No card/tag/names on gift

[chiffani]

Basically we have a gift that we have no clue who gave it to us. Is there anything we can do while still being polite? Ya know I'm not going to go around asking everyone who gave me an empty card if it was their gift ;) Do we just suck it up and wait for someone to ask us how they liked the picture frame they gave us???

[Stephanie]

Ugh! I had this happen on three of my gifts. I felt horrible, but I didn't have a clue as to how I would figure out who it belonged to. I am sure that there are three people out there somewhere who think that I am such an awful, rude person because they never got a thank you card. Now I always make sure that if I am giving a gift with a card, I tape the card to the gift so that there is no way for it to get lost. I guess that you just have to hope that a family member will mention where it came from or some other clue will pop up! :)

[ejs]

We had this happen and we did everything possible to find out who it came from. Fortunately I had kept an Excel spreadsheet for all of our wedding details. One sheet included guests names and addresses; if we rec'd a gift from them, I'd log what it was, when we rec'd it, and when I sent the thank you note. So it was easy to narrow it down. When we had a few names, we asked our parents who they thought it could be.

Between us and our parents, we managed to talk to everyone socially. During the conversations about the wedding, someone would say, "J&B rec'd a beautiful XXX as a wedding gift, but unfortunately the card came off." Finally, someone said, "I gave that to them!" Problem solved!

[pride&prejudice]

We had the same thing happen, and our experience was similar to other posters. We kept track of who gave what. There were 2 gifts in question and 2 couples were got cards from but they weren't attached to a gift. We casually mentioned it to one in conversation and they told us which one they gave us. :)

[Marie]

We had the same thing happen with a gorgeous pair of Waterford tumblers. We tried contacting the store but they hadn't given our registry info when they bought them. Process of elimination didn't work because we had several people not give gifts. We casually asked around as did our parents. No dice. We finally figured it out when someone asked hubby how we liked them about a year after the wedding. Hubby was like oh my gosh, that's been driving my wife crazy for a year - she feels so bad about no thank you letter and everyone had a good laugh.

[chiffani]

Thanks girls... I had forgotten I started this thread *blush*

I think I have one card in mind that could belong to the gift and I'll drop that person an email (she's a friend) and just tell her that I have a dilemma with a gift because I don't know who to thank for it.

Thanks for the suggestions!