Is it better to bring a gift to a wedding or to send it afterward?

Answer 1

If you're thinking of sending a gift, it should be done before the wedding. Otherwise, take it with you. If you're going a long distance, I would definitely suggest sending it, so nothing happens to it while you're traveling. If it is just a card or money, then you can take it to the couple that day.

Answer 2

Either send it before the wedding or bring it to the reception. Also, keep in mind where the bride and groom live. If they don't live in the same town as the wedding, this will mean that they will need to transport all the gifts back to their home.
Whether you decide to send it before (preferred if it is larger than a shoebox), or take it to the reception, be sure that the card is firmly attached to the gift so that they will know who it's from. Too many cards and gifts get separated from each other en route to the couple's home.
Stay away from sending it after the wedding...it will look like you forgot.

Answer 3

Every wedding I have been to, and again this may be a regional thing, but I take the gift to the reception and there is usually a gift table. Unless there is a registry, and then you just choose off of that and I guess they are delivered to the bride and grooms new residence.
I think in a lot of movies they get them sent to the brides house before the wedding and the bridesmaids help the bride open them all. I think that might be an American tradition? And a good one if you ask me, cos otherwise some poor sucker has to transport all the gifts home afterwards.
Sending them after the wedding is allowed. I think you have up to a year to send it, in ettiquette books, or so I have heard. But to me, that looks like an oversight, or like you forgot and felt guilty afterwards.
Hope that helps.

Answer 4

different regions have different customs, it is much more common to bring a gift to the wedding in the south. It really depends on the gift though - a lot of people prefer to send gift card or cheques through the mail so they don't get lost ammong the other wedding stuff, but it would also be really impractical to pay a ton for shipping a larger gift.

Answer 5

Bring it to the wedding. The couple will expect gifts to be brought to the actual wedding and will have a plan in place to accept them and get them home.

If you send it afterwards they will be on their honeymoon and you will risk having issues with nobody there to accept the gift when it is delivered.

Answer 6

It's Ok to bring the gift to the wedding. I know in most of the weddings I have attended the bride and groom assign someone to gather all the gifts and take them so the couple can open them when they get back from the honeymoon. This is how we have always done it. If your unsure about just send it to them.

Answer 7

Either way is fine. However, sending it before the wedding, USUALLY, makes it easier for keeping track of who sent what gift. USUALLY, gifts sent before, are opened, and a list is kept of what and who sent it. IF this is what is happening, it helps the bride and groom with making sure thank you cards are being sent to all, and to make sure the thank you cards are more personal.
If you already have the gift, find out who is keeping track and where to send it to.

Answer 8

I think it might be a regional thing but where I live, you can bring your gift to the wedding, or send it later, either one.

Answer 9

traditionally you always send the gift before the wedding. if not, you can take it to the reception, but if you do you must tape the card to the gift securely, because in the crush and rush if your card falls off your gift the bride will not know it was from you and you want to get credit, haha!

Answer 10

Well, you bring the gift you live it in the car and you bring it in at the reception. That is my best suggestion.

good luck