Calling Off the Wedding after the Bridal Shower

If you have had your wedding shower and you are now canceling your wedding, you will need to take some important steps with your guests and the gifts that you received.   

The gifts given at a wedding shower are given for the bride and the groom to start their new life.  If that is not going to happen, you need to return the gifts to your guest promptly. 

You should not open any of your wedding shower gifts until after the bride and groom have been married so as to avoid a problem in this situation.  It is often that a gift may need to be returned for other reasons as well.   

If you have opened the wedding gift that was given to you, contact the gift giver and arrange to pay back the gift giver for the gift itself.  If this is not possible, there should be restitution made in some way.