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Thank You Card/Christmas Card Combination?

posted 5 months ago in Etiquette
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  • poll: Which route would you go?
    Send two separate mailings - one for thank you card, one for christmas card : (12 votes)
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    Send a combined christmas/wedding thank you card : (3 votes)
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    sourbits    August 28, 2011  

    I'm just now getting to thank you cards. I'm shooting to finish and mail these out in a week. But, then Christmas is coming up, and I would be sending Christmas cards to these same family and friends around the same time. Does it make sense to do a combined wedding thank you/christmas card or send two mailings to the same people? Anybody in the same boat? What would you recommend?

     
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    HappierKate    September 29, 2012  

    I would recommend doing separate notes.

    Did you ever know someone who had a birthday on Christmas?  Think about how they felt about combined gifts, or how you would feel with only getting one day of gifts a year.  Even when it's someone who would only give a Christmas gift, the addition of "and birthday" kind of stings.

    It's very practical and if you're on a tight budget I can understand wanting to save on postage and effort, but I think that combining them has the potential to unintentionally insult people.  If you are not absolutely sure that your entire guestlist would be perfectly okay with a combination, you should probably be safe and separate the two.

     
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    samanthajkellie    February 4, 2012   Australia

    I would do a thank you note with at the end say "We hope you and your family have a very lovely Christmas and New year"

     
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    Ember78    December 15, 2012  

    Send them separately as they are for two entirely different things.

     
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    Dec-bride    December 2011   PA

    2 cards 1 envelope sounds fine to me. I would find 1 card for both odd though.

     

     

     
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    galloway111    June 16, 2012   WI

    Do you usually send Christmas cards separately or would this be your first year? FI and I aren't going to do Christmas cards for a few years because we can't afford it, so if it's a cost issue then you could just skip Christmas cards in the mail completely, at least for now. If it's not a money issue then I'd say send them separately.

    @dec-bride: I personally would find two cards in one envelope much stranger than one combined Christmas and thank you card, I'd wonder if there'd been a mailing mistake, lol.

     
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    All In    November 1, 2011  

    It seems to me that thank you cards should be dedicated to that purpose only. 

     

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