag with 2 separate signed cards in it, so one clearly went with the gift back and one was just accidentally tucked into it and we weren’t sure which person gave the actual gift. Parental advice was unanimous that “ohh that person would never give that gift!” and we (think) we narrowed it down correctly haha. I wouldn’t have guessed on my own.

Definitely don’t need to send cards to everyone just for signing the guest book, so I wouldn’t sweat that one!

As far as the actual gifts, first narrow down who is left on the list after you’ve identified who gave all the other gifts. It should help isolate the Drywalls a bit . (This one is not one I’d post on social media for help— it just feels like shaming for sloppy handwriting!). If you can’t isolate the origin of the physical gift though I suppose you could do a “help! Where did this come from ?” ....but I’d try more investigating before you get there. Definitely call the store you had your registry with— they tend to have very detailed records with registry purchases so even if they can’t tell you a name, they should be able to provide : date purchased and physical location purchased. That certainly may not directly answer the question, but it may help. If I could isolate it , I’d do a quick folllow up with my best guess to check if it was them .

This happened to me and we never figured it out ahah. We had like five envelopes with money but no name in it and we just couldn't figure it out since not everyone gave something.

Check your reception photos for any unfamiliar faces, maybe that will help you figure it out

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Thank you! That's my one caveat for not wanting to post a social media post with the card that we cannot decipher since it had $100 in it...