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Kari
Master May 2020

How many guests gave gifts long after the wedding?

Kari, on June 25, 2021 at 3:05 PM Posted in Etiquette and Advice 0 5

My husband and I legally married last year and had our wedding celebration a couple of weeks ago. We received wedding gifts and/or cards from fewer than half of our wedding guests. I know traditionally guests have had up to one year to give a gift, but the current custom is within a few months since things just don't take as long as they used to.

I am planning to order wedding specific thank you cards with a photograph from our wedding, but I don't know how many to order. I could always order the correct amount for the number of gifts we have currently received and then just supplement any late gifts with generic thank you cards. I could also wait until the three-month mark to send out thank yous, but that seems late to me and I'd prefer not to delay.

We already sent thank yous for all the gifts we received last year. Last year I just did generic cards and just put a wallet photo from our wedding inside, but I have a print credit from our stationary company for messing up a product we ordered for the wedding, so I'd really like to use it for our thank yous to make them something more special.
I do not plan on sending thank yous to people just for attending.

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Latest activity by Judith, on June 26, 2021 at 12:49 PM
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    Super December 2020
    Anais ·
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    I think the latest gift we got was a month after the wedding.
    And that person had told us their gift was delayed. I just think you should get the thank you cards for the number of gifts you’ve received already and any stragglers can get random thank you cards.
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  • Kari
    Master May 2020
    Kari ·
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    Thanks Anais! That is what I was thinking.

    We still won't get our full set of high res wedding photos from our photographers for at least another few weeks (turnaround is typically 6-8 weeks after the wedding) so I imagine we'd get most gifts by then and have a pretty accurate number of thank yous to order.

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  • Hanna
    VIP June 2019
    Hanna ·
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    I think the latest after the wedding we received a gift was 2 weeks. We received the large majority of our gifts before the wedding. This was pre-Covid though if that makes a difference

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    Master January 2019
    Cassidy ·
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    We got a check after the wedding. It was maybe 2-3 months after when we saw them to go out to eat.
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    Judith ·
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    We got most before the wedding. Half of the 40+ later ones were from far away- Finland, Denmark, Greenland, Italy. All but 1 came between the time we got home from traveling after the wedding, and 6 weeks later, a total of 2 months after the wedding. Still not a huge time after.
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