Sending Thank You Notes to Wedding Guests

After the wedding is over and the honeymoon is almost done, you will have to pause and think about the people who showed up to your wedding day.
 
Thinking of those people will never be sufficient. Adhering to wedding etiquettes, you should appreciate them and show your appreciation through a material token. 

That is where the thank you notes come into the picture. Wedding experts and society or lifestyle gurus advise married couples to send out tokens of appreciation or simple thank you notes to their wedding guests at least two weeks after the event.

Thank you notes should or must be sent especially for those friends or guests who showed up with wedding gifts. Wedding etiquette will also have you send thank you notes to people who were not able to come to the wedding, but sent in their gifts.

To outdo wedding etiquettes, it would be better if the couple will send out personalized thank you notes.

It is not against wedding etiquettes to buy thank you note templates, but be sure to personalize it by adding your personal hand written notes of appreciation. Some couples also prepare the thank you notes along with wedding invitations to save time and money.

When you opt to do this, just be sure you order enough or plenty of extra copies to so you will never run out in case too many people show up.

Etiquette when writing thank you notes

A couple of do’s and dont's will help you get away from troubles that may arise in writing wedding thank you notes. It is not enough that you show up efforts to sincerely thank and appreciate the presence and gifts accorded to your romantic wedding. 

Wedding etiquettes have it that thank you notes should be written appropriately. Even the paper used for the notes should be written on white or ivory-colored paper. Some couples prefer to have their thank you notes monogrammed, but others feel it's just okay if everything is handwritten. 

Here are some guidelines that adhere to wedding etiquettes when it comes to sending out thank you notes:

• Remember to send thank you notes to relatives and people who coordinated showers and parties for the both of you. It would be okay if you thank them for the efforts within the same card sent to them for their gifts. 
• Wedding etiquettes suggest that you appreciate each gift you have received. 
• Advanced wedding gifts or gifts that arrived before the wedding you must be immediately responded to so you will never have the chance to forget to send out thank you notes for them. 
• It might be time and money saving, but it is not advisable to send out preprinted thank you notes. Sending preprinted cards will give the person receiving the thank you note the impression that his or her effort or gift was not totally appreciated. 
• Personalize your thank you note by handwriting the message. Warm but short thank you notes are better than longer but non-personalized or insincere notes. 
• Write the thank you note message in blue or black ink. It is for the simple reason that the colors are far more readable. 
• It is in accordance to proper wedding etiquettes that you put or include your new return address on every thank you note you have sent. The recipients will greatly appreciate the gesture if he or she is informed or posted of your new and correct address (if you are moving).
• Never start the thank you note with the pronoun “I.” To create a good and lasting impression use “You” as often throughout the note instead of “I” or “me.”