Wisdom on how to approach this

Hi all! I am getting married this New Year’s Eve, and have disclosed just that to my clients (mostly due to name change, and the fact that I will be out for 3 weeks.) I have generally managed their excitement for me and questions well and keep it very short and to the point “I will be out for my wedding/honeymoon” “yes I am excited!” Then redirect back.

My clients are so amazing and I know that both heading into the holidays as well as my wedding we enter the territory of gift giving. I have had one client straight up tell me that she has something for me before I go away. I want to address this with her (and maybe generally among my clients) about how they do not need to gift me anything. I don’t want it to come off as I’m bringing it up because I expect something (my own stuff- working thru in my therapy lol) but I have considered giving a short speal, something along the lines of

“I know the holidays are coming up and that can consist of sometimes giving a receiving small gifts to those who are important to us. I want to let you know while I will always greatly appreciate the sentiment of a client giving a gift, you do not need to give me anything. This has to do with our ethics as therapists.”

I know some clients might craft or make something, which I would be more open to accepting, but they work so hard and have their own lives, I don’t want them to think I need anything but also don’t want to hurt the rapport.

Sorry if this is long and disorganized, but curious to hear people’s thoughts or how they’ve handled similar situations!!!