Hi Girls,

I got married on the 23rd May and havent even started my thank you cards yet and its making me feel pretty crappy how long did it take for you to get yours out also any ideas or websites as im going to be making my own thank you cards.

Thank u xx

I got married May 23rd too and I haven't started yet either. It keeps playing on my mind but i cant seem to get motivated!!! Not really advice, sorry. Just wanted to let you know ur not alone! x

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Don't worry about it ladies . . . my brother in law sent his thank you cards out 1 year after the wedding and wrote ours in front of us!

I got married on 29 May and have pretty much finished my cards now. Some very kind people who had not been invited to the wedding gave us money or gifts - I sent out these thank yous before we went to Italy for the wedding. For our guests, I wanted to add a thank you for coming to the wedding as well as thank you for the gift so these were sent out last week.

Good luck x

We sent ours about 3/4 weeks after the wedding, I had to wait for our photographer to send us a photo so we could get photo cards printed

I wouldnt worry, 23rd May isnt that long at all. At least you are actually sending thank you cards. We went to a wedding last October and never got one. Then we went to another one in March and bought a very expensive gift and never got one either! Now that is rude!!!

We got married on 09 May and haven't written ours yet. Even worse, we were organised and bought them before we went away so this wouldn't happen

got married on the 30th of May, we had a few days between the wedding and honeymoon so i did mine then. my husband (so can't get used to saying that - lol) and i split the list he took his family/friends and i took mine. I had about 50 to do and it took about 3 hours - i was watching the TV at the same time so prob could have done it quicker.

it really isn't that bad write a template then adapt for guest and gift.

you'll feel great once its done ;)

[Modified by: dmw14 on June 16, 2009 01:09 PM]

We got married on 16th May and I'm only just starting to get our thank you cards written.

It is a never-ending task and I have to admit it's difficult to get motivated about it....it's not the same as writing our wedding invitations :(

Hopefully will get them done this week! xx

If its any consolation pinkgirl_kimmy we got married on May 1st and I am only just posting the second batch of thank you cards today. I too feel anxious about the amount of time that has lapsed since our wedding but I think people understand that even after the wedding is a busy time. As long as you send them people will appreciate the sentiment, I would if it was me. I have also made a point of personalising what I have written in each card from something that guest told me on the day to inviting someone out for dinner.
Try not to think of it as a chore - get all the cards, addresses, stamps and of course your gift list out ready and tick each one off the list as you go through. Once you get started it isn't too bad.

good luck

R x

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We're gonna get a nice pic of the two of us on honeymoon as guests are contributing to this via Trailfinders giftlist and add the photo to a vistaprint thank you card but think we will have to write them out rather than type them. What does everyone else think - is it too inpersonal to type thank you cards or is writing them better?

I thought it was etiquette to get them out before two weeks when you return from honeymoon?

http://www.eioba.com/a20572/thank_you_card_etiquette

I got married 7 wks ago and only just sent them out. As long as they are out within 12 wks think you can get away with it. Any longer than that looks a bit rude.

I think as long as you send them, then not to worry really. I found that when we got back from our honeymoon we had so much stuff to do, ie sorting out wedding stuff we had left and sorting stuff for going back to work that it took us a while to get our cards sorted. (went on honeymoon the day after our wedding so had lots of tidying up to do too plus food shopping ...the list goes on and on) We managed to get them out after 6 weeks, you're only human. People have since thanked us as they probably thought they weren't getting one lol x

I've got a small pile of em, but I have a list of even MORE to do. I'm using a fairly simple photoshop template for the covers then hand writing each card, so it's gonna take a while. Still, gives that personal touch right?
Then I have to go back through my list of addresses heh.

This is... gonna tkae a while.

I got married at the end of March (Friday 27th March to be exact) and I've sent most of ours out but there are still a handful I've not written yet.

We designed our own thank-you notepaper on the computer using ClipArt and we printed it off in landscape A4 to neatly slice into 2 A5 sheets. Each letter is about 3 paragraphs long, written by me & signed by us both.

We sent letters to the vicar and everyone - including those who didn't get us gifts or anything but still turned up to support us on our big day. Need to finish those last few now!

I really MUST get around to it!

Bamba x

Thanks girls u have been really helpful am going to start looking at some templates now as we are going to design our own and am thinking about using a nice wedding pic - its just finding the time to do it really but once there done i will feel much better - can u girls believe were all married and wifes ahhhh sorry it still so new to me and im smile everytime i think im a wife xx

[Modified by: pinkgirl_kimmy on June 17, 2009 09:41 PM]