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Wedding Thank You's
Did you/Are you planning on putting a picture of you and hubby in your thank you, doing some type of a photo thank you, or not using a picture at all?
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Re: Wedding Thank You's
They are super cute.
I haven't gotten a photo IN a thank you in years....
Being married is a real thriller!
We also got our photos back within three weeks, though. If we had to wait two months or longer for them, I probably would've just bought plain thank you cards so I could get them out on time.
One caviat however, this does not get you off the hook for writing a personal thank you. We have a friend that sends photo thank you's for everything and never writes a thank you message. I love her dearly but I always feel like it's incredibly insincere.
[QUOTE]We're planning on doing photo thank you cards. One caviat however, this does not get you off the hook for writing a personal thank you. We have a friend that sends photo thank you's for everything and never writes a thank you message. I love her dearly but I always feel like it's incredibly insincere.
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I always write a nice, personal thank you :) So you ordered the one sided type that people send around Xmas? Is it proper to make a folding photo thank you and werite inside? Or should I use the thank you's I have a possibly send a phot thank you as an extra?
We just got a photo thank you from FI's colleage that was a postcard with the picture thank you on the front and they wrote a personal note on the back and mailed it in an envelope. You can do that if you don't want/can't find a folded card. I think they did it on Vistaprint.
[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Wedding Thank You's :Is it proper to make a folding photo thank you and werite inside?
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</div><div>Absolutely appropriate. Or even if you use one of the Christmas card type ones, if you wrote a real thank you note on the back it would be okay (although informal -- but I think that too is okay).</div><div>
</div><div>We got a photo thank you from a wedding last summer that just said "Thanks for sharing in our special day! Love, [bride] & [groom]" on it. They didn't even put a "Dear" line on it. So clearly they wrote the same generic message to everyone. Not okay. And where's the thanks for our gift to them?</div><div>
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We ordered folded cards, with our picture on the front and blank inside. I've seen others with a pre-printed generic message on/in it ("Thank you for sharing our joy!") and then a handwritten thank you on/in it. I don't have a problem with a pre-printed message as long as a personal handwritten note is included.
I agree with Uppereast that I find the flat, Christmas-style cards a bit more informal than folded note cards, but if it's got a handwritten thank you on it then I would never complain about it. I never find a thank you note tacky unless the body of the note is a pre-printed message (writing my name and/or signing your name doesn't count as a handwritten thank you).
I would be more apt to keep a photo thank you card than I would a wallet-sized photo print, but I still like getting the prints if the couple elects to send non-photo cards. I like having the photos of friends. We're sending prints to some guests, but they're prints of them or their families (like, the group photo of high school friends will all get that group photo).
[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Wedding Thank You's : Absolutely appropriate. Or even if you use one of the Christmas card type ones, if you wrote a real thank you note on the back it would be okay (although informal -- but I think that too is okay). We got a photo thank you from a wedding last summer that just said "Thanks for sharing in our special day! Love, [bride] & [groom]" on it. They didn't even put a "Dear" line on it. So clearly they wrote the same generic message to everyone. Not okay. And where's the thanks for our gift to them?
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I was typing fast because I have kids in the room - I really can spell!I hate getting thank you's like that! My parents once got on that said "thank you for my gift! Love, Allison!" Something a 5 year old would do.
my friend just sent thank yous from her wedding and it had photos of them from the wedding all over it....and then a thank you note printed as well. i thought it was so cute! i didnt even think twice about it not being hand written until i read this post!
anyhoo - we'll do a photo as well. i think you can print them SUPER cheap at costco.
t+sBio
I've actually kept it, it was so sweet. We did not make it to the wedding, and were only able to send a small gift (we were seriously broke at the time), but the thank you note was sincere, sweet, and very much the two of them.
Frankly, it's the one idea I'm thinking of stealing from their planning!
and then i wrote out each one....mh said he'd help, but, it took so long to make the thank yous, i couldn't wait for him to help me....
[QUOTE]Or even if you use one of the Christmas card type ones, if you wrote a real thank you note on the back it would be okay (although informal -- but I think that too is okay). [/QUOTE]
Our photographer showed us two kinds of photo TY cards, one that is folding and allows us to write inside, the other like the Christmas ones. On the Christmas ones, he told us to expect to NOT be able to write on the backs of them as they will have print marks from the lab. We're going with the folding kind just because the other does seem too informal.