Thank you card. A year late?

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We got married last august (it's our first wedding anniversary this month:-), and wow.. our wedding was beautiful, and thank g-d our marriage is too...
We live in Israel. However, we've got lot's of family (cousins, uncles and aunts) in the US who sent us checks for out wedding. My problem is we did not send thank you notes. My husband 
doesn't care about that so much, and I guess he feels it's my job to take care of. The problem is that I am very busy - we both work 9 hours a day+live out of town, 
we leave our house at 7am and come back around 7pm, and I'm just to tired and busy at home to start dealing with thank you cards. I guess this is just 
and excuse. But I am aware that thank you notes are a very important thing in the American mentality, and I do want to express our gratitude.
What should I do? I am embarrassed to send out cards a year late? What do you think?
Also, if you do think I should still send out cards can you please give me ideas how to write thank you for a check gift?

Anonymous · Accepted Answer

it's never too late. always always, always send a thank you card.  it's never late to say thank you for any & every occassions.  and i think it is very important for every culture.  should consider these people took the time to send you money, and "i was busy because i work 9 hours a day" is a bit lame of an excuse....  

i think you should say: thank you for the gift. let them know you are the happy cinderella. and let them know that how you enjoyed the gift or how you used the gift.  let them know that you cherish the support and best wishes and appreciate the blessing they gave you.

phrogster1 · Answer

Yes, you should still acknowledge you received their gift, even if it is a year late.  Do you have email addresses because that is an acceptable way to send thank you notes?  
You could include a note saying how the first year of married life has been so busy.  Don't mention the amount the check was for, just say thanks for the money or thanks for the check and then share how it was used.  
I have a nephew who has never sent a thank you note once he moved away from home.  He is now married and we never received a thank you note for the wedding gift - the wedding was two years ago.  I have decided that unless I am there to see him open the gift, so that I know he received it, I will no longer send him anything other than a greeting card.

livelyblueswimmer · Answer

regarding a card: you could set one up on your computer, a photo of you in your new apartment, with the printed message Thank You for your wedding gift, print off twenty or however many, and address them by hand(Dear Mike and Alice) and sign them at the bottom( love from Irving and Elisheba).One of you can address the card, and the other one sign for both.
Include with this a typeset list of names under the heading
"Thank you for your monetary contribution" (without the actual amount).
And underneath, a list of what you have bought - for example
2 sets of bed sheets
One dozen champagne glasses
Hotel tariff for honeymoon
People are happy to find out, however late, that they have done the right thing by their gift to you.

Flying_James · Answer

Better late that never.  Say whatever is in your heart, if someone is offened, their loss.

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