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NuggetBrain
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If I wanted to hear the pitter-patter of little feet, I'd put shoes on the cat.
Bad thank you note?
So this is the gist of my thank you notes (wording changing slightly depending on gift and person):
"Dear Guest, thank you so much for celebrating our (insert wedding phrase) with us. And thank you so much for your very generous/lovely/beautiful (insert gift)! We used it for/It looks perfect in our (insert use/place). It was so fantastic seeing you and we hope to see you again soon! Much Love, Nugs and Noodle"
Is that too short? Do I need to add more? I'm usually a blabbermouth, so it feels odd writing a short note but I don't want to get too wordy and for some of these folks I really just don't have more to say.
Bonus Question: What's the worst/funniest/latest/most etiquette bashing thank you note you or someone you know got?
"Dear Guest, thank you so much for celebrating our (insert wedding phrase) with us. And thank you so much for your very generous/lovely/beautiful (insert gift)! We used it for/It looks perfect in our (insert use/place). It was so fantastic seeing you and we hope to see you again soon! Much Love, Nugs and Noodle"
Is that too short? Do I need to add more? I'm usually a blabbermouth, so it feels odd writing a short note but I don't want to get too wordy and for some of these folks I really just don't have more to say.
Bonus Question: What's the worst/funniest/latest/most etiquette bashing thank you note you or someone you know got?
If I wanted to hear the pitter-patter of little feet, I'd put shoes on the cat.
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Re: Bad thank you note?
[QUOTE]I think that's generally fine. If you know your relatives are going to pass them around and compare you may want to change it up a little for some of theirs. My Granny always wants to see the notes her kids get from people to compare to hers, so when I write notes to them I always try to make each a little different.
Posted by pirategal03[/QUOTE]
No offense to your Granny (who I am sure is just lovely in person) but that KILLS me. Come on! Out of 200 TY notes they aren't all going to be unique works of art.
Other than that, the wording looks exactly what I typically write.
That was it! Signed by the bride & groom. They suck.
I got a TY note 5 months after a wedding that was printed on the computer. It said something along the lines of:
Thank you for attending our wedding. Your generous gift of _________________ was very thoughtful and we love it so much.
XOXO- Bride and Groom.
Yes, that is a blank there, and she flled in what present was given.
[QUOTE]I think that's fine. The worst TY I've ever received was a printer-generated fill-in-the-blank that said Dear _____________. Thank you for your gift. We appreciate it very much. That was it! Signed by the bride & groom. They suck.
Posted by ohwhynot[/QUOTE]
OWN, we must have gone to the same wedding. Although, the B&G in my case, didn't actually bother to write out the guest's name, only what the gift was.
Married!
[QUOTE]I think that's fine. It sounds like you will end up tweaking them each a little, so its a good length. I got a TY note 5 months after a wedding that was printed on the computer. It said something along the lines of: Thank you for attending our wedding. Your generous gift of _________________ was very thoughtful and we love it so much. XOXO- Bride and Groom. Yes, that is a blank there, and she flled in what present was given.
Posted by mags0607[/QUOTE]
Ok, not to go all Emily Post-al, but don't people understand the niceity of a handwritten thank you note.
Although FI swears that he has NEVER received a TY note from any of his friends, so at least these people are one step above them.
[QUOTE]I think that's fine. The worst TY I've ever received was a printer-generated fill-in-the-blank that said Dear _____________. Thank you for your gift. We appreciate it very much. That was it! Signed by the bride & groom. They suck.
Posted by ohwhynot[/QUOTE]
OH WOW - that's pretty lame. They have kid thank you notes out now that are more personalized then that. They help kids learn how to write thank you notes by making them fill in the name, present and why they like it. But I don't even let Jocelyn stop at that (well of course I write it for her) but then I make her draw a picture in it too. That's just plain lazy.
I just received a thank you card for a wedding we went to in early May (Yay, on time!) that said simply "Thank you for sharing on our special day!" Ummm.. you're welcome. Glad you appreciated the $100 check we threw your way, too.
[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Bad thank you note? : No offense to your Granny (who I am sure is just lovely in person) but that KILLS me. Come on! Out of 200 TY notes they aren't all going to be unique works of art.
Posted by andyandhillary[/QUOTE]
I agree. But it's not that hard to write 2 really unique ones so the 3 I know she'll see will all be different. It's a know your crowd kind of thing.
After the wedding received the exact card I wrote on with the couples signature, very weird seeing my own handwriting thanking me.
[QUOTE]The worst TY note I received was one I wrote myself. Bride's mother complained the cards were not big enough to write a nice thank you on. I took one of the cards and wrote a generic thank you to show that the cards would be fine. After the wedding received the exact card I wrote on with the couples signature, very weird seeing my own handwriting thanking me.
Posted by SheDiva4[/QUOTE]
WTF! Now that's just lazy.
1. we're not married yet
2. why my last name
It was strange and totally threw me off thinking his college roommate invited my parents
[QUOTE]I think your note looks fine. I just received a thank you card for a wedding we went to in early May (Yay, on time!) that said simply "Thank you for sharing on our special day!" Ummm.. you're welcome. Glad you appreciated the $100 check we threw your way, too.
Posted by xoxpipahxox[/QUOTE]
This would bother me...maybe they forgot?
Dear Friend,
Thank you so much for the ramekins. We will put very tiny servings of food in them.
Love,
Brie and Tim
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[QUOTE]I haven't seen any terrible Thank You notes in a while... but last year my great-aunt literally wrote in my birthday card that "I think the end is near and this might be the last card I send you."
Posted by akhensley81[/QUOTE]
haha yikes! That would disturb me.
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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Bad thank you note? : This would bother me...maybe they forgot?
Posted by L-Bride[/QUOTE]
Maybe, however they did not forget to deposit said check the Monday following their Saturday wedding.
[QUOTE]The worst one I got was from a bride who had this hugely expensive wedding at The Drake in Chicago complete with a designer cake and a Vera Wang gown. The note? It was a picture of them on their wedding day and all it said was "Thanks for coming!". Um, yes. What about $100 check I gave you? If you don't like it I don't mind taking it back. Just throwing that out there...
Posted by andyandhillary[/QUOTE]
I would have called them up and said, "So, did you get my gift? I wasn't sure. You never mentioned it."
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[QUOTE]Tim wrote a TY to one of our friends who got us a set of ramekins. It said, Dear Friend, Thank you so much for the ramekins. We will put very tiny servings of food in them. Love, Brie and Tim
Posted by Brie2010[/QUOTE]
Ha! That is so awesome.
[QUOTE]Tim wrote a TY to one of our friends who got us a set of ramekins. It said, Dear Friend, Thank you so much for the ramekins. We will put very tiny servings of food in them. Love, Brie and Tim
Posted by Brie2010[/QUOTE]
That is HILARIOUS.
The last TY note we got was 6 months after the wedding. It was a nice note and all, complete with a stamp with one of their e-pics on it. It was written by FI's cousin, and I'm SURE his wife was all, "you need to make it longer! Fill the page!" which is probably why they took him so long. It was a really nice note, though. Fi looked at me and said, "Um, I was planning on writing like 2-3 sentences?" I told him that was fine!
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I did get a TY note from one of our friend's whose wedding I was in that was hilarious. FI and I went in with one of the other BMs and got them a Margaritaville machine.
The TY note said:
Dear friends,
Misti and Kyle would have loved to thank you for their Margaritaville machine, but they got too tanked while writing these TY notes in order to do so properly. Please forgive their debauchery and come join them for a drink soon.
Love- The JB Margaritaville machine.
You have to know them, because this is just how they are, but I still have that note, because I loved it.
Didn't sucrets' H write a TY note saying, "Thank you for the frying pan. It will come in handy in zombie attacks"?
two years!
after two losses, now happily expecting baby #1 09.16.12
Brie Fit Blog | BFP Chart
[QUOTE]Tim wrote a TY to one of our friends who got us a set of ramekins. It said, Dear Friend, Thank you so much for the ramekins. We will put very tiny servings of food in them. Love, Brie and Tim
Posted by Brie2010[/QUOTE]
Haha, that's hilarious!
H called the post office and SWEARS the mail forwarding issue is fixed, but I am not a happy camper about this at all. Yet another reason I hate our house. . .
Dresses may be easier to take in than let out, but guest lists are not. -- kate51485
Mags, the margarita machine story is funny too!