Thank you card writing

[Ninedays9]

How did you/are you planning to work the writing of the thank you cards? We still need to do ours, and I'm not sure if we should split them up by who's family/friends gave which gifts or what. I'm curious to see how other people are approaching it.

[gwenshack]

That would have bee nice. I love the idea of both of you taking on part of the work...:grinhappy:

However, had I left anything to DH it wouldn't have happened, so I did all of them.

[WBandMe]

I did all of my side and a handful of people on his side. If it was people from his side that went to the shower I had him do them. I use a pretty standard format in my TY's for people I don't know well, and I was worried I'd send the same person basically the exact same card. So, I did maybe 70% and he did the rest, and we each signed our own name on every card.

[f77g4]

I will probably be doing all of them except his parents'. I have a hard time writing mom & dad on their card and I know they wouldn't appreciate having their first names written in it.

I like the idea of each of us signing our own name though - that's cute and might make him do that.

[Ninedays9]

Hmmm, so it probably wouldn't seem strange if I were to just do them. I have a feeling if I don't they won't get done... and I was wondering if it'd be weird if the ones for his family came in my writing... but then again my writing is nicer. :) I actually wouldn't mind doing them; they weren't bad for the shower. I'll have to see what Eddie wants to do....

[fireprincess2009]

I just finished ours and I did every one of them. You're married now - it's not weird at all coming from you. Although it would have been nice to get some help, DH is busy with other things and I had the time.

[sandy03]

I wrote all of ours except for his parents and his office.I didn't mind doing his family because they aren't really big on using titles like "aunt" or "uncle" and just refer to each other by first names, so it wasn't weird for me at all. Plus, I had the time to do them because he had to go back to work before I did.

[savepaws]

I did my thank you's the week we got back from our honeymoon. LOL I was a bit obsessive about getting them done. I did them all because I have better handwriting and DH seems to think that when he writes notes in cards that they need to be funny messages. Which is ok for some people but not everyone. Plus I wanted to get them out right away and I knew he wouldn't get them done as fast as I could.

I agree it doesn't matter if they come in your handwriting, its not weird at all now that you are married. :)

[gwenshack]

DH seems to think that when he writes notes in cards that they need to be funny messages. Which is ok for some people but not everyone.

That's cute. :)

[Brian's Bride]

I must be in the minority, because I wrote out my family/friends and he wrote his family/friends. It worked for us!

[The Proper Wedding]

the way i see it, the guests came to see both of you and gave both of you gifts, not just one of you. so it doesn't matter who thanks them, as long as they are thanked. they'll know it was from both of you, even if he doesn't have anything to do with it, or the other way around even! just do it however they're more likely to get done! ;)

[ChristineLS]

We split them up by family, and half/half on friends.

Mine are in the mail. His have yet to be done. It's actually been the source of a fight for us - I do not have the time to do my own work and get his done too...

[VickiLynn84]

I'm sure I'll be doing them. I expect less than 20 people to come from his guest list. since everyone is all over the U.S. (hence the high # of no's so far on the RSVP's, but I'm sending out mine this week) most of my family probably will come and that will be a lot of people. so, I'll probably end up doing his too since I'll be doing the majority.

[MrsDM]

Well, since I've just started writing them....I'm doing them all. Dan doesn't really get what he is supposed to write, so he'd probably just end up writing "thank you" and I'd have to oversee him writing them all anyways because he would have a million questions.

Its just easier this way! LOL

[I'm a Mrs!]

I tried to write mine as the gifts came in so that I wouldn't have to do them all right after the honeymoon. The website we used to register also had a "thank you note reminder" feature that kept track of who gave us what from our registry, so that definitely helped! If you don't have access to something like this I would recommend keeping a detailed list in an excel spreadsheet so that you don't get confused and thank someone for the wrong gift!

[melissa1031]

I know I'll end up doing all of ours.But I don't mind.He'll say his part will be taking them to the post office and mailing them.