Is this acceptable or a big faux pas these days? Is it bad that the couple didn't write a hand written, specific thank you card to each attendee? Is it common now to receive mass printed thank you cards with the same message to everyone from newly weds? |
I wouldn’t think twice about this. Why do you need them to hand write a thank you? |
How old are you, PP? |
I'm 48 so not exactly a youngun, and this would not bother me at all. I usually send something off the registry combined with a check, so it's not like I put a lot of time and effort into the act of giving and need effusive, specific thanks. |
Those thank you notes were the band of my existence after our wedding. Maybe it’s not ideal, but I would let it go and assume the bride is doing the best she can at the moment. |
As a sign of actual gratitude, not a cookie cutter mass print you order online and send out just so you can check off the box. |
It’s just the way thinks are. It’s totally unacceptable, and if I received this I would think they were ill raised. |
You're a scorekeeper I see who needs to be validated personally for every act of gift giving. It's a shame you let the use of technology and convenience convince you that people aren't really grateful. |
It makes me personally cringe a little, but you know what? Times change. Protocols and what is acceptable change. I am married to a man from a different country/culture who had never even heard of thank you cards and thinks they are weird. |
37. No one “owes” me anything, including a highly effusive handwritten thank you note. I have 99 problems and this ain’t one of them. |
You're just lazy. |
NP here and 41. +1 at scorekeepers. |
It wouldn't bother me. |
No, she’s doing the least she can. And why is it all on her? Presumably there’s another party to this marriage who is also literate. I find it tragic that this generation finds it so grueling to say thank you. |
I get it that hand written thank you notes take time, but mass printed ones serve absolutely no purpose except I guess to let the giver know their gift was actually received.
I have sent plenty of gifts to young married couples and never gotten a thank you of any kind. It didn't bother me particularly except that I was left to wonder if the hand off from the registry was botched. |