They say you have a year to give a gift for a wedding, but that you should send Thank You’s within a month.  What about Thank you notes for your vendors?  Is prompt payment and a tip enough?  We don’t think so, but unfortunately we’ve left our vendors un-thanked for almost six months.  I was great about sending our guests thank you notes within 2-3 weeks of the wedding.  For gifts received later, I usually sent the thank you card out the day we got the gift in the mail.  We tracked all our gifts and when thank you notes were sent through the WeddingWire feature.  But because I was so focused on thanking those that gave us something, our vendors got the short end of the stick.  Then I was sending thank you notes for friends helping us move, for housewarming gifts, etc.  I kept putting the vendor thank you notes off.

I did give them all rave reviews on WeddingWire, and thanked them in that way, but I’m a big proponent of handwritten cards.

Well, the new year is the limit for me.  I plan to send all our excellent vendors thank you cards when I send out my Christmas cards, and I’m including a photo of the area of the wedding they helped with. This way, they can hopefully use not only our thank you notes in their portfolios, but also pictures of their goods and services in use.   I have photos of our beautiful flowers for our florist, photos of my hair being done (and the finished product) for my stylist, a great photo of our DJ in action, and more.  Hopefully they enjoy this extra touch and aren’t annoyed that the note came 6 months after the wedding!

What did you do to thank your vendors?