Q&A: Return wedding gifts
Here’s another unusual situation on the ‘right’ thing to do. The question was:
Q: If a marriage ends within six months of the wedding, should the wedding gifts be returned?
My answer? Why should they? I am sure they’ve got enough heartaches and troubles to deal with to have to worry about returning the gifts! I don’t think any couple would go through the trouble of preparing and going through the wedding to try and dupe the guests in giving them presents so I’d let them be and as a guest won’t even be bothered whether my gift was returned or not.
What about you? What do you think?
I picked up various answers from those who responded to the thread. They were as follows:
I assume the thank you notes have been written. If so keep them and move on. If not - return them.
I want to say yes, but realistically it would be so difficult to try and package things back up after you’ve thrown away all the boxes and send them back to your guests. I mean would you want used wine glasses back anyway?
That is tricky …
Unless I had given the couple cash or a gift certificate I think it would be more hassle to have to deal with the returned item. By that time it would probably be too late to return the item anyway.
And, at that point, I would probably be feeling so bad for the couple for separating so soon after their marriage that it would feel weird taking back a wedding gift.
They should write notes apologizing for their stupidity
what would the ones that gave the gift do with it? Assuming it was something on a registry that the couple wanted..that would be tough.
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