Should i have a postbox??

I would just because it makes things neater and cards are less likely to get lost.

There are plain ones on Ebay for cheap that you can decorate yourself. Thats what I plan to do!

xxx

I have been thinking about this too. I figured that I have to have something as I know if I were a guest I would feel uncomfortable leaving even just a card lying about, let a card with money or vouchers in it. It doesn't have to be anything big or ostentatious, just a simple box would do ?

We did, I ended up taking the cards off people and putting them in there myself lol. We ended up with so many more cards than i was expecting, I'm glad we had one. You can pick them up really cheap, mine was a fiver from a local craft place xx

I've been at a wedding where the best man, presumably checking hands for cards as people arrived, discretely directed me to a small box in a corner. Far better than leaving in on a table - I would never do that. Rather give it to someone, bride's dad, best man, whatever.

If you aren't keen on a postbox, and you have useful ushers/bridesmaids, there is no reason why you can't give them the task of gathering cards off people as they arrive and putting them somewhere safe at an appropriate time during the day.

I had one my friend knocked me a wooden one up, nothing fancy and it was placed on a table in the corner with the guest book and collage that my SIL had done for us. i preferred the idea of having the locked away just incase some randomers walked into the wedding reception or any of the staff had light fingers.....

I think i'll have a look on eBay and see if i can find a plain one, one that's not too in your face.

Don't want to put it on one of the BM's to have to collect them so probably the best solution.

Thanks guys.

I am having a post box, mainly becasue I think even if you are a gift list only couple people would still want to give you a card and it stops them from getting lost.

A word of warning tho, allocate someone to look after your box ie put it away after the drinks recpeiton and get it out again for the evening reception, that way there is no chance of it getting stolen.

Im putting my post box at the entrance to the civil ceremony room in the hotel, as Ive often been to weddings where you are stuck holding a card too big for your handbag all the way through the ceremony.

I would Grace and I dont think anyone will think anything of it. I dont even see them for gifts, more for cards, and everyone will likely want to bring you one of those.

Our postbox is always in use, it makes a statement and I do think that guests like to have somewhere to leave their gifts/ cards. I think a lot of guests now are happy giving money/ vouchers and theywould prefer that they were safe and in one place!

xox

I won one in the hitched raffle, but TBH was going to order one anyway.

I don't think it's presumptious to expect guests to bring a card to a wedding, most of my guests know me well enough to know I love cards.

I think it's a sensible idea to have some sort of receptacle or someone in charge of gathering them. Most people will (or ought to) bring a card, it's the polite thing to do.

We're going to have a battered old suitcase a bit like this (bottom left):

I am such a dumbass - I got a post box but for a different use!

I got small cards & envelopes and planning on having one per couple / guest at the table so they can write a personal note to us instead of having everyone sign a book (which everyone looks through to see what everyone else has written!) and after the meal they can drop their card in the postbox? Was also planning on having extra cards & envelopes so those at our evening do can also write us a note. Going to leave the spare cards beside the postbox on a table.

I suppose anybody who brings a card with them can just drop it in postbox as well becasue we'll be going through them all & opening them anyway?

Thanks gooddness for hitched, swear there are less than 6 months to go & still so much i dont know!

Sassi - I was going to do that too, but we aren't having a traditional post box - having a special thing provided by the TOG.

Hiya, I dont think that you should worry too much. Most guests will have a card for you and I think having a postbox means you know were they all are at the end of the day and no one has to collect them up ? Ebay deffo for a plain one.

Andrea

Hi Grace,

definately have one.. My first wedding they didn't have this type of thing and I had 2 envelopes/cards go missing which contained vouchers - as they were just handed in..! so at least they are in the same place.

I got my blank one from confetti shop for £5.00 before they went bust... and just decorated it fairly simply this week

I bought one, £3.99 on eBay. Just plain white and i'll pop something on the front.

Ta ladies. :-)

Our postbox was fab in terms of keeping everything in one place and it felt safer than a table with cards, presents etc on display. Most people gave cards to my hubby and it also meant he knew what to do with them ?. It was easy at the end of the night to pick the box up instead of trying to carry loads back to our room. We didn't tell guests about it unless they asked someone what to do with cards. x