Your guests who have attended your wedding should be able to bring the gifts you would appreciate after the main event. You may have guests who live far away from another country who cannot travel so they would just send their gifts for your wedding. There are malls with gift registry so you can make sure of getting the items you want for your wedding. The truth is, you would get more gifts that do not really fall in taste and this happens when you have not pointed out what you want to get on your wedding. You can still solve this problem. Follow these instructions on how to get the gifts you want for your wedding even after you received them.
Prepare a list of what you'd like to get. Your family and friends should know what to give you in the first place, for it is you who would really use these items in the end. Ask your groom if he wants to add some items for the wedding gift ideas. What do you really want to do after the wedding, be it vacation or settling down, have a list of the items you would need . Make a long list if you may of the wedding gifts you want to get from your guests so that you can save time for other wedding preparation activities. Since some guests would come from different places your list of items that were not registered will come in handy so you can still tell them the wedding gift they can buy from their place. Keep your list with you all the time as before the wedding you will receive a lot of calls from friends asking what you want to get and you wouldn't like giving them the same items.
Never worry about your guests' feelings for they will surely understand. These are already your gifts and your guests can't dictate what you will have to do with them anyway. Guests would never look for the gifts they have given you anyway out of courtesy as well. Just tell them exactly what happened and why you decided to have the gift replaced by another item.
List all the gifts you think you do not need and have them replaced. It would be courteous on your part to tell them directly if you really have exchanged their wedding gift for another item. It is much better to tell them what you did to the gift rather than give many alibis in case a guest would ask. The list is your armour so you don't have to tell lies.
Never choose another gift that is not going to be useful for you. If you returned an oven toaster for example, don't just choose a pair of slippers in return. Though you will need some things that you will use for a short vacation, do not make the mistake of buying items you will just throw away after one use.