I have a coworker who got married 3 weeks after DH and I. We both had long engagements so we would talk every day about what we were doing/planning for the wedding. It was fun though because he would complain about his FI being crazy and I would complain about DH not being supportive, etc.
So DH and I went to their wedding, got them a set of drinking glasses off their registry.
They still haven't sent out Thank You cards. I don't know if they're even going to. My coworker thanked me in person, and told me how those glasses were a lifesaver while they were moving, so I don't mind so much, but I'm sure there's going to be some cranky old relative who's not going to be sending them Christmas cookies this year.
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Ha, last year, I ordered our thank you cards on vistaprint. I got a little over what I thought I would need, but I miscalculated - I failed to count in three vendors and all the guests that did not come in, but sent us a gift (about 5). So, instead of ordering 10 more cards on vistaprint, i just decided not to sent TYs to a few of our friends that I knew would not care about a card (one of them gave us a wrong address and his invite returned, when I asked him for the correct address he said: we talk like every day, why do you need to waste paper to tell me I am invited?).
Maybe the same happened with you?
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Well that's a different story then. I think once it's been a year, you should not be sending them.
My Bff's for friend had a Christmas wedding and they had this one picture in front of a Christams tree. They sent their cards for Christmas next year and wrote TYs in them... I thought that was a little weird.
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