Did anyone here have a " show of presents"? Maybe only in Scotland?

Gosh. We didn't have a show of presents. Didn't have a hen night either as I had important exams right up until the day of the wedding. I look a bit pale in the photos!

Sorry about the typos.

We had a show of presentsat my parents house in Scotland a week or two before the wedding in the sixties. All present givers were knvited but only ladies came. The presdnts were displayed with the gifg cards. They included several "wee mindings" shich were small presents from pdople not knvited to the wedding.

I did not have a hen night. I'd never been to one or even heard of it and the stag do was just an evening in the pub, not a week in Las Vegas!

my mothers neighbour gave us the cash to buy a fridge freezer...the latest "thing " everyone wanted.We spent it on a chess set instead.42 years down the line we still have and treasure that chess set ,we've gone through half a dozen fridge freezers

everybody had show of presents hildajenniJ presents were always handed in to the parents homes just as the invitations were sent out,usually about 6 weeks before the wedding.Presents came from people we'd never met ,family who lived in different countries ,cousins of grannies and assorted friends from the dim and distant past.I remember my MIL tutoring me on who everyone was,as you had to announce where each gift had come from,at the SOP at MIL 's I diiligently went through the list of Step and Half relations of my FIL only to be told that they didn't really DO that,they were all just brothers and sisters....well my FIL and MIL obviously thought differently otherwise why was I coached .I was also taken aside by one of MIL's oldest friends and warned if I didn't look after her precious boy ( she had no children of her own and thought of my OH as hers ) what she would do to me...lol

We had one, and asked all gift givers to view the presents. All my DH's relatives did too. I thought it was something that happened in the farming community! At ours I remember my aunt commenting on the lovely view from the windows of our house rather than the wedding presents.

Way back in the 1960s I went to the wedding of the daughter of a Scottish farmer, who farmed in Kent. On the day, before the wedding, I was invited to a show of presents in the farm dairy. It was for everyone, regardless of gender. It is the only time I have come across this custom.

There were plenty of presents on display as most people had sent their gifts in advance of the event. I have always understood that wedding presents should be sent ahead of the wedding because of the inconvenience of dealing with the packages as the event moves from church/registry office (as it was then) to the reception and getting them home after the event.

I'd forgotten about wedding presents being on show. Yes, we got them all in advance (this was Yorkshire, in the 70s). We were married at 1 at the local church, had our reception at the hotel round the corner, then went to our house down the road where anyone who wanted to could come and see the gifts, on display in the bedroom. Loads did! I can remember there was some kerfuffle over a suitcase a cousin had bought which simply had to be collected from miles away by DH just before the wedding so that it could be out there with the rest.

yes we had 2 as we lived 45 miles apart,one at MIL 's house for their relatives and friends and one at my mums,we also had what is locally called a bottling,dress the bride up and parade her round the streets with L plates and a veil bang pots and pans and sell kisses ,I made a fair amount of cash at mine...lol we finished up with lit candle in salt inside a potty which we had to jump over and the mumber of times you jumped without the candle going out was the number of children you'd have .A lot of fun,singing and a much cheaper way than the week at a Spa or abroad mmost brides have now.I've been married 42 years next week

I was talking England tanith but 59 years ago!!

This was the custom when I married but not the evening bit.
In those days though wedding presents were given and unwrapped in advance of the day and were displayed in a spare bedroom all over the furniture and the neighbours and friends would come in to see them.Now it seems they are all taken to the wedding and piled up on tables still wrapped and the parents have the job of getting them home and storing them until the couple get back from honeymoon.

Never heard of it here in England. Would this be after the wedding ? As most gifts are given on the day.