We mixed up the gifts and cards!!!

Oh no I'm sorry I don't know what to tell you!

You could always do a generic "Thank you for your generous/thoughtful gift."

I saw this, and thought it was kind of nice but I'm not sure

I'm with @Katie's idea. Just do a generic response that seems like it could encompass everything. It will be fine.

@LeahH just don't let your husband open presents drunk lol

Fun story: At my shower one of the hosts documented who gifted what. Get home, unpack, no list to be found. Blind panic, texting the hosts and my mom almost in tears. Luckily, I was able to remember most of who got me what, and the others were documented in pictures. I only had to do two generic Thank You cards.

Moral, I guess, is don't panic. You can bullshit your way through. Also, nobody is (probably) going to see anyone else's thank you card. So they won't be any wiser of what is written.

Agreed, this is a nightmare situation.

I would do something generic - but still handwritten.

If gifts came off a registry, can you find out from the store who purchased what?

Ask parents if they happen to know who gave what.

Make DH write the TY notes as punishment, LOL!

Omg! I'm sorry this happened

This happened to us!! We had an engagement/housewarming party and FH drunkenly and excitedly began opening all the cards and mixing them up that night instead of listening to my suggestion to wait until the morning! I just did a generic thank you. I fell like such a turd. I had to play detective to try and remember who brought what! I know he was excited but I'm a control freak and wanted to write the thank yous at the time we opened each thing. I told him he is under no circumstances allowed to touch the wedding gifts/cards until the next morning, in fact, I am in charge of it!! I just hate being made to look like I don't have any sense of etiquette because everyone who knows me knows I wouldn't do that! So hopefully our guests realized it wasn't me!

That being said, it's really not a big deal though, at least they will get a thank you, which I suppose is better than nothing at all!

Good luck!

Where any photos taken as you opened gifts?

Do any of their cards reference their gifts ("We enjoy waffles every Sunday and hope you will, too")

My go to is "thank you for your generous gift"

Unfortunately no. I remember some of the cards that had cash in them and I remember what my maid of honor got us...monies the ones that were mailed to our house, I'm clueless.

You can try checking with who you registered with to try and get names for gifts and for checks just look at the name on the top. For anything that you truly can't figure out just go with the generic thank you for the generous gift and try to get more personal with thanking them for travelling/celebrating with you, etc

Did you have an online registry for any of the gifts? A lot of registries will keep purchase information and you can match up gifts to gift-givers that way!

We were registered at Bed Bath and Beyond.

Yikes... well, a handwritten thank you card is still better than nothing. I would go the "thank you for the generous gift" route unless you can pull up info from your registry.

"Thank you for the generous gift and for celebrating with us! We are so happy you could be a part of our special day!"

ALWAYS HANDWRITTEN!

The same thing happened to us at our engagement party. We had a ton of wine bottles and some gifts that the cards got removed from. But we had more cards than bottles of wine or gifts with missing cards. We knew there were some people who gave us a card with no gift, but didn't know who those people were. We ended up writing a thank you card for everyone that gave us a card (after writing the personal thank you's for the gifts we knew who they were from). Those cards basically said thank you for celebrating the day with us, etc but with no mention of a gift because we didn't want to thank people for their "generous gift" if they just gave us a card. It was a mess, but at least everyone got a thank you card : /

I love the idea of making you husband write them as punishment!