"thank you" card etiquette poll - clicky!

LisaMinFL

Please offer your opinion:[Poll]

Jim&Jaime

If the photo was from the party, it would be cute, but I would also add a "thank for for the such and such" message.

smooge

Option 2 is really never ok in my opinion.  You've got to write a personal thank you or else there is really no point. 

kthappy76

I hate pre-printed TY cards.  I've gotten a few for wedding gifts and they are lame-o...

TarHeels&Rebels

Jim&Jaime:

If the photo was from the party, it would be cute, but I would also add a "thank for for the such and such" message.

I am an etiquette stickler, but I think this is ok for gifts received in the $10-$20 range.  We are, after all, talking about a child's 1st bday, not a wedding.  I'd write a note on the back about how much Sarah's enjoying the new X.  I would emphatically NOT send off the cards without writing a personal note.

If someone gives a $100 savings bond, they need a note.

wejustwant2:)

Jim&Jaime:

If the photo was from the party, it would be cute, but I would also add a "thank for for the such and such" message.

I am an etiquette stickler, but I think this is ok for gifts received in the $10-$20 range.  We are, after all, talking about a child's 1st bday, not a wedding.  I'd write a note on the back about how much Sarah's enjoying the new X.  I would emphatically NOT send off the cards without writing a personal note.

If someone gives a $100 savings bond, they need a note.

 

ALL THIS.

BrittanyDee

I am not a big fan of pre-printed card.  Even for a little one's birthday.  For our son's first birthday I wrote a really quick note saying thanks for whatever gift, and then put his handprint on each one.  They were easy enough that it didn't seem like too much effort!

Mere7706

FWIW, we did a photo thank you for my son's party. They were a hit (and I know this because people called us to tell us they loved it and many of our family and friends still have it on their refrigerator). 

LisaMinFL

Thanks everyone! I thought it would be really cute to use a photo from the party.I think I will order a photo card with a blank message, and then use a sharpie pen to write the message in the blank spot...or see if I can find a folding photo card, blank inside. I appreciate it!

Notwifezilla7

LisaMinFL:

Thanks everyone! I thought it would be really cute to use a photo from the party.I think I will order a photo card with a blank message, and then use a sharpie pen to write the message in the blank spot...or see if I can find a folding photo card, blank inside. I appreciate it!

That's what I did for DD1's first birthday. I had leftover personalized TY cards from DD2's birth, and used those for her thank yous and added pics inside- including pics I had printed of any kids who were at the party.

Jim&Jaime

LisaMinFL:

Thanks everyone! I thought it would be really cute to use a photo from the party.I think I will order a photo card with a blank message, and then use a sharpie pen to write the message in the blank spot...or see if I can find a folding photo card, blank inside. I appreciate it!

Go to TinyPrints.com. I love their site and know they have fold-over photo cards. Good luck! 

lsgarver

Jim&Jaime:

LisaMinFL:

Thanks everyone! I thought it would be really cute to use a photo from the party.I think I will order a photo card with a blank message, and then use a sharpie pen to write the message in the blank spot...or see if I can find a folding photo card, blank inside. I appreciate it!

Go to TinyPrints.com. I love their site and know they have fold-over photo cards. Good luck! 

Our friends did this and wrote the message in the photo card--that's the best option, IMO.  A photo card with no handwritten message is tacky and lazy.

SBS0628

I was going to suggest what you already mentioned (do a photo card but include a handwritten note).

I also am a total sap and I love it when I get cards that (in addition to a normal note from the parents!!!) includes a little scribble in the corner that was obviously created by the one-year-old. A friend of mine does this in cards she sends -- she'll write a note, she and her husband will sign it, there will be a weird scribble, and under the weird scribble she writes "From James." Some people might think it's cheesy, but I think it's cute.

SLAHSarah

I was rather appalled at lunch yesterday when 2 coworkers said they don't see the point in thank you cards.  They said "those are such an old fashioned thing".  What I wanted to yell was that thank-yous are not old-fashioned, but simply good manners.  But then I realized yelling would be bad mannered on my part.  So I opted to excuse myself.