Thank You’s: Etiquette Woes
January 16th, 2008 @ 2:56 pm by Mrs. Petunia
These days, with the bridal shower just behind us and less than 2 months to our wedding, gifts are finding their way to our home in all sorts of ways. They found their way to the shower in the most traditional of ways: people brought them, and since I opened them there as part of the festivities, I knew who brought what and why (no question that something was a bridal shower gift).
So writing the thank you note for my lovely glass domed cake plate will be - well, a piece of cake. (By the way, I loved Mrs. Kiwi’s recent post about becoming a grown up! I have to admit that I’m starting to feel like one receiving these gifts. I never thought my cakes/cupcakes needed a glass home before, but now I wonder how I ever left them homeless without it, and walking out of that shower knowing I was the proud owner of things like these did in fact make me feel, for whatever reasons, like more of an adult…).
The Eggplants’ Cards of Thanks
December 11th, 2007 @ 6:42 pm by Mrs. Eggplant
I (finally) ordered our thank you cards! Mr. Eggplant and I were married on October 20th, so it looks like I just may make the two-month etiquette deadline for sending out thank you cards (that is, if I can get myself to sit down and pound them out this week 
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Thank You Part II (With Holiday Cheer!)
November 30th, 2007 @ 1:03 pm by Mrs. Caramel
Currently I have been working on our lovely Thank You cards. Ever since I fell in love with these adorable stamps at Michael’s, I’ve been dying to use them!
The Massacre
November 15th, 2007 @ 6:12 pm by Mrs. Peppermint
I have a confession to make: I had my most bridezilla moment (at least to date… knock on wood!). I suppose it’s good to have gotten it out of the way, but nonetheless, there was a bit of a debacle last weekend…
It all started out very innocently. Mr. Peppermint and I were gocco-ing our Thank You cards. We agreed we wanted to get that out of the way so we’d be ready to fill them out in time. We had talked about a design and settled on what we wanted. Since Palm Springs (and the surrounding areas) is so special to us and he proposed in Joshua Tree National Park, we decided that we’d like a simple drawing of a Joshua Tree on the front. Inside we planned on text that would read “Thank You” in the top left, and “Mr. & Mrs. Peppermint” in the bottom right. Easy. We spent Friday night and Saturday morning making them and were really happy with the results.
Here is our view of Joshua Tree National Forrest:
Zazzle & QOOP: Creating Photo Keepsakes For The Holidays
November 15th, 2007 @ 11:32 am by Mrs. Bell Pepper
We still have a few thank you cards to send out to relatives who live overseas and couldn’t make it to our wedding. Rather than send them a few 4 x 6 photos from our wedding, I wanted to create a keepsake holiday card that would highlight some of our favorite photos.
Thank You Cards
November 14th, 2007 @ 2:43 pm by Mrs. Caramel
For the past few days I’ve been working on our thank you cards. I really wanted to hand write regular cards since no one really seems to do that anymore, but the photo card idea is so convenient! Plus you save stamp money by using post card postage instead of regular postage. I asked our photographer to send me 3 hi-resolution digital images from our wedding and threw it onto photoshop to play around with.
Here’s what I came up with:
Thanks… But… Um…
November 8th, 2007 @ 5:13 pm by Mrs. Firefly
Yesterday I received a card from a very dear friend thanking me for the lovely lasagna pan I got her for her shower. One minor problem … the gift wasn’t from me!
Let me start from the beginning. My friend is getting married in December. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to attend her wedding shower in Washington, DC last month. It was an “Around the House” shower, so we were asked to bring a gift for the kitchen or entertaining around the house, and to also bring a favorite recipe (great idea!).
If I was better organized, I would have sent a gift directly to her bridesmaid hosting the shower, but, alas, by the time I made it to the Macy’s website, I’d have to overnight the present, which was silly. Also, my friend and her fiance will be leaving the country after getting married, so I didn’t think it made sense for her to get too many pots and pans! I did email my Turkey Chili recipe in time and last week (a little late!) sent her a Victoria’s Secret gift card (for …. um … entertaining around the house).
What to do now? Should I email her? What do I say?
Christmas Cards Part II
October 31st, 2007 @ 5:49 pm by Mrs. Snow Pea
Since I used photos of our wedding ceremony for our Thank You notes, I reserved the photos of the reception for the Christmas cards. Mr. Snow Pea’s family in particular would really appreciate a photo of me in my qipao because it’s new to them.
Since the cards I made were 4.25X5.5, I only needed a small photo of us to place on the card.
- Wallets (4) were $1.79/sheet. Approximately 45cents per tiny photo. For 50 photos, that’s $22. For what I needed to do, that was too expensive in my opinion. Also, the white border on wallets would have been a trimming nightmare!
I’ve Been Kissing High School Boys
October 31st, 2007 @ 4:20 pm by Mrs. Gummi Bear
This is my excuse for being vacant, I’m going to claim that my laziness and complete lack of posting is due to Mono*. It’s not because I’m in the post wedding lull. It’s not at all a depression based on having very few photos of the event. It’s because I’m too tired to do anything other than drag my slug-like body down the hall to pour myself a bowl of cocoa puffs…
I had PTWS (just like Mr. Monkey’s description) and had Mr. GB go into the garage and paint our placeholder dining room table’s legs. I say placeholder because we do intend to get something nice, but until we can, I couldn’t look at the plain legs and be satisifed… well, I had PTWS. Ask me now and I’ll sniff dirty socks and think “oh.. not so bad… I can wear these if only I can avoid laundry one more day…”
Thank You Thank You
October 31st, 2007 @ 1:27 pm by Mrs. Snow Pea
…to everyone who voted. It seems #3 was the most popular, but #1 and #2 as some of you said were nice to have too. I ordered all 3 using Shutterfly to test out them out and they all look pretty neat!
