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Beyond tacky?
So....I will be married for a year on August 14. I am just now sending my thank you cards out. Tacky? On a scale 1-10....10 being the worst. Let's hear it........
Re: Beyond tacky?
"Don't marry a man unless you would be PROUD to have a son exactly like him." ~ Unknown
I would side eye a bit but would be thrilled at the same time to get a formal thank you card.
I do not send thank you cards for birthdays, christmas, and whatnot. I do expect to be thanked for any wedding related gift and took our wedding thank you cards very seriously.
Just go ahead and do it. There is a wedding I sent a gift for about 8 years ago. Never received a thank you. Did mine within the month. The gifts were so thoughtful I felt bad having to see people knowing I hadn't formally thanked them. We waited because we included a wedding photo on the card. Maybe you could take a snapshot of the two of you and include in the card? Very inexpensive way to soften things a bit. Just a thought. At least you're doing them.
I hate not being thanked for gifts. People that attended mine who brought no gifts got a formal thank you card saying thank you for celebrating with us.
You should still send them out though, better late than never. Maybe include a funny line about forgetting for so long...can't think of anything clever at the moment.
at a year later I would probably forget about it. Because of family issues, shcool and everything else that was going on before the wedding, I didnt get my shower thank yous out...I scrapped them and am making sure to include the shower gifts in my thank you notes with the wedding. I think a year late feels a bit dumb imo. But there are those who might still be expecting them, so its up to you!
(our thank you cards will be late too, but because our photographer never got them to us till this week!)
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I love how having a small wedding/shower makes it "more okay" for it to be late.. In my opinion, it makes it worse because you really didn't have that much to do!
Umm, just because I had a smaller guest list did not mean I didn't have a ton to do.
I'm not saying you didn't still have a lot to do, but logic just says that the amount of work to do with thank you notes is going to increase alongside the guest list. Therefore, having a smaller list logically means less work.. sure, it's still a lot and still a bit overwhelming, but come on. You can't act like it's the same as those with guest lists in the 300+ range (which I had, and got my thank you notes out in the mail the Monday after the wedding, thank you).
I believe etiquette is 6 months for thank you cards for weddings. And they have a year for gifts. So whenever gifts come in you have time after that too of course.
I also believe better late than never. Relatives always love letters/
When we moved I could not find my cards or my mailing list. I finally found everything. I had so many gift cards!
I hope my guest will forgive me!!!! I