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I think you could definatly cash them before the thank you cards. But maybe you should wait until after the wedding.
Go ahead and cash them now and send a thank you before your wedding.
I agree. Cash them relatively close to the time you plan to send out the thank yous.
I hate writing someone a check and then not cashing it...so the money still sits in my bank account and I forget that I wrote the check eventually and spend the money... Anyway, I'd probably appreciate it if you cashed the check right away :) But of course, maybe dont spend the money till after the wedding?
I agree you should cash the check and write the thank you right away. I've had my account go into overdraft because of a check I forgot I had written that someone didn't cash right away.
Cash them but you should send thankyou notes now. Acknowleding all wedding gifts received before the wedding as soon as you received them is polite. People may worry if you received them and they may also be checking thier accounts to see if they have cleared. Then send another thankyou later for attending the wedding and how nice it was to see them. It not only shows people that you received the gift but it also allows you more time to get out some of the notes. You have a little more leeway with thankyous for attending than for thankyous for a gift.
Hm, I'd never heard of writing thank yous for attending - is this normal practice? Gifts have been coming in so I've been writing thank yous to those people, but I wasn't planning to send them anything after the wedding.
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You should try to send the thank you within two weeks of getting the gift, is what I have heard. So you definately shouldn't wait until after the wedding.
I have no idea what the etiquette is on check cashing - I just know that I get really annoyed when it takes a check forever to clear. So I would actually go ahead and cash them - presumably people wrote them with the money in their accounts, and it will be a chore for them to keep track of that one check that's still not cashed.
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We're doing "thank-you for the gift" before for anything recieved before the wedding, and then after the wedding we're sending out thank-yous for everyone who gave us something at the wedding, and "thanks for attending" for those who were already thanked/didn't give anything/etc.
I think it's nice to thank people for attending the wedding as well as giving a gift, because really that's why you invite people!
If someone sent you a gift before the wedding and also attended it is nice to send an acknowledgement that they came to your party. Especially if you are including a picture from the wedding.
i would def cash it as soon as you get it. i don't get my canceled checks sent to me (most people don't anymore, as it's all online), so i just assume that about a week after i have written a check, that $$ won't be in my bank account. having to keep looking online to see whether a check has been deposited or not would be so annoying!
yeah, my wedding is tomorrow and I was wondering the same thing! I decided to go down and cash them today, because I have had them for a few weeks (oops!)....I will write the thank you's today, I promise! all our checks so far have been from people who aren't coming. If they were, I would honestly probably hold off and do one thank you for gift and coming to the wedding!
I cashed mine as soon as I got them for the reasons listed above. I hate when I write a check and then forget about it until several weeks later when my account is missing $X. I think it's just a courtesy to cash the checks right away. But I'll be sure to get the thank you notes out.
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Cashing them soon after receiving them, even if you don't get a thank you out right away (especially if you don't) alerts the giver that it was received and not lost in the mail.
A thank you also alerts the giver that you're the one who received it.
while i agree with the fact that you should cash it before.... i think the proper etiquette of this matter is to send the thank you FIRST then cash the check... that way they have been thanked properly and you don't look greedy or potentially forget/get busy with wedding craziness and not get the note to them in a timely manner.... it's a practice i've always followed for any monetary gifts: thank you note first then cash check! it's just the proper way of accepting the gift! plus you want to get the note out as soon as possible, that way you can cash the check asap too!
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Hi,
I have a bunch of checks that were mailed to me as wedding presents, do you guys think its okay to cash them before writing a thank you card?
I plan to send out all the thank you cards for the wedding presents after the wedding...so should I wait to cash them after the wedding?
Thanks!