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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Formally and traditionally, she is and always will be Mrs. John Smith - unless of course she marries again.[/quote]

No, just no. Use her actual first name and whatever last name she used. Women are not their husbands’ property![/quote]
I'm not my husband's property, but I'm very happy to be  Mrs. HIS FIRST NAME    OUR LAST NAME[/quote]

I would address it to Aunt Bernice Smith, personally. This is a moment to be familiar, not to be weirdly formal.[/quote]

I love that you'd write "Aunt" on the envelope going in the mail. Reminds me of when I tried to send my grandma a card and my parents didn't catch that I addressed it to "Grandma" AND left the apartment number off the address. It came  back to us with a note from a mailman clearly having a trying time, that said, "There  are a LOT of grandmas in this building - which one!?" [/quote]

Of course I'd write aunt on the card. That's who she is to me. I would also give her name - HER name, not her husband's name - and address, so it can reach her.

I address cards to my parents as Mom and Dad Smith, too. I am not suggesting everyone do exactly as I do, but I can't fathom in a hundred million years addressing a relative as Mrs. Husband's Name. I can't imagine addressing anyone that way - I am 49, this seems just wildly old fashioned to me - but especially not someone who is my blood.[/quote]

On the card, or the envelope?

I always use last names on envelopes.  If' I'm sending a birthday card to my 2 year old nephew I write "Larlo Higgenbotham" and "Hildegarde Merriweather" for the return address even though inside I'll write "Pumpkin" and "Love, Auntie Hilda".  [/quote]

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