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They went out this past week and most of our guests have already received them. I personally feel that anything over 2 months is too long unless there are extenuating circumstances. I didn't want to wait this long for ours but we opted to do photo cards so we had to wait to get our pictures back, order the cards and then write them out which took about 6-7 weeks.
Mine went out a week after the wedding.. we got married on 10/29 during a freak nor'easter and was without power for a few days so I managed to get out ones for any gift received at the wedding or just after.
I wanted to get mine out as soon as possible anyway, we went on our honeymoon a week later and I knew that I'd be swamped at work and around here. I have some straglers that need to be done to go in Monday's mail, but that's it really.
I went to two weddings this year in May & June and we just got a thank you from one of them. I think within 6-8 weeks is a better time frame than 3 months. Thank you cards are a lost art and are just as important as any other wedding task and should be done as soon as possible.
We are waiting to get the "thank you" photos back so we can get the cards made.
We got our photos back within 3 weeks of the wedding. We did photo thank you cards, that I created via Vistaprint and were able to get them out 4 - 5 weeks after the wedding.
I'm finally just about done... huge weight lifted off my shoulders! :)
I'm about half way done! My goal is to have them completely out by the two month mark (so December 8th). I'm pretty sure I'll be done before then. I try to do a couple every day. And I'm sending them out as I finish them.
They actually went out about three weeks after the wedding. We weren't waiting for photo thank you cards, so I started about a week after the wedding. Everyone said "wow that's the fastest thank you card I have ever received." So I guess I was on the ball. It just felt good to get them over and done with.
i got them out within a month. i didn't do photo cards, but instead knocked them out and put a wedding picture on our return address labels! it was a great compromise since i got to have the pictures included but without any extra wait.
I just ordered my thank you cards the other day so it will still be a few weeks before they go out. It took my photographer over a month to give us 2 pics that we could use for thank you cards. I asked her fairly quickly after the wedding for a couple emailed to me. Needless to say I wasn't too happy that it took 5 weeks to get the pics because I am OCD about sending thank you's back right away. I don't want people to think we aren't grateful!
Oh boy, I haven't started. In fact, I just logged all of our gifts into my OCD spreadsheet this weekend. I gave us a month to not think about them and now we have to get on it! My goal is to get them out before Christmas.
Ya...I suck...mine are only 25% done! :) And I have no excuse really...
I'm about halfway done writing them. I was going good for a few hours and then haven't done any for about a week. Ryan is studying tonight, so I can't practice my guitar...may as well write some more cards!
I have about 10 more to go. I have already heard that some were lost in the mail and folks didn't receive them.
I have also learned that some cards were "lost" at the reception so I've been unable to send thank you's for those :-(
We were on honeymoon for 2 weeks, then I had to order them (visa print I think), wait for them to be delivered, write them out.... So they got sent out maybe 5 weeks after the wedding? I don’t really remember though.
Just curious, did your husbands help you with the thank you's? Mine refused to write any, complaining that his handwriting wasn't good, he didn't know what to say, etc. The closest I got to having him help was when he dictated a couple notes to me for gifts from people I'd never met. I thought those thank you's should have been in his handwriting, but it was clearly not going to happen! Not that I'm bitter or anything 
@78h2o: NO! Which didn’t bother me. What DID bother me was that he insisted I kept the last couple of cards for him to give to the guys at work and the venue. Meaning I had to send a couple of my friends crappy Thank-You cards. And then he never used them. They’re still upstairs! Grrrr!!
@78h2o: nope! but we're long distance so it's not like i coulda thrown a pile at him, though he did offer. we talk on the phone every night so when i was doing them, i made him come up with things to write on a few.
I sent the last ones out on Nov 19! We received about 1/3 of the gifts before the wedding, so I made sure to write those ASAP, even the ones I opened a few days before the wedding. We were on our honeymoon for 3 weeks, and my goal was to get them all out within the next 10 days. I managed to get all of them out by that deadline except for about 8, which were for our parents and close family members (those were the hardest to write!). Oh, and I think I wrote a little over 100 thank yous for the wedding gifts (not including any of the shower thank yous).
I also wrote every single thank you note. Even to people I have never met (husband's family friends that did not attend the wedding but sent a gift). But my handwriting is much better and I write better thank you notes =)
ETA: I got married on October 8. I just realized that my wedding date isn't in my heading!
@78h2o: Absolutely my DH helped. He is enjoying the gifts so he gets to write thank you notes as well. I don't buy the "I don't do that" from my DH. He is no better than me and is fully capable of doing the same things I can.
We sat down with a big ol bottle of wine with tv going in the background and got busy writing them out. I did help him with coming up with some wording when he'd get stuck.
Just about finished! (There's about 5 more that I want DH to do, and I'm waiting on addresses for another 5 or so.) My goal was to have them out within one month; I got about half out then, but pretty much everything will be under 6 weeks! yay!
I tried to make DH do everything from his side, since I did all the shower thank-you's, but he ended up only doing his friends and family members, and I did all of his parents friends, whom neither of us know. (He works a lot more than I do, and is overall much busier.)
I'm just happy that they're done!
I got mine done right after the wedding. thankfully, well not thankfully, i had my appendix out 4 days after our wedding and was off for two weeks so I had tons of free time.
OMG. I am SO happy I'm not alone in this. I have been feeling so guilty! Mine are done I just need to address them and stamp them and send them out!
They were all sent by the end of October, but we have had a few gifts trickle in after that so those thank yous went out within about a week after we got them.
We just got our pictures back so last night I designed and ordered our thank yous!
oh my gosh you guys are making me feel like such a slacker. I've written, um, 8.
In my defense, though, I have been working 2 full time jobs and have spent the last month pregnant and sick and tired. But I have to get them out, soon - I'm hoping the first week or so of January. Ya, I'm the awful bride that'll be late with thank yous. Woops.
I am 2/3 of the way done with them. My goal was to finish this week, but I am sick and sleeping 18+ hours a day, so that isn't going to happen.
it took me about 3 weeks! I did them on the weekends. I wrote them all, the husband did not help. At first he insisted he sign them all, but he was slowing down the process because I would write.. he would read... then sign... then repeat. That did not last long!!
To help motivate the writting phase - I had a rule: no using the gifts until the thank you was written! I broke the thank you writting process into 3 groups - checks first, then cash, then physical gifts. I wanted new furniture for our house - so I was motivated to get the check and cash ones down. They were simple to write because I thanked them for traveling so far, let them know that their gift went to the furniture fund, and how excited I was to buy a new dinning room table and couch for our home. My thank yous were generic beach theme thank yous notes that I bought before the wedding, no fancy pictures.
For Christmas I made up a photo card with the pro wedding pictures and sent it out to everyone who was invited to the wedding, regardless if they sent a gift or not. I guess it's a cross between a wedding annoucement and a holiday card!
As of this very instant, my thank you cards are done. And with 5 days to spare! Woohoo!!!!
I had my thank you notes done the day after we got married.....Please, don't shoot me! :) We came home from the hotel and watched a movie while I wrote thank you cards, addressed them and all that stuff, then I had to wait a week until my special stamps came from stamps.com so I could mail them out. I got a lot of compliments from friends and family about being so on top of it.
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So where is everyone on their thank you cards? I've read differing things for thank-you etiquette timing. Some say to send them no more than 1 month after the wedding, and some places say you have 3 months, but I haven't heard anything over 3 months, so that seems to be the max for etiquette purposes.
Where are you with your thank-yous?