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Okay, I'm feeling horrible about this.  It's been two months since my wedding and I still don't have my thank you notes anywhere close to done.  I really wanted to use our photos in the thank yous, so I waited and waited and waited (and some of you may have read my posts about the difficulty with our photos) and I'm still waiting.  I went out and bought other thank yous and started those, but I hate them.  HATE.  It's a strong word and I mean it.  They're not what I want and I don't want to send them out.  It's not a huge loss because I only have about a dozen of them done, and I've decided I really just want to scrap them and wait until I can send out the ones I really love.  Is that terrible?  I mean, am I being ridiculous?  Should I just suck it up and send out the chintzy ones (they actually cost me a bit of moolah, but at this point I just. don't. care.)?  I'm afraid that I'm being horribly rude because my notes haven't gone out yet, but I can't seem to get past my ridiculous need to do photo thank yous and my boiling hatred of the ones I already have.  What should I do?  Speak sense to me, hive.

I know you're right.  I KNOW.  :(  But I can't put into words how bad these other ones look.  I got this idea into my head when I realized the pictures were going to take forever and I tried to get all crafty (NOT my strong-suit) and they turned out awful.  I spent a couple days trying to make them less awful and then I spent this morning trying to convince myself it was okay and to send them out anyway.  But I'm having difficulty.  I'm supposed to have my photos Tuesday...what if I promise to get the notes out by the end of the week??  

Sigh, I know, I'm being absurd.  

We had our photographer send us a few photos to choose from for our thank you cards. They all went out right about 8 weeks after our wedding, since we had to wait on the photos, and then order the cards. If you can't get a response from your photographer about pictures, I wouldn't wait any longer. I know it stinks when you want something to be just right, but the most important thing is that the thank you cards get sent.

Some of you may have read my post about my photog using our photos in an ad but not having them available to us--that was last week and I very firmly told her that was not acceptable and that if she was going to be using them we wanted to at least see them!  This magically made her respond to me after 6 weeks of no responses.  So, she has promised me that she will have the photos to us by Tuesday.  For STDs I took the photos and had cards printed same-day and they were adorable, so I am planning to do that again and have the cards out by the end of next week.  We're at 2 months right now, so they would be out before the 2 1/2 month mark.  Yes/no?

Holy hell, I think I'm crazier about this than I was about any single detail of our wedding.

@bakerella: I definitely won't!  Thanks!

If you get them in the next few days then I'd use the photos. I wanted to do photo thankyous too but in the end I got over it and bought some nice ones (like you, which cost a fair bit!) and just got them out. I'm planning on including some wedding photos in Xmas cards this year instead - a year after the fact but better late than never right :)

@daniellemybelle: Glad to know I'm not the only one!  We WILL get them done!

@mountain.bride: I feel your pain...on both the photo waiting and the crazy cost of thank you notes!  Hence why I tried to get crafty and then failed and failed hard.  I'll give it until Tuesday, and if they're not here, I'll scrap the photo plan and save them for Christmas!

Can you send the store-purchased thank you notes to the older generation?  And then wait on the photos to do the thank you notes for your friends?  That way, you're getting some of them done and frankly, it will be the old generation that stalks their mailboxes daily waiting for your thank you note! 

No one cares what kind of card the thank you notes are on.  Just send them, send pics later.

A week isn't a big deal.  And having them be pictures will help 'excuse' the delay.

But yeah, thank you notes are not about you, thank you notes are about them.  (The generic "you" and "them").  And its not "them" that cares what the cards look like.  Doesn't matter if it has pictures on it or not.