Was it wrong to ask for cash at a baby shower?
So I'm feeling a bit disappointed after my baby shower, and wondering if I'm in the wrong?
I don't live in the US, but I'm back for a couple of weeks to attend a few family events. While I'm here, my mom organized a baby shower. Since I'm only flying with carry-on, and its a little bit hard to order from a registry internationally, my mom asked people to bring cash instead of other gifts.
Out of about twenty people who showed up, one aunt actually brought a cash gift, and my grandma gifted a baby album kind of thing... its nice, but its pretty bulky and was the sort of thing I was trying to avoid having to carry home. But hey.
I don't mind so much with a lot of my cousins, because I know a lot of people are pretty stretched thin financially... but literally no one else even brought a card.
Was it some kind of a faux-pas to ask for cash instead of gifts? Does that signal somehow that showing up totally empty handed is fine?