Bridal shower covid

If you are still planning on having some kind of wedding whether now or in the near future (a year from now) I think it’s fine to keep the gifts. Just be sure to send a thank you note.

I'll keep it and reschedule however you can zoom a virtual shower...if you really wanna be around friends or family wait till next year
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We had the same date until we postponed to next year. Also had two bridal showers already planned for end of July. Only a few people bought off the registry. We sent out letters to all our guests explaining that we would be postponing and canceling all other wedding events such as bachelorette/bachelor parties and the wedding showers. We also included that if people has already bought gifts they could be returned if wanted. Otherwise we just wrote thank you notes to the few people that had stuff sent to our house.

These are all uncharted waters! I think you can keep the gifts and either go through with your shower (depending on your local area) or do a virtual shower!

Logistically trying to return registry gifts to the sender would be a nightmare!

Following! We're seriously debating postponing our October 24 wedding, but would still plan on getting married with immediate family on the original date and postpone the reception to later next year. We would make the final decision by the end of July, but the bridal shower and bachelorette are in the works for mid-August. Not sure if we should keep on with the festivities since we're technically still getting married, or to postpone since the guests won't be physically "invited" to the virtual wedding.

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We ended up doing an online bridal shower through pampered chef in order to celebrate even though it couldn't be in person. It was still a blast and a lot of people were able to participate.

our wedding was set for September and we postponed to next year but are getting married with our parents in augsut as well.

People sent cards and gifts for the bridal shower wishing us the best!

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Thanks for the info! Once we make the final official official call next week about postponing, we're going to hash out the details of which traditional events to do this year vs. next year. This is good to know - I feel silly being like "hi I'll accept your gifts, but you're not really 'invited' to the wedding" if that makes sense?

View Quoted Comment Totally does!! Unfortunately we just cancelled this week and the party was a month or two back. So at the time we were planning on moving forward

My FSIL just recently made the call to have a micro-wedding on her original September date, with a 1-year anniversary reception in 2021. The shower was to have been 3 weeks before the wedding, so we're now postponing that to next year. We hadn't sent invitations out yet (we'd already postponed the shower once as things had not yet begun to open up in my state when we would've had to start sending them), but the reasoning was that people will treat next year more like a wedding celebration it is if we were able to have some of the lead-up events. To me at least, it doesn't matter if they are already legally married - it's still a celebration of the couple in a beautiful ballroom with amazing food and drinks and dancing! We're still going through with the bachelorette party this year because the bachelor party already happened and we're locked into our Airbnb unless restrictions change in the next 3 weeks.

If I were you, I'd reschedule the shower if you're able to do so and send a note to all of your invitees that the shower is going to be postponed. For those who purchased gifts and sent them to you, send them a thank-you and express how excited you will be to celebrate with them next year! I think most people will be pretty understanding as this situation is pretty unprecedented.