Wedding card box?!!!

beckysbobbles1

My MoH was kind enough to empty our box every hour or so and put the cards in the safe at the venue.

It might be a suggestion to ask someone to do this as well.

aileth

I bought a plain cardboard post-box from a craft shop and decorated it to go along with the theme. It turned out beautifully and I saved a fortune. Most cards actually ended up being handed to my dad and he either put them in the box or took them to our room.

Edit: If it's at a hotel, try and get one of the staff to stand near it at all times. Ours was placed next to a staff member anyway without having to ask them, but most of our cards were from groups of family rather than individually so they had quite a lot of money in them and they didn't want them going in the box anyway.

trinity_enigma

Just felt the need to mention this as everybody seems to be taking the mick out of locking the card box at a wedding- anybody who is having their wedding in a remotely public place should do this. There are a lot of unscrupulous and opportunist people in this world!!

If the wedding is in a hotel without exclusive use there will be plenty of other people staying there who will be walking past the room who could easily nip in and help themselves to a few cards on a table. Usually at a wedding there will only be the bride and groom (and sometimes not even them) who know everybody in the room. Another guest wouldn't know if someone uninvited wandered in. Not to mention staff who the bride and groom don't usually know from Adam- how trust worthy are they?

A locked cardboard box might not stop a criminal mastermind, but it is likely to be enough to put off an opportunistic thief.

MrSmartprice

trinity_enigma wrote: »

Just felt the need to mention this as everybody seems to be taking the mick out of locking the card box at a wedding- anybody who is having their wedding in a remotely public place should do this. There are a lot of unscrupulous and opportunist people in this world!!

If the wedding is in a hotel without exclusive use there will be plenty of other people staying there who will be walking past the room who could easily nip in and help themselves to a few cards on a table. Usually at a wedding there will only be the bride and groom (and sometimes not even them) who know everybody in the room. Another guest wouldn't know if someone uninvited wandered in. Not to mention staff who the bride and groom don't usually know from Adam- how trust worthy are they?

A locked cardboard box might not stop a criminal mastermind, but it is likely to be enough to put off an opportunistic thief.

Unfortunately, it's not opportunists she is worried about. It seems her mother has taken up with some sort of lowlife who can't keep his hands to himself.

The real solution would be to find a way of making sure this person didn't get to the wedding. That's where the real creative thinking comes in!;)

foolofbeans

SIL hired a card box for her wedding - which was great until she realised they had picked it up for return the morning after and she hadn't yet emptied it!!
Luckily a few phone calls had it returned but she will never know if there were any cards/ money missing as she hadn't kept track of them.
I suppose she should be lucky somebody didn't lift it from the hotel but she was keeping quite an eye on it as she couldn't wait to add up what she was getting

FatVonD

karren wrote: »

I went to a wedding not so ;ong ago where the mother in law opened all the cards on top table in full view of everyone and you could clearly see her look of delight or disproval at the amount given, i was sitting thinking ohhhhhhhhh lol

I can top that, I went to a Turkish circumcision party in Germany where you lined up to give your gift/donation and the somebody announced over a microphone how much you'd given! :eek:

OP, I love the cream post box that it's posted up there *points upwards*

onlyroz

I'd suggest making sure that the box is HUGE and contains a few breeze-blocks in the bottom.

j.e.j.

FatVonD wrote: »

I can top that, I went to a Turkish circumcision party in Germany where you lined up to give your gift/donation and the somebody announced over a microphone how much you'd given! :eek:

A circumcision party?? seriously? :eek:

chelseablue

FatVonD wrote: »

I can top that, I went to a Turkish circumcision party in Germany where you lined up to give your gift/donation and the somebody announced over a microphone how much you'd given! :eek:

OP, I love the cream post box that it's posted up there *points upwards*

Circumcision party?!

I need to get out more!

Stephb1986_2

I've just ordered one of the wooden ones from the previous page. I read online somewhere that a bride had her reception in a hotel in the lobby it said such & such's wedding what ever room. Some opportunist thief came along seen that went into the wedding and ran off with all the cards that was left on a table near the door.

The couple lost most if not all of their cards

You wonder what the world is coming to sometimes!

Steph xx