What to write in a wedding Thank-You card?

Question

Our wedding is all over. We are ordering thank you cards. We would like to have 'printed' thank you cards. We need to have something generic for everyone. (Six lines maximum).

After the generic thank you, we plan on writing a 'special' note to the individual.

Please help me with the generic thank you. I have no idea where to start.

Additional Details: The 'Thank-You' cards come with FREE six lines of writing. So, why not use it?

Answer 1

Thank You notes are supposed to be extremely personal. Handwritten and all with the whole thank you of what they got and how you are going to use and why you like it kind of thing. So printing a thank you kind of defeits the purpose. But I agree totallywith you about if the ink is free why not use it. But I am going to tell you what I would do and why. I would go with a quote or something. Like a quote about weddings, or love, or your future as a family, or a scripture from the Bible. I wouldn't do a generic thank you. Also thank you notes are generally small cards with not much room to write anyway. Adding something too long will definitely take away the "special" feeling of a thank you note. That's just my opinion. Good Luck with it though!

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Answer 2

Okay, you can't use generic thank-you cards for wedding gifts. That's generally considered to be the ultimate in tacky. If you're going to write a "special" note anyway, why bother getting anything printed? And just because the printing is free doesn't matter, it still won't look good and it will upset people. If you don't believe me, go to this site and see how upset people get if they receive preprinted thank-yous, or even handwritten thank-yous that all say something generic (like "thank you for your gift").

Answer 3

Thank you notes can be overwhelming. Especially when you have to write 100 of them. I would NOT get pre-printed Thank You notes, it's tacky. You and your wife can each write 5 a piece, every night. That's what my hubby and I did. Also, write a little cheat sheet with common things you can say in each Thank You Note. And write BIG to take up space.

Here is our Thank you note cheat sheet:

Dear ____________,
(Spouse) & I truly enjoyed seeing you at our wedding. It meant so much to both of us that you could share in our special day. Thank you so much for the ____________. It will be of great use to us in our new home. Hopefully we can all get together again soon. Thank you again.
Sincerely OR Love,
_________________

Answer 4

I wouldn't waste money on printed 'generic' thank you cards, and then later send out special ones. Your guests might think 'oh nice, a generic thank you.' which is later followed by a 'nice' one, they might think someone put you up to that. Its really easy to write simple, yet meaningful thank you's in a short time. I had to write about 85 thank you's and it only took me a few days, of doing them 'here and there.' I wrote to the person how glad I was to see them on our special day and how I A. appreciated their monetary gift, or B. their gift of a 'coffee grinder.' Its nice to mention in the thank you, what exactly the gift is. Good luck.

Answer 5

Something like, "We were overjoyed that you could share our special day with us. Our wedding day was beautiful and special because of the presence of our friends & family."

Then for the individual "special" note, you'd mention the gift they gave you and tell how useful it has been or how it fit in so well with your decor.

Having six lines doesn't mean you HAVE to use them. Be careful not to overdo it.

Answer 6

If the thank you cards come with free wording I would suggest a simple:
thank you for sharing our day
Your presence meant alot to us
Bride & Groom
Date

I purchased plain thank you cards, and had clear stickers printed with that to put on the back of the card. Of course I wrote personal notes for each card.

hope this helps....................

Answer 7

No generic Thank you's. That is just not polite, nor approppriate, actually is rude (not to mention in poor taste). The idea behind a thank you card is to PERSONALIZE the greeting and to thank your guests individually.

Get BLANK thank you cards, handwrite them ALL with your gift and guest list on hand.

Mention their particular gift and tell them how much you liked it. If you have already used it, mention it and be as specific as possible. If cash was received, thank them for the generosity and tell them how much that is going to help your new household (regardless of the amount given).

Also, thank your guests for their presence and how much it meant for you to have the priviledge of their company on your special day.

Yes, it' stime consumming and is a pain in the neck, but is the gracious thing to do.

When it comes to Thank you cards, yo cannot afford to be TACKY and rude, .....but I guess to each its own.

Good luck

Answer 8

Free or not, you don't need a generic thank you. You should just write a personal individual note to each person who gave you a gift.

Answer 9

You really don't have to have anything very long "pre"printed if you're going to add your own message....if you're just wanting something preprinted for the sake of saving your writing hand a bit, something as basic as --
"Thank you so much for sharing our special day, it meant so much to both of us." would be just fine.
Then you would just simply add your hand-written message to reflect something along the lines of
"And thank you so much for the <..."item/monetary gift"..>. " and then maybe something a bit more personal to each recipient.

Hope maybe this helped a little?

Answer 10

If you're going to write a personal note (which is what you should do) then why pay to have something printed?