Wedding Gift: How soon is too soon

I don't think you're behind the curve, I just think she's ahead. I probably wouldn't give her the gift until it's closer but people like to plan ahead so they can buy the gift or perhaps use her registry for xmas ideas or engagement gift ideas. I don't think it's a bad thing she did IMO. I personally like getting save the dates earlier then etiquette says because I'm a planner

I did my wedding website and registry really early in my engagement as well. FH is a school administrator and I'm in my final year of law school. If anything like that was going to get done, it had to be done before school started!

That being said, no one is buying me wedding presents yet and I'm not expecting them. I haven't sent out save the dates yet, but my registry is on my website for when I do. I would wait at least until after Christmas to send the gift.

No, I don't think it's a bad thing at all, but I kind of froze up when Amazon selected her address for shipping and thought wow this is really awkward. I'll see them for Christmas so I shouldn't be shipping the wedding gift yet...

I just had the gift shipped to my house and I'll take it with me to the wedding. They live 5 hours from me.

I'm a huge planner and FH thinks I have put way too much planning into our wedding since we got engaged in July. He said he will get into it in January. I'm planning to send my STDs in January and I'll have the website and registry on the invites.

Having a registry doesn't mean you need to buy the gift today. The site is probably recommending shipping to them for people who can not attend the shower or wedding and still want to send a gift. I don't really understand the problem. I'm getting married June 2017. I have my website done, STD sent, and we started our registry this week. According to the checklists we were "overdue" on setting up the registry. However, keep in mind that you don't have to send STD or set up a website or even a registry if you don't want to. We decided to get our registries done this week so we don't have to fight holiday shopping crowds and if anyone wants to get us a Christmas gift they can order off that. We will periodically check in it and add/remove things as we get closer. No harm in setting it up now.

I like to keep on top of things, when I get behind on the checklist it stresses me out, I'd rather be ahead of it.

I'm just too old for this at 44. My last wedding was 1997 and there was no internet. I recall people putting registry cards in the invites. I did that. I have gone in stores like BBB and bought from a registry list for weddings. I did a target purchase for a wedding online but I did this based on the invite info. I figured it out. I'm having the gift shipped to me. Just glad I caught it before I hit send to her. I don't even know how they identify who the gift was from. There is no card option on Amazon.

Thanks for the input

To correct the record, I am planning to list my website on the invite. The website will contain the registry.

When I got married in 1997, you had no other way to communicate where the couple was registered except on the little card that was slipped in the envelope with the invite. Pre-internet, that wasn't rude.

Because I had the gift shipped to me, there was no note field. I didn't make it to check out with her address in the field to see if that was an option. The only gift opinions I got on mobile were "gift wrap".