I'm not the anon but am 100% here for having a wedding purely for gifts
Veeeeeery nice. You’re a smart girl, Meg. What I like to hear. And I must say—how distinctly un-hufflepuff of you. 😌
Since you’re in, here’s a run down of the plan (or the hypotheticals): We create a very specific list using one those wedding-planner-gift-sites and so then people will have to get the gifts there. This way we don’t receive five blenders and some ornaments. It’s a direct payment via PayPal (or credit card) to the site so the gifts are practically ours, and I’ll hack it so all the money goes to us anyway. I’ll also alter the coding of the site, or however far I have to go, so it appears that all have been payed for and anything dodgy looking would seems like a system error. Anything like that would only surface after the wedding, anyway, I’d make sure of that. So here we get all the gifts and all the money—double the goods. A perfect idea for a plan. We will have the ceremony somewhere we can get for practically no money, some place owned by a friend. I will take care of all that. It will be a small wedding, though it will appear modest and quaint. We have a good ol’ celebration in proper British style and then after we run away with the goods and money, move to the coast—somewhere like Bognor Regis—and go from there. Apropos of the plan, questions are welcome and all is open to amendments, of course.