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meggles    June 6, 2009   UK

We'd like to suggest to our guests, that if they were thinking of getting us a present, that we'd love them to consider giving to a worthy charity instead. 

Now, we both have friends for whom the travel to our wedding is a hardship.  We're trying to help out a few family members, but fundamentaly we do not want the lack of ability to give a gift to preclude them from attending.  Hence, the wording "if you were thinking of giving Meggles & MrMeggles a gift"

Also... we have some family members who would ONLY consider giving an actual object.  Just because.  And so... we have registered at Macys & Amazon.co.uk (hence the Registry Stalking post earlier).

I'm slightly stumped on the wording.... I'm only 45% happy with the wording below- and I worked on it for 20 mins yesterday:

"If you were considering giving Meghann and Andy a present, they'd be honored to accept a gift to you favorite charity on their behalf.  "

meggles    June 6, 2009   UK

We thought about suggesting the 2 charities that we support the most?

MsB    December 2008  

We did the same thing at our recent December wedding and it worked out wonderfully!

Included in our invitation we had a card that said the following:

<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Monotype Corsiva'">The greatest gifts we can receive are your continuing friendship and your presence at our wedding.<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Monotype Corsiva'"> <span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Monotype Corsiva'">Therefore, in the spirit of the holiday season, we ask that if you would like to give us a wedding gift, that it be one which will help those with greater needs than ourselves. To accomplish this, we are graciously accepting monetary gifts to be held in trust by us until after the wedding, at which time we will distribute them to deserving local registered charities.<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Monotype Corsiva'"> <span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Monotype Corsiva'">After the wedding, we will be delighted to share with you information concerning where the gifts went so you can see what a difference we have made together.<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Monotype Corsiva'"> <span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Monotype Corsiva'">We sincerely thank you for honoring this request.

If you have any other questions about this, please let me know.

MsB    December 2008  

Let's try this again! Apparently copying and pasting does not work out well on these boards! :)

 

The greatest gifts we can receive are your continuing friendship and your presence at our wedding.

Therefore, in the spirit of the holiday season, we ask that if you would like to give us a wedding gift, that it be one which will help those with greater needs than ourselves. To accomplish this, we are graciously accepting monetary gifts to be held in trust by us until after the wedding, at which time we will distribute them to deserving local registered charities.

After the wedding, we will be delighted to share with you information concerning where the gifts went so you can see what a difference we have made together.

We sincerely thank you for honoring this request.

BeachyBride2010    Jan, 2010   Jamaica

Nicely put MsB...

We are trying to figure out how to word "no gifts, your pressence is gift enough" more eloquently due to the expense required to attend our destination wedding.  Great ideas here!