Thankyou cards

I would wait until after your honeymoon so option 1, i certainly would not expect a Thank you card from a couple if i knew that they were going straight off on honeymoon!

As people will know you are on honeymoon, i would say wait until you are back. Perfectly acceptable, AJ.

I would also wait until I am back from honeymoon. Personally, as long as I had received a thank you within a month (give or take a day or so due to Royal Mail), I would be happy.

Plus AJ, you are very dedicated and spent time on your summer holiday making favours; you deserve a couple of weeks off!

I dunno... what else are we meant to be doing for 2 weeks if we aren't out sightseeing...?

I would also wait until I am back from honeymoon?

Thank you card should be given to the guest.Then only the guest impress and bless you .My suggestion is it's your choice.

Really want us to answer that one AJ ? it IS your honeymoon after all......

i agree- wait until you come home- but aslong as you give your thank you cards out within a few weeks then thats fine ?

I'd wait until you got back from honeymoon.

I thought you didnt even agree with thank you cards? You've changed your tune! ; 0 )

I'm still not convinced personally myself, but as my b2b wants them, and we can produce them fairly simply ourselves at little cost, I'm happy to run with it. I wouldn't want to be spending hundreds of pounds on them but I reckon we can get these out for less than 30p each including postage - and, of course, it's not a "per person" thankyou card either that is a big help too.

Just means one of us gets writing cramp and one of us gets a sore tongue from the stamps. I'm sure we'll cope, we have 2 weeks to recover...

It really isnt that much of a hardship and it is very much appreciated by guests that have gone to the expense of giving you a present. It's just good manners.

I think the norm is within 2-3 months of the wedding, so that is plenty of time.

Ours went out a little later than I wanted (6 weeks after the wedding) but that was because we had issues with the photographs.

I would never not send them though, that is just rude.

We sent ours about 3 weeks after the wedding. To be quite honest after the wedding was over I was quite glad not to have to organise anymore and wanted a break so we slowly wrote them in our spare time and Bobs your Uncle, Fanny's your Aunt ?

We have been married for 6 weeks now and still waiting on our professional pics! So i think by the time we have had them made, written and posted it will be over 2 months. It is probably longer than I would have wanted but it cant be helped.

I agree, I think it is rude not to thank people for their presents.

We're still waiting for our professional pics too, so haven't done anything about them yet - we've been married 4 weeks. So hopefully your time frame is fine! I wouldn't consider not sending them though, that would be the height of rudeness.

Would also like to add that I think it would be best to make the cards personal, i.e. write a little thank you message in each one. I have never received a generic thank-you card before, but it sounds impersonal and almost as bad as not sending one at all.

They are personal - maybe I didn't explain it properly. What I'm talking about printing on the left inside is information about our website to tell people to go there and read the reports, see pictures/videos etc and also about the photographer's website to see our official album of photos if they would like to order prints. The right hand side inside just says "Thank you" in big letters at the top then there's a big space for us to say thank you for the toaster and it was great to see you, or whatever.

The only "generic" thing is the cover photo and text as above - the actual 'thank you' for whatever will be handwritten.

I would go with option 1, less hassle and slower way. People will understand you're on honeymoon and caught up in your little love bubble after the wedding. Anyone who's offended by not immediately receiving a thank you card is a bit of a spoon.

I got told off when I suggested we take our thank you cards to write them whilst on Honeymoon, by both my mum and OH! So we'll get ours out about 3 weeks after the wedding hopefully. x

We got married three weeks ago and were still waiting on our professional photos so ours won't be for another couple of weeks. No way would I have done them on our honeymoon!