Some of the best advice I got was to address the thank you notes at the same time you address your invitations; you never have to compile your list of addresses more than once and it makes starting the darn things a bit less intimidating knowing you already have them all addressed. Even if some of your guests don't come to the wedding, they usually send a gift anyway; and if you address some you don't use, what have you lost? a few cheap envelopes, instead of hours trying to locate that one sticky note your honey-bunch brought home from work 3 months ago. I enlisted the help of my bridesmaids for addressing - two on invitations, paired up with two on thank-yous to make the process less daunting and whole lot more fun. (Wonder if I could get them to come back and write the notes too...) Oh yeah, if you have the forethought, ask your maids to do this for non-wedding guests they invite to showers too!

Use a glue stick to seal the envelopes! It's cheap, and a lot cleaner than a wet sponge...plus your tongue will thank you!

My mom has always done this and it worked super for our wedding gifts. When you are opening gifts, take the card that came with it and write on the back of the card what the gift was. That way you have it written and you have it on the card telling you who it came from. It has been a snap getting my thank-you cards done, using the back of the card as a reference.

We learned as we were cashing our wedding checks at our bank that if the check is written out to Ryan AND Sandy Johnson, both our signatures needed to be on the back of the checks, but if they wrote Ryan OR Sandy Johnson then only one of our signatures were needed (whoever was cashing the check). Since this was two days after our wedding, the bank still had my maiden name under my account but the checks had my married name and all checks had AND. Therefore, my husband had to sign every check and I had to write two signatures on each check (my married name and my maiden name). My hand hurt and I learned to always write OR on wedding checks to newlyweds. Just thought this was interesting!

We used bulk sms messaging to notify and remind guests of the wedding, so we used it as well as cute store-bought thank you cards. Cheap and in-your-face asap!

Purchased cute return address labels (with our married names) from etsy.com and used them to seal the envelopes. I coordinated the envelopes/cards and labels

Hmm, wish i had read some of the label ideas BEFORE my wedding! However, my husband did write down the gift inside each card. I have a stack of cards by our couch, and try to write a few each night. It really hasn't been as bad as I thought it would. We only have 2 gifts without cards.

how long after the wedding should thank you's go out?