When to open/send thank yous for pre-wedding gifts?

JMBsbride

If I receive gifts before the wedding (we didn't have a shower, they're just showing up at the house), when do I open them/send thank you cards?

dumdumfroggie

Open them now but don't use them until after the wedding.

Send thank you notes now.

specialk84

Ditto PPs. If you receive a check before the wedding, send a TY immediately and cash the check. It sucks to have an uncashed check floating around out there.

JMBsbride

Thank you, ladies!

melntaitt

I'm so tempted to use my gifts now but I won't so damn exciting though!

Anyway, PP's are right; get those thank you's out now so you won't have to deal with a bum load later.

kateguess22

Personally I would open it now. Call them or mention to them how appreciative you are if you speak to them before the wedding. Get organized by writing and addressing the thank-you note immediately if you can- or at least start a notebook with what you got and from whom. But I would send the thank-you notes in the two weeks following the honeymoon so you can express how glad you were that they were at the wedding and all they did and not just thank them for the gift. I don't think there's anything wrong with sending the thank-you card before the wedding but that is what I would do.
I gave a pre-wedding gift to my girlfriend and she opened it immediately and it was a gift certificate to future shop. She used it to purchase a camcorder that she took on her honeymoon and they also ended up using it during the wedding. She sent me a thank-you card months and months and months after the wedding! lol But I didn't mind at all that there was a delay. She had a lot of thank you cards to write. I am going to try to be very prompt with mine.