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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Op here, 
I prefer opening gifts beforehand on Christmas morning. We tell them to come over in the afternoon at Christmas hoping they opened their gifts already. It just awkward watching an almost 30 year old woman open 16 gifts from her parents.

I was asking how do you word it to have people open their gifts at their home and then come over later. I guess from now on we’d just have Christmas dinner.

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Is your husband not also getting gifts from his parents?  Are they not giving you a gift?  Or you to them?

I am still having trouble picturing what happens.  Maybe tell it like a story, from beginning to end. [/quote]

Not OP, but it sounds like she and her fiance have the extended family come for Christmas. The family brings the gifts for the  future SIL and the fiance. Fiance gets gifts, but not as many. Future SIL gets many gifts, which OP finds objectionable.

OP, I think it is too early to worry about this, but if you want to host Christmas, the thing to do is for your husband to call his parents and ask them to open their gifts at home prior to coming over (preferably without mentioning you, since they will just dislike you for caring about something that doesn't have anything to do with you).[/quote]

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