Before our wedding, my fiance and I had several bridal showers which were thrown for us. They were all really nice, very thoughtful and a lot of fun, but I was so busy with my wedding planning, that I didn’t really think about the bridal shower thank you cards for the different bridal showers. I was planning the wedding all by myself, while trying to keep up with a full time job and trying to buy a house with my fiance to move into after the wedding. Probably too much on my plate at one time, but then again, hindsight is always 20/20.
Luckily, I did have the presence of mind to keep detailed lists about who gave what. I also managed to keep all of the gifts and lists together so that they wouldn’t get lost during everything that was going on. So I at least had that much, but I did not send out any bridal shower thank you cards for the gifts from the bridal showers until after the wedding, honeymoon, and move was over, and I found myself facing some problems. Here are some tips to keep it from happening to you.
Keep Excellent Notes
You’ll remember that one of the Duties of the Maid of Honor is to attend the bridal showers and keep a neat and detailed list of who gave each gift. Take the time between opening each gift to make sure your maid of honor has all the information she needs so that your thank you cards for each gift can be correct. This solves a lot of embarrassment and/or hard feelings later.
Complete your Thank You Cards ASAP
If at all possible, I would advise getting your thank you cards done as soon as possible after each bridal shower, say within a week of the shower. That way all of the gifts and who gave them are still fresh in your mind. Not only that, but it saves a lot of time later when you are working on the thank you cards for gifts and cards brought to your wedding. You may think that these cards are something you can put off until a little bit later, but if you choose to do that, you’ll be bogged down later.
One of the biggest problems I had with putting off my bridal shower thank you cards is that some people were on multiple lists, and I didn’t catch it before the card was already written and in the mail. You’ll find if you wait to do your bridal shower thank you cards, you will face many of the same problems that I did, being bogged down by multiple lists, the sheer number of cards to complete, and making mistakes in my bridal shower thank you cards from people being on multiple lists. You can easily solve these issues by doing your bridal shower thank you cards as soon as you can after each event. You’ll be glad that you did.
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