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While I’m still mulling over the possibility of shelling out the big bucks for letterpress invites*, I’ve decided that other stationery items—like Thank You cards—are less of a priority for me. And as much as I’d love to have personalized Thank You cards, even the digital offset ones on Wedding Paper Divas cost around $1.63 each. Of course, I could just DIY these, but … I’m too lazy? Luckily for me, I found the most adorable Thank You cards online the other day. Behold! Affordable, adorable letterpress Thank You cards from Target:
Not too shabby, eh? And at around $0.25 a piece, a great deal if I say so myself. I ordered 4 boxes, and I figure I could always dress them up with stamps if they look too plain. Sure, they won’t match our invitations, but I don’t think that’s really necessary. The most important part about Thank You cards is, in my opinion, sending them out promptly after receiving gifts. What about you? Will your thank you cards match the rest of your invitations, or are you switching things up like me?
*BM Lauren sent me this compelling note trying to talk me out of letterpress invites.
To talk yourself out of letterpress, just think about what else you could buy with the money you’d need for that added luxury! Added luxury that A) most people won’t even notice and B) isn’t required for a beautiful invitation!
The cost/benefit ratio just doesn’t pan out for letterpress. Weddings are extravagently expensive enough as it is! You have to take yourself out of the wedding mindset where you’re more likely to spend $$ with abandon. If you weren’t planning a wedding, would you really spend a thousand bucks on stationery?
She brought up some very good points; however, I’m afraid it’ll take more than one comment to break up this love affair.
Great find! I don’t think ours will match our invitation at all, so no worries 
I think “matchy-matchy” isn’t necessary at all. You’ve got a theme–it will all go together.
And as a person on a very tight budget, I agree with your BM. It’s not worth it. Buy more cake instead. 
I used those cards from target for my Thank you’s. They didn’t match my invites other than the fact both were cream. They are very nice for the money.
I love letterpress too. However, I also cannot justify spending a great deal of money on it. Working in international development, and travelling to developing countries, I know what a huge impact and difference a little amount of anything (money, clothing, shelter, schooling, etc) goes. So I ask myself, should I spend more money than necessary on invitations that will be gratifying at the time, for a little period of time; invitations that people will toss out –OR– would I rather donate that money to those in need and impact positively others?
Regardless of which way you go, it is ultimately your choice – and you could see it as impacting positively small businesses (which also need our support and help too)!
We used those thank you cards obviously, they did not match our invites either. I was happy to find them too!
These are very pretty and look like they would cost MUCH more that $0.25. Great find!
WOW! I’m shocked I came up with a Thank You note design that Target liked so much LOL - I designed and printed up almost identical cards about a year and a half ago… my “You” is just on the same line and is missing the extra flourish.
So if you need the vector for anything extra… lemme know
See, I think letterpress CAN be justified. If I could do it all over again, I’d letterpress the invitation, but nothing else. Flat printing for the rsvp cards and for the envelopes (actually, we used a rubber stamp for the addresses). Maybe that will help with the sticker shock.
We used Studio on Fire and I didn’t think it was expensive.
If you want letterpress invites I highly recommend Alex with Aerialist Press. I ordered my STDs and my invites from her and they came out awesome. She is very friendly and customer-oriented and best of all - - very affordable!! Her website is http://www.theaerialistpress.com
I decided to shell out the money for letterpress and never looked back! My printer was awesome (Mary at Typecast Press in Baltimore), I got exactly what I wanted and I learned a lot along the way. It was such a memorable part of our wedding planning that one of our guests gave us our wedding invitation in a beautiful matching frame that sits in our living room.
In the end, I didn’t care whether or not the guests noticed the invites were letterpressed - I just loved, loved, loved the look and feel of them!
THANK YOU THANK YOU for sharing this! I am using Burgues Script for my invitation suite, so this is a dream (and so affordable). I was going to DIY, but FORGET it!
Michaels dollar spot! It currently has (or recently had) cute cream colored notecards and seals with gold monograms on them. Here I found some cards that are cream with a gold pineapple on the front-simple and elegant-I stocked up and got my thank you notes off the list!
We haven’t chosen our thank you cards yet, but I’d like them to match our invitation suite. We’ll just have to see! Awesome deal for thank you cards though - good find!
I agree with your BM about letterpress. Our invitations and thank you cards won’t match and I’m perfectly okay with that. I think you’re right that the most important thing is to get a prompt thank you out with a heartfelt comment. That means much more than the appearance of the card.
I actually do love these from Target. I thought about designing my own Thank you cards, since I have designed everything else for our wedding, but then it really came down to cost. Do I really want to spend a ton on Thank You cards that people throw out.
I completely agree that sending Thank You cards promptly is the most important thing. We are also including a few pictures from our wedding in the Thank you cards, as a little surprise.
By the way, totally going to Target today to pick up a pack of these.
Unless you’re inviting a serious amt of people, you should be able to letterpress for under $1K! Many will NOT notice, but some in the know will. You have decide on your priorities. You can scrimp in other areas that don’t matter to you. Great find on the “thank you’s” Even making our own and printing them at Kinko’s was too expensive, so on our way out we saw some coordinating boxed damask thank yous and scooped ‘em up. Of course there weren’t enough, so we had to go to 2 more Kinko’s!
I stocked up on thank you cards for FREE when I found these great Hallmark printable 5$ off any purchase coupons (in December 2009). I printed 2 coupons (the max) from each computer and printer I could get a hold of, and went and bought thank you cards in a fall orange color! IDK yet what our invites will even look like, but my thank you cards are cute and free!
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Mrs. Jellyfish, Pleasanton, CA Age and Occupation: 27, Law Student Fiance's Age and Occupation: 26, Air Force Pilot Engagement Date: February 21, 2009 Wedding Date: September 2010 Venue: Casa Real at Ruby Hill Winery About Me: In a nutshell, I’m the most optimistic worrywart you’ll ever meet. My family emigrated from Romania to San Jose, CA when I was 8, and I've been a Nor Cal girl ever since! My fiancé is also a Bay Area native, so it’s funny that we met at UCLA, as college freshmen living on the same floor (go Bruins!). Between his career as an Air Force pilot and my path to becoming a lawyer, our relationship has been anything but typical. We currently live together in Berkeley with our puppy Stinson. In addition to spending time with the loves of my life, I enjoy crafting, attempting complicated recipes, environmental law and non-law school reading (Us Weekly, anyone?). Follow along as I plan an elegant 200-person winery wedding, graduate law school, take the Bar exam, get married and get used to the always unpredictable but never boring life of a military spouse!
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