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"Paul and I made a deal. I&amp;amp;#8217;d write the thank-you cards for my friends and family (and our mutual friends), and he&amp;amp;#8217;d take care of his side. That way, we&amp;amp;#8217;d send out our thank-yous as soon as possible like the gracious newlyweds we were. This didn&amp;amp;#8217;t go as planned. I thought I&amp;amp;#8217;d do the bulk of the writing on the Sunday after our honeymoon (aka the day before I went back to work). Instead, I spent most of that day on Facebook looking at all the photos my friends posted from our wedding. I started a new job the next day, and that seemed to take up a lot of my time, so thank-you card writing got pushed back even more. I was pretty proud of myself for thinking to add speech bubbles onto a photo of me and Paul from our wedding (do you ladies like them?), so I thought those personalized thank-you cards would motivate me to work on writing them out. Not so much. The only thing that motivated me was when I knew I&amp;amp;#8217;d see wedding guests who&amp;amp;#8217;d no doubt wonder why I hadn&amp;amp;#8217;t yet expressed my gratitude for their generous gifts. Around our six-month anniversary (you don&amp;amp;#8217;t need to tell me what a slacker I was--I already know), everyone on my side had received their thank yous. Paul&amp;amp;#8217;s side, on the other hand, was still thank-you-less. My mom was pretty horrified about this, so she offered to write some on Paul&amp;amp;#8217;s behalf. Even though it&amp;amp;#8217;s fairly tasteless to farm out something as personal as thank-you cards, Paul and I figured it was that much tackier to wait any longer to send thank-yous, so we took my mom up on her suggestion. (Don&amp;amp;#8217;t worry: Paul still wrote out ones for his close friends and family.) Will you learn from my mistakes and get to work on your thank-you cards earlier than we did? How much time do you think is OK to take to write thank-you cards (we had more than 100 separate cards to send out!)? If you were desperate like we were, would you let someone else do the writing? More About Thank-You Cards Another DIY Card Idea 5 Sweet Thank-You Notes Return Address Stamps More Ways to Get Glamour Visit Shopglamour.com for cute stuff starting at just $10! Enter the latest Glamour sweepstakes! Follow us on Twitter Add us to your iGoogle homepage "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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