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Haven

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We''re marrying on Friday, July 4th and leaving for our ten-night honeymoon on Monday, July 7th. I absolutely do not want to wait until after the honeymoon to write the notes because that is such a long time, so what do we do? Do we write them all in those three days after the wedding? Do we bring them on the honeymoon and write them in St. John?

I take a while to write each note because I want it to be heartfelt and proper, and it''s certainly not something I want to just jot down and send off.

When did you write yours? Did you bring them on the honeymoon? Did you write them on the plane?!
 
We did them as the presents came in before the wedding, and within a week or two after. I think people completely understand about the honeymoon and would not be offended if they received them a few weeks later.

That being said, we did do some on the plane home from our DW.
 
Thanks, Neatfreak. Yes, we are definitely sending out notes as soon as we receive gifts, but we''re so close now that I think we''re going to end up getting around 75 gifts the day of, which is crazy. I just don''t want to seem rude if we don''t get all the notes out before we leave for our honeymoon, but is it realistic to think we''ll write thank you notes on our honeymoon?
 
NO ONE would expect (or want for that matter) you to write thank you's on your Honeymoon!

I made a deal w/ hubby that we would get them done by the 3 week mark. (I do mine, he does his) I really wanted to get started on the plane (HM), but we had no time to open our gifts/cards before we left..... We had a brunch, it went to dinner and we were absolutely pooped and never opened our gifts before we left. So we couldn't have done them on the plane (I was thinking of it like you are now)
Which brings me to the plane ride.... really needed that sleep also! You would not believe how utterly exhausted you will be. Just enjoy and totally relax on your HM. Leave them for when you get home.

If you do 20 or so a night it's not bad and you don't feel rushed... that way they can be personal and heartfelt because you're not trying to do 200 at once.
DH really didn't want to do them... so I traded "his side" of the thank you's for a top to bottom, scrubbed clean, even the baseboards clean house
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Date: 6/26/2008 12:41:31 AM
Author: Haven
Thanks, Neatfreak. Yes, we are definitely sending out notes as soon as we receive gifts, but we''re so close now that I think we''re going to end up getting around 75 gifts the day of, which is crazy. I just don''t want to seem rude if we don''t get all the notes out before we leave for our honeymoon, but is it realistic to think we''ll write thank you notes on our honeymoon?

I don''t think anyone *expects* you to do them on your honeymoon at ALL. So personally, I wouldn''t bring them. Just enjoy yourselves. I really really doubt anyone will think you are rude for not doing the TY''s on your HM!
 
take this with a grain of salt as i''m a bit of a Type A psychopath with things.

I sent out the ones for gifts that came before the wedding the day I got the gift. Made it a routine.

For the wedding itself, we had it on a Saturday and I opened everything on Sunday and wrote the thank you''s that night and the Monday morning.

What made it easier?

I put the return address label, adress label and postage on each envelope and put them in alphabetical order for each person that RSVP''d yes. Also, I put a thank you card in each that started with:

Name of person,
Thank you so much for joining us on our special day. We are so grateful that you could be there with us to celebrate. Also, thank you so much for

Then I left it blank. All I had to write was. . . . "the generous gift (for money)" or "the blender." Etc. Then, a quick note about it.

Example:

Mr. Smith,
Thank you so much for joining us on our special day. We are so grateful that you could be there with us to celebrate. Also, thank you so much for the wine glasses. We love to entertain and they will certainly get a lot of use at our monthly wine tasting parties! We sincerely appreciate them and hope that you had a great time celebrating with us.

With love (if it''s family),
Cellososweet and DH

That way I didn''t have to write much. LIcking the envelopes was the biggest PITA. Haha. :-) Good luck!
 
Wow, cello, you are ten thousand times more organized and prepared than I ever dream of being!
Are you a teacher? You would fit right in--I''m like a renegade in the teacher crowd with all my disorganization!

Thank you for the responses. I think we''re going to try to write them all before we leave for the honeymoon, as we do have three days at home. Perhaps we''ll write to all the old-timers and otherwise more traditional guests first, and save my laid-back friends for last in case we don''t get through them.
 
I took our thank you notes with us on our honeymoon, figuring I could write them on the plane. I ended up writing about half of them sitting by the pool bar drinking a mojito in Costa Rica and wrote the other half last night when we got home from our honeymoon! I mailed them out today - it was after our honeymoon, but not yet a month from when we held our reception.
 
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