wedding Stationary - what else do I need/write in thank yous...

Hi Aimz

In terms of stationary on the actual wedding day, we did our own order of services (my hubby French so they were ridiculously long with translations included) but we had made for us:-

1. Table names;

2. Menus;

3. Table plan;

We also had translation cards with silly statements in French and English on them but that was because half the guests spoke a different language.

For thank yous, we just went to paperchase and bought packs of blank thank you cards. I somehow think a thank you card should be handwritten, so you can make it really personal and thank the guest for their specific guest, or anything else. I had many comments on our thank you cards that they were really personal notes/thoughtful etc.

Plus it's cheaper!

Like Clare, we're going to buy some blank cards and hand write them so we can be personal with our thank yous. In addition to the menus and table plans, were you going to have an order of ceremony/order of day printed? (I'm making all of ours)

Yea you're both very correct about the personalised hand written thank you...

I think I'll ask my stationary lady to send me blank ones and I'll write all of my own :-)

Order of Ceremony - we're having a very short civil ceremony so I don't think we're going to bother with those..

But yes! We forgot table names/numbers!!! Need those!!

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The thank you cards I have had in the past have been handwritten and made a specific reference to the gift I/we gave which I always thought was a lovely touch. One of the couples did their's by uploading a photo of them on honeymoon to Funky Pidgeon/Moonpig which I thought was nice too.

Afraid I've not really thought massively about the stationary aspect yet!

it might be nice (if you have budget) to do a nice order of the day. Especially if all in one venue, it's nice for people to know how the day might pan out...plus the older guests (and some of the young ones!) like to keep them as momentos

Obviously not a necessity but it could be a nice to have ?

Could you not just get blank thank you cards so you can write the messages after the wedding? Then you can comment on what they did that you are thanking them for. It baffles me when people are bale to write the cards before the wedding as you don't know what they will do/say/give you.

We had blank thank you cards. For guests who gave a gift our message thanked them for their generous gift. For those that didn't we thanked them for sharing our day with us and helping us to create some wonderful memories.

I too think that thank you cards should be handwritten. Yes, it might take longer to write and send them but in my opinion they mean so much more. We recently went to a wedding and received a pre-printed thank you card "Thank you for your kind gift" - I was not impressed at all!

Totally agree about the handwritten - thank you all for sharing your thoughts on that...

I never thought about writing them all, I thought about printing an then adding a little comment but totally agree - they should be 100% personalised!!

However - Any thank you would be nice....I went to a wedding in October and still havent had a "thank you" surely they should have been sent out by now? I plan on sending mine out the week I get back from Honeymoon which is 2-3 weeks after the wedding...

So order of ceremony....Would I just do a few to scatter on chairs? The last wedding I went to we did all feel a little like hmmmm what are we waiting for now...I've already got tears of joy and confetti pouches on chairs so don't wanna over do it!!

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Weddings I have been to have usually had the OOS handed out by the ushers at the entrance to the church. I'm not sure about civil ceremonies though, as I've only been to a handful.

I do think it's poor form not to send thanks yous, but thinking about it, I have only had the one thank you out of 5 weddings. One of them was OH's best man and wife! Ah well!

My best friend had some really lovely cards made up from photobox.com. She used her favourite picture of them and had that on the front. Inside at the bottom she had printed.. Thank you from mr and mrs x this gave her plenty of room to handwrite a personal note. They were really lovely, personal and not very expensive.

I love the idea of putting a photo along with them :-) espesh as i'm asking for honeymoon contributions people will like photos of our honeymoon I'd think :-)

I think its really poor form not to send thank you's out...People make efforts to attend your big day so I could never imagine not thanking people....I'm not saying its right but even a text message!!!!

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