[Question] Complexities of wedding gifts; Thoughts?

I am getting married in July of this year and would love for guests to contribute to an effective charity of my choosing rather than give us personal gifts—both for the direct benefit of the contributions, and the opportunity to discuss Effective Altruism with guests. My family have correctly pointed out that many guests will likely give less to a charity than they would to us personally, or not donate at all and just give us a gift (that we likely don’t want or need). We could solve this problem by simply asking people for money to be given to us personally, and then making a large donation from that money, but right or wrong this feels disingenuous to me, not to mention the lost opportunity to discuss effective altruism with guests (before and after the wedding of course).

Any thoughts or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I’m particularly interested to hear from anyone who has already had a wedding with these considerations and what you ended up doing.

Cheers

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