Nonspecific Thank You Cards for Cash

I didn't put any specifcs. I didn't even realize I was supposed. But most of the cash we got went to savings or the honeymoon....

That's perfectly fine. If I give cash I don't expect people to tell me exactly how they're going to spend it.

Agreed with Mrs. S. What you wrote is exactly what I would write.

I always give cash and never expect an explanation as to what they used it for.

I think your general thank you is spot on Mrs. Ohler. It was what we sent out to our guests.

Mrs O, I hear ya. I'm doing thank you notes right now. We got a few tangible gifts, and a few gifts of money/checks. It's so hard to write a thank you for a monetary gift. So much easier to say "Thanks so much for the Le Cruset baking dishes, we use them all the time" which we do. (They were our favorite gift!) For us, we made the thank you's fit the giver. I had one friend who doesn't have a lot of money, that gave us a small check, bless her heart. I made sure to earmark that special gift for a special something--not expensive- that I've needed forever-- a hand mixer. I made sure I told her that's what we did with it. Another friend, who is always joking, got a thank you note that we weren't sure if we spent it on booze or gambling, but rest assured we had fun with it on our honeymoon. Some friends I just thanked for their generosity in helping us start a new life together. Hope this rambling was somewhat helpful. LOL.

What you wrote is fine (:

I'm working on our TY cards today too.

We also got a lot of cash gifts. I'm trying to do what Julie's doing. Also there are a few people who gave us money towards certain things - like my dad wanted to help us with our HM plane tickets, that kind of thing. So for those people, I'll mention specifically what the money helped us buy or do. But for most people I'll say pretty much what you just wrote.

We'll put something generally along the lines of what we'll spend it on, but we are planning to remodel basically our entire home after the wedding. I think what you put in the op is just fine. I'd never expect an explanation (although the last wedding I attended I didn't even get a thank you for the cash we gave. how rude.)

Okay, I'm glad not everyone else is naming specific things that they are using the money for for every guest. I got a little worried with all the "etiquette" sites always saying that you should.

We got a lot of gift cards for my bridal shower and in all those I said that they would be useful when it comes time to upgrade our household items or when we live in a bigger house and have more room to fill with new items (written out a little more eloquently then that.. I forget how I worded them). I didn't want to have to write basically the same on the wedding cards.

I have to tell you a funny story. One card we opened was from DH's old friends. 2 couples and a single guy. What was in it was the following: One 100 dollar bill, one 1 dollar bill, two dimes and a lifesaver. I had no idea how to write thank you notes for that oddball gift. Leave it to him, my darling husband did a great job. He wrote to one of the givers: "I'm not sure to thank you for the 100 dollars, the 1 dollar, or the 20 cents and the lifesaver, but what ever you were responsible, thanks!" I guess funny dorky friends give funny dorky gifts, so they get a dorky thank you note!

Hilarious Julie!

Lmao Julie!

We found a pizza menu and a random thank you card from my mom in our card box, along with some random newspaper clippings about the controversy between Polish and German polkas. (My mom likes to cut out newspaper articles on random ish and send it to us.) We were like........wtf? And then I remembered that I had dropped a couple things in the cardbox when I made it to make sure they would reach the bottom. lol! It took us a while to figure that out, though.