With all the excitement of the wedding and the honeymoon it can be all to easy to get carried away. Do not forget those who helped you through your wedding day, your close attendants and guests and remember to thank them. Here are a few easy tips for thanking your wedding guests in an appropriate way.

Firstly, while traditional wedding etiquette stipulates that you can send a thank you card up to a month after your wedding, why wait? True you need time to recover from the big day and head off on your honeymoon but unless you are planning on going on a really long trip for your wedding, get your thank you notes sent as soon as possible. Not only is it common courtesy, but also once it has been done you need no longer think about it and can get on with the rest of your life, happily married.

Sending thank you cards can take some time, particularly if you had a big wedding. Divide the work between bride and groom and the job will get completed much easier. Traditional etiquette specifies that the bride sends out the tank you cards but in this day and age it may be more appropriate for you both to write them. Perhaps the simplest way to divide the task is for the bride to write to her guests and the groom to write to his guests; although technically now you are married they are both your guests.

Try to be personal but do not go overboard. No one wants to receive a generic thank you card that looks a lot like it was simply copied and pasted. Throw in a mention of the gift that your guest gave you but there is no need to go to town and make each card overly personal, it will simply take too much time. Remember to give a personal thank you to each and every one of your close attendants however. Good rules of thumb are that if they were there for you and helped out during wedding planning, or if you are particularly close to them, then make your thank you card personal. If they were just a guest at your wedding then a standard thank you will suffice.

Finally, after you have written your thank you cards you will want to check that you have not missed anyone off your list. Sending everyone but a few people a thank you can leave them feeling unappreciated and left out and cause a wide range of social problems for you. Your wedding invitation list will be crucial. Check the names on every thank you card against the names of people that received an invitation. This way you will more than likely not forget anyone. It may be a good idea to check people off the list as you are writing your thank you cards and then to double-check by going through the list again after all the thank you cards have been written.

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