Pre-Printed Thank You cards

It would make life easier but I like personalized cards. The front of ours had 3 wedding pictures, with "Thank You" centered at the top and then our names and wedding date. I left the back blank so I could write notes to each guest. The way I looked at it was my guest took time out of their weekend, some traveling across the country, just to attend my wedding and gave me a gift or money on top of that so the least I could do was hand write them a thank you card. I broke mine up so I only did a few a night. Took about a week or so but they were all personalized. I bought mine from Vista print for free, 100 postcards, and only paid for shipping and envelopes. Total I spent $21.

Good point Brandie. I always thought a personalized card was nicer and deserved. I just was wondering...

By the time I got to the end of our list some people got "thanks for coming, we love your gift" .... short and sweet because my hand was killing me. I noticed I took more time with my immediate family members or those who gave us more then what they should have. Not that we didn't appreciate everyone's gift but I did want to take more time with our parents and siblings and grandparents. Someone on here said they found a font that looks just like handwriting. You would still have to type most of them out you'd be free of handwriting them. Not sure who that was though.

I would handwrite them and just do a standard message. I would appreciate it if I got a handwritten one. i know they are a pain, but just do them in stages...write so many a day and then it won't feel overwhemling.

I did that with my shower Thank You cards. My bridal party and my family got books...lol. Everyone else got a "thank you so much for your generous gift and so glad you were there to share the day with me"

Oh I would love to know what that font is! Do you remember when the thread was?

What's teh time period you have to get them out?

I might be wrong but I really think it was EDubbsWife who had the thread or commented on one. I've heard 8 weeks after the wedding and I've heard a year. Personally I think a year is too long. My were out in 9 weeks.

I realize I'm jumping in on a conversation here...I personally HATE writing TY cards, but I think the pre-printed ones are tacky. The guests took the time to come to your event (wedding, shower, whatever) and give you a gift. You can take the time to hand-write a note thanking them. I'm sure I'll be grumbling about this in 6 weeks when I go to write mine, but I do think hand-written is the way to go.

My goal will be to have them done w/in 8 weeks of the wedding - but I'm probably going to start working on them sooner. I'll probably just knock out 10 a night or something like that until they're done so I don't hate my hand.

Vistaprint has a free postcard Very similar to what Brandie described.

I think a preprinted message is ok if you leave space under it to have a little hand written sentence or two. "Thank you for sharing in our special day and for the generous gift. It is much appreciated. Hope to see you soon. Bride and Groom"

I agree, if you google it, it says a Year, but I also agree that is a little long. I say under 2 or 3 months tops.

I agree with Ashley, writing them is a PAIN, but they're so much nicer to receive. I would be a little put-off by a pre-printed one. The ones I just ordered have "Thank You" printed on them, but I'm also going to write a message to the person. I bought a little book called something like "A Bride's Guide To Writing Thank You's" and it was SUPER helpful when it came to writing the thank you's for the bridal shower. It has lots of ideas and different ways to say the same thing.

I definitely like that as well something simple like "Thank you for sharing our day" and then writing something like we appreciate blah blah blah.... it was great seeing you blah blah blah...

We had our thank you cards preprinted with a generic thank you message... but we also went back and addressed them to our guests and added an added thank you... so like our generic message was thank you for joining us! and then we added, Dear mom & dad, thank you so much for all your help! You get the idea

here's a link to the thread i had on my thank you cards -https://www.weddingwire.com/wedding-forums/just-got-our-thank-you-cards-and-they-look-so-good/239eede105875527.html

Hi Brandie! Thanks for remembering! Here is a picture of the inside one that we did using the font "Celine Dion." Each one was personalized, but I cannot write much with a pen because I am getting carpal tunnel syndrome and I need to preserve my handwriting for grading papers!

The outside says thank you and uses the flourish we used on all of the paper of the wedding.

I used a "dear joe" font for my bridal shower thank yous. My guests could not figure out how I got "handwritten" thank you notes printed professionally and personalized! They kept asking me "How did you do this?" and for a while I didn't know what they were asking me! LOL.

Here's a picture of what they look like when they were done. We are sending them with a CD of our special wedding and reception songs as well as the leftover favors (matches and mints) we bought too many as it was cheaper to buy more than we needed.

If you are going to use the pre-printed option I would still right something personal in each one. Personally if I was a guest, I would like a little note in there instead of just a signature.

I realize that this reply is a bit late to the game, but I do believe it's valuable information that is still very relevant today.

I recently attended a wedding of someone I have known since she was a child. Our gift to the bride and groom was $500 towards their honeymoon. For that gift we received a generic "Thank You". I was offended and disappointed. Had we given them a cutting board , a generic "Thank You' would have been fine. BUT that is not what was given. I still believe that $500 is a nice chunk of change and far more deserving of a personalized note. Don't be lazy, don't be entitled, be grateful and take a few minutes of your busy day to let people know that their gift was appreciated.