Early Wedding gifts and Thank you cards.

I would wait. Some couples don't even open their gifts until after the wedding, so I don't think anyone will expect it beforehand.

Thats what I was thinking, but I also know it's rude to not send them in a timely manner. I didn't know if this was an exception to that rule. Thank you

No! Send now!! It's rude not to send a thank you within two weeks of receiving a pre wedding gift!

If the sender is going to be at the wedding then you could probably send it later. If they are sending the gift and won't be able to attend the festivities I would send it now.

I opened and sent all my thank yous thus far. I'd rather be early than late or to forget in all the madness.

Definitely send it now. Less to write later, and they know you got it.

I will definitely be sending it now. Thank you for the response.

We got a present this week too! I will probably send out thank you cards as we get the presents so I'm not writing them all at once after the wedding. It may just be easier to do them as you receive gifts. Just make sure to keep track if you do this method so you're not sending double thank you cards or miss any!

I really recommend sending your thank you cards as you receive your gifts. This is practical because writing heartfelt thank you's is time consuming. It also lets your guests know that you received their gift and show gratitude. I wouldn't want my guests showing up at my wedding thinking that I was rude for not acknowledging their gift. I also am of the opinion that having a cutesy custom thank you card with say a wedding photo on it is not as important as getting those thank you notes out swiftly.

Don't wait. It'll cut down on the notes you have to do after the wedding and you'll get major kudos with the people who sent the gift if you get the notes out promptly.

Mental note- never answer first on a topic you do not know the proper etiquette about. HAHA. Thanks, ladies. Sorry, OP.

We got one early and I sent a thank you card. One less to do later!

I haven't even sent invites and have gotten four gifts. I'd say send them out as you get the gifts. it's tedious and if your guest list is larger (or even if it's more than 20) writing thank you notes all at once can seem daunting

Now. If you know they'll be at the wedding, add that you look forward to celebrating with them.

You'll save yourself those extra few to write afterwards when you'll have a huge pile plus it's really considered the polite thing to do to send it right away. Otherwise people wonder if you've gotten their gift or not.

My thank you note is written and will be sent tomorrow. If I get any others early I will continue to write them as I get them. That is how i am anyways I don't like waiting to do things, just wasn't sure what the correct way was. Thank you all for your responses.

@beautivant don't worry about it. I agreed with you so neither of us were correct haha.

I agree with Dee. If they will be at the wedding send it along with the others, if they will not be there send it now

I send a thank you card IMMEDIATELY after receiving any gift. No exceptions.

Do not wait and send it out ASAP.

We've actually already received a few gifts as well (our wedding isn't until October!).

We're waiting to open/use them until closer till the wedding. I've been writing thank you notes as I receive items (thank you BB&B packing slips) but are waiting to send them out. We want to include photos of us with the couple/photo booth photos with the thank you cards post wedding. They are written and ready to go... just waiting for the photos! Hopefully that's okay Don't really want to send out 2 sets of cards when we invited over 200 people!

If there's a better way to do this - please let me know!! I'm all ears!