Writing Wedding Thank You Notes

Writing wedding thank you notes shouldn't be a chore, so try to stay upbeat and get htem done as soon as you can. Sure, Aunt Helen gave you a boring toaster and you hadn’t seen her in years and she probably won’t read the darn thing but you have to thank her properly with personalized stationery, it is your duty. She didn’t ruin the wedding after all, right?

Some guests, close personal friends are a joy to send thank you notes, the ones that gave you a big check or plane tickets to Hawaii. Wow, you have nice friends, don’t you? These will be the easy thank you notes to write, the ones that you’ll look forward to writing.

Here’s the trick, mix in the Aunt Helen note with some of close friends notes as you write. That will make the more difficult ones a bit easier because you’ll be in the flow of things and you’ll be smiling more as you think about the trip in Hawaii.

Personalize, personalize, personalize, that is the name of the game. Everyone that you invited to your wedding (well, except for some of his friends perhaps) has a special bond to you. Again, you haven’t seen Aunt Helen in years, but she is your Dad’s long lost sister and you own her a debt of gratitude. Remember that day years ago when she took you to the park for ice cream, well here’s your opportunity to thank her and to make it personal and heartfelt.

For personal best friends you’re going to need a lot of space, don’t feel constrained by the dimensions of the card! Write on the back for Pete’s sack, burst through all that space and show the love that you feel for the person. This is something that she’ll keep in her dresser drawer for years and occasionally take out and hold close to her heart. Aww. Your notes can certainly be that way, it doesn’t have to be formulaic…thank you for the bread maker, hope you had a good time at the wedding, no, make it count. Don’t be afraid about making mistakes, just get into a flow of things.

Some people are going to want to write all the thank you notes in one day, they’re going to find one lazy Sunday and just pump them out. And that’s fine, but a lot of people will feel more comfortable just doing a few at a time. Don’t procrastinate too long or the months will go by, that is guaranteed.

Customize your thank you notes based on the person, as was mentioned before, some will be more formal and others will have you using more slang than a teenage-chat-on-Facebook. LOL. That’s just the way it’s going to be. Do not make it out to be a chore, if you do you’re just going to put it off. A spoon full of sugar helps the medicine go down.

Oh and have your husband write the thank you notes to his friends, the ones that were up until four in the morning in the hotel lobby dancing with potted plants. Enough said.