Thank you card timing

MrsLillyG · May 2013

How long after the shower should they be sent?

misssunshine17 · May 2013

Immediately. I, personally, roll my eyes when it takes longer than a month to get a thank you card. If I've taken time to pick a gift and attend the shower, it shouldn't take long to write and send a thank you card.

Jen4948 · May 2013

ASAP. Delays make you seem unappreciative of the time and trouble everyone at the shower took to get you a gift. Same with the wedding.

mlg78 · May 2013

Why on Earth would you wait? This seems like a common sense answer...

nextrightthing · May 2013

Immediately.

meggiemo · May 2013

NYUgirl100 said:

Immediately. And btw, do NOT allow anyone to ask guests to address their own thank you cards envelopes.

People do this!? Wow...

imimbles · May 2013

Right away/as soon as possible. I haven't had my shower yet but they'll all be sent out within a week. For the wedding, we leave almost immediately for the honeymoon, but those should all be sent out within two weeks of us returning.

Kate61487 · May 2013

Immediately, as PP said. unless it was a GIANT shower I would, personally, judge anything later than two weeks after. It seriously takes like two minutes to write a thank you note; for a typical 30 person shower that's an hour of writing. Add on addressing the envelopes and adding stamps it should still be able to be done in one evening.

krizzo17 · May 2013

I took all my thank you notes to work and did them during my lunch break. It took me 2 days to do all of my shower thank yous (about 20), and 3 to do all of my wedding thank yous (about 50)

MrsLillyG · May 2013

ok thanks! I'm almost done mine (I had 60) and my shower was 1.5 weeks ago.

hoffse · May 2013

Get them out. They absolutely need to be sent within 2 weeks. 60 should have taken you maybe 3 days.

And whatever you do, don't be that girl who takes months to properly thank people for wedding gifts. Yes, it's daunting, but you should be able to get them done within a couple weeks of the wedding (or your return from the honeymoon if you are immediately going on a honeymoon).

[Deleted User] · May 2013

1 1/2 week after shower & you're almost done, I think you're fine. I got mine done within two days after the shower, but that was because I was dog sitting and it helped to occupy my evenings since I wasn't at my own home.

For wedding, I think if you start on them once you're back from your honeymoon and do say at least 10 a day (or more depending on how many you have to do) you'll have them done quickly & in an acceptable amount of time.

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