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Merline
Super February 2020

Thank Yous

Merline, on July 22, 2020 at 2:38 PM Posted in Etiquette and Advice 0 20

Soooo...my DH and I had our bridal shower 1/11 (had thank yous written a few days later) then got married 2/29 (written thank yous about 3 weeks later because we went on our honeymoon then moved immediately after getting back and got settled in). Yesterday, I was cleaning out a box and found ALL of the thank you's for his family/friends that he said he would hand delivered and/or drop at the post office. These events were about 5/6 months ago. We have been around his family recently or I have called and check up on them periodically. They have not said anything about them, but I also do not want them to think that we are ungrateful. The thank yous were written for money, items, things off our registry, etc that were given to us. Like I know one says something like "we could not have done all of our activities during our honeymoon without your generous gift...". I have plenty of envelops and cards because I had purchased a bulk thank cards. So my questions are 1. Should I just go ahead and mail them out as is? 2. Should I go back and re-write some that I know were money gifts because everything was so long ago? 3. Forget about it since no one has send anything? This is stressing me out!! I know they say better late than never but my goodness we are going on 6ish months. What would you all do?

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Latest activity by Margaret, on July 22, 2020 at 9:14 PM
  • M
    Legend June 2019
    Melle ·
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    I would go ahead and mail it out as is. Some people take as long as five or six months to send wedding thank you’s anyway.
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  • Kirsten
    Devoted October 2020
    Kirsten ·
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    I would send them as is.
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  • Margaret
    Master October 2020
    Margaret ·
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    I would put them into an envelope with a hand written note apologizing and stating you thought these were mailed but apparently got "lost" in the move. Or just send as they are as the pp noted.

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  • Jessica
    Master September 2020
    Jessica ·
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    I would send them as is. I can totally see my FH doing this too! I doubt anyone would say anything about not receiving a thank you, but I’m sure plenty noticed.
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  • Lena
    Devoted May 2021
    Lena ·
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    Better late than never. I would definitely send them. Smiley smile

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  • Caytlyn
    Legend November 2019
    Caytlyn ·
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    I would send them and also have your husband reach out and apologize for not dropping them off sooner.
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  • VIP August 2020
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    Definitely send them. This is one of those things where it's better late than never. If you're really worried about it, a week or so after you mail them, so you know most people will have received them, send a text or email to the people you are closest to saying, "I hope you got our note, I'm so sorry it took so long to get you you. I just found the entire pile of them while we were moving, after thinking for months that we had already mailed them. I just wanted you to know that I really did appreciate your gift. Thanks again!" Or something like that. The only ones I would bother rewriting would be any that are for money where you said, we're looking forward to doing [a thing] with it and it's obvious that you've already done [the thing] or bridal shower thank you notes that you wrote before the wedding and said we're looking forward to seeing you at the wedding. If the notes said, "this is how we USED the money on our honeymoon," that's still true, so you don't need to change anything.
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  • Elizabeth
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    Elizabeth ·
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    Send them out as is. If someone mentions it, I would tell them the truth about what happened, but that's the relationship my partner and I have - we'd both laugh about it.

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  • Merline
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    Merline ·
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    Okay I was just nervous about sending it because I saw that you have like two months to send after your wedding and three weeks after your shower.

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  • Merline
    Super February 2020
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    Okay will do! Thank you

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  • Merline
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    Merline ·
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    Okay! I will probably just mail them as is. I'm sure at this point people will just roll their eyes and toss them out lol.

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  • Merline
    Super February 2020
    Merline ·
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    Oh man when he got home last night I was like what is this and he just smiled and said they know how much we appreciate their gifts. I can recall all of the events and weddings that I have gone to where I have not received a thank you. I just feel bad because we literally babysat his cousins kids a few weeks ago and she was the one who hosted our shower. He was suppose to hand deliver that one. Ugh...men lol gotta love em.

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  • Merline
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    Merline ·
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    That's what I was thinking. I will probably just slap a stamp on the ones that were suppose to be hand delivered and mail them out tomorrow. Although he said he would hand deliver them this weekend.

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  • Merline
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    I asked him to do that next week when we know that they have received the thank yous.

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  • Merline
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    Merline ·
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    Thank you! I will definitely have to go through the bridal shower ones. I'm pretty sure they all said see you at the wedding or cannot wait to celebrate with you. I hope to have them re-written and out by Saturday the latest!

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  • Merline
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    Yea we are pretty open.

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  • J
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    Jana ·
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    Send them out asap. Most people are too polite to say anything about not getting them. You have up to a year per etiquette to get them out but the sooner the better.
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  • Merline
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    I will send them out Saturday! I know there are a few I need to rewrite at this point.

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  • Jessica
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    I completely understand! What would we do without them? Lol
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  • Margaret
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    I promise they’ll be appreciative and a nice welcome after all this Covid stuff
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