Here's an idea: Register so that guests can donate to your chosen charities instead of giving gifts you don't want or don't need. From
JustGive's website:
"The new trend for giving charitable gifts has extended past corporate donations and holiday gifts. With more and more people getting married later in life, there is a new trend for soon-to-be-married couples asking for charitable donations in lieu of traditional wedding gifts. JustGive (
www.justgive.org), a nonprofit organization dedicated to increasing overall charitable giving by making it part of our everyday lives, has streamlined this process by offering a unique online Charity Wedding Registry for couples looking to create a wish list of their favorite nonprofit organizations that they would like to help...
... JustGive's Charity Wedding Registry allows couples to choose from any of the 850,000 charities in the U.S., add personal information about themselves and their wedding, send an email to friends and family notifying them of their registry, and access password-protected reports that detail who has donated to what charity on their registry so they can send out timely 'Thank You' cards. The couple is also notified via email whenever a donation is made in their name."