Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Good advice Thank You for the Memories
Posted by Nicki Wood on Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 8:31 AM
Digging around in one of the many, many boxes in our basement saved by Big Fella, I came across a box of wedding invitations and thank-you notes from the 1950s. These little notes are tiny -- just three and a half inches across. Both are regret notes ("Miss Cathryn Collins regrets that she is unable...."), the kind that mom would be proud to know you wrote. The kind people wrote for a century.
But we don't send them anymore because every paper invitation except wedding invitations includes a phone number for sending regrets. Of course, even that procedure seems quaint after the digital revolution. It's rare now to receive a hard copy invitation -- everything is an e-vite. So you send an e-ply.
Here's the thing: Do you also send an e-thank you? Somehow that doesn't seem like enough thanks sometimes. Is a hard thank-you note such an extravagance these days that you save them for the most heartfelt thanks?
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I am a fan of the old fashioned USPS system and stationary in general, so I always send paper Thank Yous. An e-thanks doesn't carry the same weight as a real card and I think I'd be offended if I ever received one.
The way I see it, you should put at least as much effort into a thank you note as the person put into your gift, dinner, or whatever.
