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Originally Posted by PHECKLER  The last few showers (bridal and baby) that I have attened, there have been a pile of envelopes when you sign in and you are supposed to fill out your address on them for the thank you notes! Pleeeeese you found my address ok when you sent me the darn invitation, you can find it again to send the thank you note.
I am giving a baby shower in a couple of weeks and I just addressed the thank you notes when I addressed the invitations for the mom to be. I even made some cute computer generated return address stickers with storks on them and attached them to the envelopes. I will also give her a book of stamps to use.
All she needs to do is handwrite a note on the inside. |
Wow! That's pretty bad! I guess you at least you knew that thank you notes would even be sent though!
There was a baby shower at my office a few years ago for a coworker. It was a potluck lunch and the lady organizing it made invitations on the computer (probably at the office) that said, "Please bring a gift and something to eat." I was stunned! I swore I was going to send that invitation in to Miss Manners, but never got around to it! In this case, the mom-to-be was embarassed, but I agree that they're often in on quite a bit of the planning.
I was also peeved to be invited to a baby shower this year that was several states away and was for a friend of a friend. This lady pretty much had everyone she'd ever met on her guest list. Furthermore, if I live 400 miles away from you and you don't invite me to your shower, I won't have hurt feelings. If you do invite me, I'll assume you know I won't come but you still want a gift. I went ahead and sent a gift for this one and later heard that the mom had complained that not enought people bought off her registry!