August 10, 2007

• Thank You Cards

  

  As soon as the wedding was over we went to our nearby Papyrus and order our address embosser from them. We ended up choosing a design that has an "L" (for our last name), our last name is on top and our address is circled around the letter. I wish i could take a picture of it but sadly I am not talented enough to take a nice picture. The reason why we bought this is a nice added finish to our envelopes that we will be sending out with our thank you cards snugged inside.

  

  For the thank you cards we went to Shutterfly note cards. 3.5"X5" cards (box of 12) at $9.99 each is a great deal to me. I love the fact that you can upload your own pictures and we haven't received our professional pictures yet but a great friend of mine has wonderful pictures that she has given us from the wedding. (You can see her work in my previous posts - Thanks Win ) We took one of the pictures from Win and ordered our thank you cards via Shutterfly. We should be getting them next week and although it will be more than a couple weeks when our guests receive them, we hope they appreciate the special touch of having a photo from the wedding.

  As far as wording thank you notes we're taking some tips from the web. About.com has great tips for various gifts such as: items from registry, people you don't know very well, gifts you received but they were not present at the wedding. Here's a example of a thank you note for cash gifts (which are especially common in a Chinese/Korean wedding):

  
  "Dear Mr. Harry Potter,
  
  
  Mr Poppy and I wanted to thank you greatly for the check you sent for a
  wedding gift. We are saving to buy a new car, and your gift will help
  us reach our goal. We can’t wait to take you for a spin around the
  neighborhood.
  
  
  Best wishes,
  
  
  Mrs. Poppy "

  
  

  Okay, okay so Harry Potter wasn't a guest at our wedding but I'm currently reading it so I thought I'd throw it in there. It's also very nice to let your guests know how you have/are planning to use their gift. But in the end of it all you know your guests, you'll know what is genuine and in the end that means more than anything else.
  

  

  And thank you Weddingbee readers, bees and last but not least Mrs. Bee for promoting such a beautiful, supportive community of love.

  Love,
  Mrs. Poppy (and of course Mr. Poppy)

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