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thank you letters? birth announcements?
dont know how it works but can i send a birth announcement instead of thank you letters for my baby showers?
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Re: thank you letters? birth announcements?
A birth announcement and a thank you note are not interchangeable. By sending out a birth announcement you're not automatically thanking the guests at your baby shower for their attendance and their gifts.
I would not find it weird if I'd receive a birth announcement with a small personal thank you note attached (the only exception would be if the shower and the birth are months apart).
um no. One note is thanking someone for bringing a gift and the other is announcing your little one's arrival. They are not the same thing. You can't do one instead of the other.
If you didn't have a shower, would you send thank you notes instead of birth announcements?
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Honestly, I'd rather get a thank-you email than a birth announcement instead of a TY.
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I got one of these. On the announcement itself was a pre-printed line about "thank you for your generosity". That was it as far as the "thank you" went.
I was annoyed. Between that and the fact that they didn't open their gifts at the shower (which at the time I didn't really mind, to be honest, but when coupled w/ this "thank you") - I really did feel like we were invited for the gift.
ETA: If an actual thank you note had been included w/ the announcement, I would'nt have cared. It was the fact that the announcement was being used AS the thank you AND all I got was a pre-printed "thanks for your generosity", I was annoyed.
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This. The least you can do is write out thank you cards to shower your appreciation. If I were to receive a birth announcement in place of a card, I would be extremely annoyed.
I would not.
I would send the Thank you Notes right away after your shower. I'm talking go home and do it right after.
The birth announcements are meant to be after the baby is born. Two separate events and it seems a little lazy to want to do it this way.
Send your thank you notes. Its a courtesy to the guests that took time, money and thought to get your nice gifts for your family.
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Here's my thing about this, and call it weird, but I really do think birth announcements are for people who haven't/can't meet LO until they're much older. We sent them to a bunch of family and friends who live elsewhere from us (aka basically all our family since DH is Army and they live mostly East Coast and we're in Kansas) so that they could have a picture of DS since they couldn't come out to meet him.
I sent separate thank you notes for my shower (even though it was after DS's birth) because I felt weird sending my neighbors a birth announcement for a kid that they held at the shower. But, for Christmas thank you notes, for family that sent a gift, I did write a personal note on the birth announcement (they were postcards and the main reason I had them as postcards was to do this) in line of "Dear Aunt Lulu, Thank you for the lovely (book, outfit, toy, whatever) for DS. It will be very helpful/educational/fun/whatever fits with the gift for us to use. We hope you can meet DS in the future! Love, DH, myself, and DS"
For me, as long as 1. the shower wasn't months ago and you finally sent out thank yous and 2. It said more than "Thanks for the generosity!" I'd be okay with a note with/on a birth announcement
No, thank you notes need to be sent within 1-2 weeks. You will probably be busy with baby and birth annoucements will probably go out way past this.
I'm in agreement with PPs. A personal, hand written thank you note needs to be sent for every gift received and should be sent ASAP after the shower- within 2-3 weeks max unless there is an extenuating circumstance like medical problems.
Announcements can be sent to anyone that you think would like to know about baby's arrival- especially friends and family that are out of town and might not get to meet baby for awhile.
I do think if the timing works out, you could send a thank you note inside your announcement, but only if you can get them in the mail 2-3 weeks after your shower. Just keep in mind that it can take awhile to turn announcements around depending on whether you're waiting for professional pics to come back and if you order them from a place that needs to ship them to you vs. target or costco.
I would say yes as long as they are within a good time frame. My shower was after my daughter was born and I already had the birth announcments in hand before my shower because I wanted to use them as thank you notes as well. I handwrote a personal thank you on the back of each birth announcement and then sent them away a week after my shower (yes this was 4 weeks post partum). So if its a situation like that where time time line work and you can legitimately use them or pair them with the thank you cards, then go for it. If they are months apart, go with seperate ones.
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