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I finally got stamps on the way home so now I can send my thank you notes! I got them out in just under 8 weeks after the wedding. I don't think that is too bad considering they have been completed for the last 3 weeks... I am such a slacker! I didn't have enough stamps and I wanted to send them out together but I could never remember to get stamps!

How long did it take you to get all your thank you notes out the door?

I need to show this thread to my husband. He started NAGGING me every day the minute we got back from the honeymoon to get the cards all sent out. We got the last ones out on Oct 20, about a month and a half after the wedding. He thinks we did soooo bad. Haha, I tried to tell him people don't expect them like ::snap::

I guess I'm a bit of a slacker.  My wedding was August 22nd and I'm working on the TY notes every night this week!  I've already missed the 2 month mark so my goal is to get them out before the 3 month mark hits (but hopefully much sooner!)

BTW, I just saw the old Everybody Loves Raymond where Robert and Amy get back form their honeymoon and Marie gets on them b/c the TY notes haven't been sent out yet.

I keep telling my hubby I have two months and every week he nags, nags, nags! It's okay though, I procrastinate with this kind of stuff so it's good that he never let's me forget about our thank you's. I actually did work on them last night a little bit. I think I still have another week and half though to get them out in a fair amount of time so I've got to get going on them.

@mskalinin - My husband is nagging me too which I find interesting b/c he refuses to write any since "his handwriting sucks".  I think part of the reason I've been slacking is that I HATE being told what to do, so every night when he asks me if I'm going to work on them, I get annoyed that he is "telling me what to do" but not doing it himself.

My husband did all the notes for his side (which were more than my side). There is no way in hell I would write notes for my husbands guests!! I don't even know half of them hardly at all. Did a lot of you write the notes for his side? All I did was sign my name at the bottom of his, and he signed his name at the bottom of mine.

Kind of like the wedding planning, I'm doing just about all of it. My hubby's handwriting is terrible too and if it were up to him he'd probably just buy a blank card, write "thank you" in it and send it off. He just leaves the details to me :)

I'm writing all of them but I have been sitting down with him to figure out what to say in the note.  I don't know a lot of the people from his side so I needed his input on any "special wedding moments" I could mention that involved them (not that he had any).

I got mad at him for nagging me about the notes when he was refuing to write them.  He typed up a word document with a bunch of thank you notes so that I could just copy them onto the cards.  That didn't work out b/c he really isn't great at the wording and I had to reword almost all of them.  Now we just sit down together and write them but it takes FOREVER b/c we have to discuss every single one.  Once we get through his family I'll be able to do the rest myself and I think it will go more quickly. 

BTW, does anyone know of some nice working for "thanks for the money, it went into savings that we will eventually use to pay off the second mortgage"?  So far I've been writing things like "your gift will help with some home renovation projects we have planned" and "your gift will be very helpful as we start our new life together"

@DaisyBride: good question. Some people gave us money too and I don't know how to properly word "Thank you for the money, we used it to pay bills". I think I'm just going to write "Thank you for your gift, it was very generous of you!"--or does that sound too generic?

Sigh. This is why mine aren't done yet.

I posted this in another thread.

Thank you so much for your generous gift.  We have so many exciting things planned for our new life together and your thoughtfulness will really help tp get us started in the right direction.  It was wonderful to see you at the wedding and we hope you enjoyed the night as much as we did!

That is my standard message.

Wow, jocelyn, you're good at this! 

We didn't put pictures in our Thank Yous, we had picture cards made from a picture of us at the wedding.

I've been writing thank you notes with my mother standing over my shoulder since I could sign my own name.

I only recently convinced myself that it was ok to handwrite a thank you in normal print rather that all out script/cursive, which I can no longer even do very well.  My attempt to be formal made it look like a seven year old was writing my notes.

My cursive sucks so I'm just writing normal in mine.

We have a picture of us in Vegas on the outside and if I have a funny or cute picture of a guest I might send a copy to them.

We printed out four of our favorite teaser pics and put one in each of the cards. It turned out really well and the people we have heard from liked the pictures.