Thank you note question again!

[galvana]

Hi All
So my wedding is in 51 days! eeeeeeeeeeek
I just had my shower last weekend, people are ordering stuff off our registry and its arriving at my home.
Do I send a thank you now, or as soon as I receive it (this stuff is now wedding gift im guessing as the shower is over).
So - do i send a thank you as soon as I get the gifts, OR wait til after the wedding???
If i send one now, does that mean i have to send a 2nd one after the wedding, thanking them for coming?

 

[kama_s]

Date: 5/21/2009 12:34:49 PM
Author:iloveprincesscuts
If i send one now, does that mean i have to send a 2nd one after the wedding, thanking them for coming?

That''s what I''m doing. Sending a thank-you for gift now, and after wedding it will be thank-you for coming.

 

[galvana]

thank you kama, can you believe how close we are getting?

 

[kama_s]

I know!!!!!!!!!!! I am counting down the days!!! 37 for me, as of today

It''s so wonderful to be sharing such a wonderful moment with all the PS girls!

 

[dcgator]

I am actually just sending a thank you note now for people who send a gift before and saying "looking forward to seeing you at the wedding" or "sorry you can''t come," etc. I wasn''t planning on sending a thank you for coming. Do you have to do this? I am having an OOT wedding, so people kinda have to send their gift versus bringing it. That would be a whole load of thank you''s, ugghh...

 

[galvana]

kama, wholly crap 37 days! wow.. thats awesome!!
dcgator - ya im thinking you do have to send one after - to say thank you for coming.

i know its a lot! im with you -

 

[cocolaw]

Date: 5/21/2009 2:22:53 PM
Author: dcgator
I am actually just sending a thank you note now for people who send a gift before and saying ''looking forward to seeing you at the wedding'' or ''sorry you can''t come,'' etc. I wasn''t planning on sending a thank you for coming. Do you have to do this? I am having an OOT wedding, so people kinda have to send their gift versus bringing it. That would be a whole load of thank you''s, ugghh...

me too exactly! i have found it better for me to open the gift, send a thank you immediately. some of the gifts have been engagement gifts and some wedding gifts--i don''t really know what they are intended for unless the gift giver makes a comment (like last weekend we ran into someone who gave us a gift and we thanked her and she told the other person with us that she had given us an "engagement present")..and i would hate to not send a thank you for an engagement gift until after the wedding!

 

[diamondseeker2006]

Date: 5/21/2009 2:22:53 PM
Author: dcgator
I am actually just sending a thank you note now for people who send a gift before and saying ''looking forward to seeing you at the wedding'' or ''sorry you can''t come,'' etc. I wasn''t planning on sending a thank you for coming. Do you have to do this? I am having an OOT wedding, so people kinda have to send their gift versus bringing it. That would be a whole load of thank you''s, ugghh...

No, you definitely do not have to send two thank-you notes to people who send the wedding gift before the wedding. I think it is a good idea to keep up with the notes and not postpone them all until after the wedding, personally. The only situation where I think two thank-you notes are called for is if someone gives a shower gift and then later gives a wedding gift.

 

[dcgator]

Thanks Coco and Diamondseeker,

I definitely did send two (or more) thank you''s for multiple gifts, such as engagement, bridal shower, etc. But, I am thrilled to know I don''t have to send double the thank you''s for people who already sent their gifts

 

[Italiahaircolor]

I did a couple of things...

If it was a gift from someone I knew wouldn''t be coming, I sent a thank you note immediately.

If it was a gift from someone who was coming, and someone that I was close with...we''d call. Thank them over the phone and tell them we couldn''t wait to see them at the wedding.

If it was a gift from someone coming to the wedding, but not someone I would consider myself close enough to call...I''d send a note letting them know we received and loved the gift...but also another note after wedding thanking them for coming.