Our Thank-You Cards

We got our thank you cards through our photography studio, and received them about 3 months after our wedding, mostly because I put off deciding which picture(s) to use. I got started on writing out our 185 Thank you cards Labor Day weekend and had them all out in the mail by the first week of October. I worked on them constantly...I felt like I didn't see Chris for weeks because I was always working away after work. The front of our thank you card had my favorite black and white picture from the church, and the back had a close up of our faces:

Front/Back

Though I suppose "etiquette" dictates I should have them out within three months, I am quite proud and happy with the fact that I got them out just under the 5 month mark. I had hoped to do them in 3...but such is life.

Many people asked me if I was going to have Chris write some of the thank you's or if I was doing them all myself. Truthfully? I wrote them all myself. Honestly, I preferred to write them myself. I have much better handwriting and for as time-consuming as it was, I had a method to my madness and a master plan to accomplishing the task at hand. I didn't mind doing them all myself and this was in no way anything that Chris demanded or expected of me. Many people told me I was crazy...but that's the way that it worked out for us.

So Chris' job was adding all of our return address labels, which I had made at vistaprint:

vistaprint.com

And also adding all the stamps to the envelopes

Source

Easy and mindless - but he still had a small part in helping me out. Getting the last of these thank you's out was a HUGE relief, and that is a project I am more than happy to be done with.


What about you? Did/Will you have your husband write some of your thank-you's? Or, will/did you do them all yourself?

Bridal Shower Thank You's

Now that all my Bridal Shower thank you's are out, I thought I'd share with you the thank you cards I ordered from Snapfish.com. I ordered 4 packs of 12 cards each about 3 weeks before my actual shower, so I'd have them on hand to start writing as soon as possible. I am so glad I did that, because I was able to get all my thank you's out within 2 weeks of my shower!

I played around with customized thank you cards on a bunch of different websites, namely: Shutterfly, Snapfish, and Wedding Paper Divas. This one on Snapfish fit with my picture the best, and was a great price, too! I got 4 sets of 12 thank you cards (48) for $57 with shipping and handling. They came quickly and were very easy to order! They were also a great size, I felt like it was just enough room to write a proper thank you without having a ton of extra space leftover at the end.

Where have you ordered thank you cards from?