Thank You Card Question

We're waiting on our photos before printing the thank you cards too. I've always liked these more than the generic cards. Since it was a DW, I plan to send them to guests who did not gift as well but we'll still be personalizing each individual one. 😊

I feel like there's really only so many ways to say thank you and a generic card isn't the end of the world. Vistaprint had a sale on postcards style cards so I did those. I'll have to personalize it but if they had a sale on something more generic I would have done those too.

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That's what I was thinking. I like the picture idea but I'm not sure the pre-worded thank you is okay?

I feel like that’s kinda lazy and impersonal. If I spent money on a gift for you the least you can do is spent 2 minutes on a card to thank me for it 🤷🏻‍♀️

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So you are okay with not thanking them for the specific gift, just having a generic pre-printed "thank you for your beautiful gift" or something?

I think having photos and pre-wording on the thank you cards is fine if there's space to leave a handwritten note!

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That's my issue with it but I didn't know if I was being a diva! I'm leaning towards personalized thank you cards with our picture and a generic "thank you from Mr. & Mrs." then writing a personal note on the back.

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That's what I'm leaning towards!

View Quoted Comment I think I'm going to leave the pre-worded part at "Thank You" with our names. However, hand-write either inside or behind the card (haven't decided on the style yet) so it is more personal for each guest.

To be honest, this was the route we took. I was originally planning on hand writing each individual thank you card, but life got busy. We immediately started moving into a new house after the wedding / honeymoon, and have been working on that all summer. On top of our full time jobs, and taking care of our kids. So, I ended up printing photo thank you cards that all said the same thing. Every thank you card I have ever received in the mail was always opened, read, and thrown in the trash. Which is what I think most people do, and I think that most people are just happy to receive the "thank you" and don't care too much on the details.

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That's what I'm thinking too! I just would feel weird not having any personal note I guess.

View Quoted Comment Honestly I'd rather skip thank you cards entirely and phone call people, it's more efficient and personal. But people get up in arms over not getting the paper so I got kind of generic ones with space to write something.
I personally feel generic ones are fine, especially with a large guest list.

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Yeah that makes sense! It's for sure better than no thank you card at all. I just was hoping they would hand write something since we flew from CO to NY and got them a nice gift I guess, but I understand being busy.

I'm old school, I plan to write a more personalized note to everyone. I think it's special when someone remembers what you got for them.

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I agree, or if they traveled from out of state or did something extra special.

We’re having blank thank you cards made with a photo. We wanted our guest to know that it meant for them the be there and give us a gift.

I just wrote all my thank you notes from my shower, and I can see both sides. There were some people I had some really personal thoughts for like if I got to visit with them and hadn't seen them in a while or if they got me something super special. But like, one couple from my church got me a toaster. Granted, the toaster was on my registry and I'm very thankful for the gift, I just didn't have much to say about it. I wouldn't be upset to get a standard line as long as it was handwritten.

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Everyone is different, and everyone's expectations are different. If this is something you place high importance on, then I think you should hand write yours. And I am sure your guests will love your thank you cards. But I also don't see anything wrong with generic ones. At least with my crowd, I know most of them won't think twice about it not being hand written, they will just be happy to be thought of. This is what we sent:

Back of post cardFront of post card

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That's what I'm leaning towards! A picture of us but with a handwritten note.

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I know that struggle! About 1 month before our wedding, I wrote thank you cards to everyone that had sent a gift for the wedding and everyone for my shower and my bridesmaids who gifted me stuff at my bachelorette. It ended up being around 60 thank you cards and it was exhausting. I think we are leaning towards hand writing. It takes a lot of time and energy, but we had so many people travel in from out of state so they really did so much to be there for us.