Creative Thank-You Notes
We all know the importance of thank you notes just as well as we all know the burden that is a stack of fifty blank thank you notes all needing to be personalized, addressed and sent out. It is tedious. But there is no way around it. It really is necessary.
One way to make a dent in your thank you note to-do list is to space out the notes, write a few a day, work on them during your lunch break, during your commute if you take public transit, and making a plan to write three each night after dinner. Another idea I heard on TV this morning is to pick up post cards on your honeymoon and use those as thank you notes. While you do lose a little formality in using a postcard, your guests will know you were thinking of them by taking the time on your honeymoon to get postcards. There is a high level of personalization and it can help make a dent in that looming list of people to be thanked. This idea is especially GREAT for people who gave you gifts to use on the honeymoon or gave monetary gifts.
Emily Post’s rules of etiquette say that a thank you note should be sent within three months of when you receive the gift. It was once said that you had one year to send a gift and one year to send a thank you but that is a wee bit long. Thank you notes should be sent as soon as possible after you receive a gift.
It is important to personalize a thank you card just slightly, be brief and thankful. Click here for some ideas to get you started.
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