Wedding Etiquette Forum

Interim Thank You Email For Office Gift?

Our wedding will be this coming Sunday, and we recently received a cash gift from my department at work.  We will of course send an official handwritten thank you note after the ceremony, but since I am at work today and tomorrow, I thought I might just send the group a quick thank you by email.  Or would it be better to wait and send the official note after the ceremony?  I'm sure it came out of the department budget rather than a collection, so most people aren't even aware - perhaps just a verbal thank you to my boss the VP/department head?

Re: Interim Thank You Email For Office Gift?

  • Skip the email.  Buy a thank you card and do a handwritten note and put it up in the bulletin board in the break room/gathering spot for your department.   I'd also send a formal thank you note via mail to the person who organized/authorized the gift.   You could wait to do both of these things after the wedding if you're strapped for time in the coming days.
  • I wouldn't do the email. I like Nola's suggestion and think that would be just fine
  • Skip the email. Nola is spot on. 
  • loca4pookloca4pook member
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    edited July 2013
    What I did when I received a gift was I sent a mass email immediately thanking them for the "shower" and gift. (though this is kinda what everyone of my co-workers have done prior to me when they had a similar situation) Then the next day, I put out a note in a public work area for everyone to thank them..I put it next to a coffee cake that I bought to thank them
  • edited July 2013
    Thanks.  I think I might just give a quick note to my boss for now if I can find the time.  We don't have a breakroom/bulletinboard in our office, but I'll somehow circulate a note for the whole department after the wedding.  Since we will be doing formal thank yous afterwards anyway, would it be somehow inappropriate to informally acknowledge the gift verbally (to my boss) in the meanwhile?   

  • I can't see there is an etiquette issue with thanking people more than once for their kindness. I'd send the email then write the note.

    Why even hesitate?

    "Co-workers: Your kindness means a lot to me. Thank you very much. Be sure to check the break room bulletin board tomorrow."
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