The proper way to write a polite thankyou note?

Do any of you have suggestions on the proper way to write a good thankyou note? We're getting married at the end of the month- and i just had my bridal shower on friday night. I'd like to go ahead and mail out thankyou notes to everyone who came just as a way to let them know how much i appreciate their kindness. I picked up some thankyou cards tonight at the store and plan to write them this week and have them in the mail as soon as possible.

I'm also wanting to write a group thankyou note to my coworkers as well. Any ideas? Would it be ok to write one note to all of them on the same card and post it in the lounge for them to see? Any ideas? Thanks everyone!!!

I got married last year. Most of my notes for people I didn't know had the same format. Unless I had something funny to say to family, they mostly went like this:

Dear _______,
Thank you so much for the _______. I know we will get a lot of use out of it. We really appreciate your thoughtfullness during this exciting time in our lives.

Sincerely,
_______

I usually added a sentence or two in there about whatever it was I was thanking them for. You don't have to say a whole lot, especially if you don't know them.

Good luck!

Our office always has one thank you note for everyone and its posted in our break room.

Originally Posted by Beck4582

I got married last year. Most of my notes for people I didn't know had the same format. Unless I had something funny to say to family, they mostly went like this:

Dear _______,
Thank you so much for the _______. I know we will get a lot of use out of it. We really appreciate your thoughtfullness during this exciting time in our lives.

Sincerely,
_______

I usually added a sentence or two in there about whatever it was I was thanking them for. You don't have to say a whole lot, especially if you don't know them.

Good luck!

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That's pretty much what I did.
Nikki just do a google search. There are tons of sites out there with ideas. I found a few I would pull from. Sometimes I combined two ideas in one.

Nikki, it depends. Did you send out formal invitations? These invitations do not have a response card and the guests need to reply on formal stationary like this:

http://www.thepurplehouse.net/weddin...sewording.html

I actually got invited to one. It was an eye opener.

For my thank you notes, I ordered note cards with my initials on the card and our address together on the back. You have to realize that one side of my DH' s family was in the formal stationary business.

Anyway, things have changed. I would still send a personalized thank you to everyone. Thank them for coming and enjoying your day. If they just sent a gift, name the gift and say you missed them. I actually prepared the thank you notes for the persons who could not attend but already sent their gifts before the wedding.

I am not up to speed on email responses. Having married a man with a formal upbringing, this is my

Email responses are too informal for this. The template provided by Beck4582 is a good one to start. Generally, I made the point of noting what they gave me and anything else personal I could think of. A handwritten thank you note is appreciated by any recipient.