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CorkClaire82 wrote: »

I went with Vistaprint and I really liked them, Photobox are good too but I found them a bit expensive.

I have the majority of my Thank You cards gone but still a few need to be sent out, I've left himself look after his side and not one has been done (bar the 2-3 I did of mutual friends that I just handed to people). They are a pain but we put photos in the cards and I think people appreciated that and it made up for the complete lateness of doing them, our anniversary is next month like :P

Thank you, I'll look at both of those.
yeah I'm going to put photos in (where i have suitable ones) still waiting on my photographers to send me the last 16 outstanding colour versions I requested then I'll be good to go. But I can get started on most of them anyway, I don't need any of the colour versions for making the cards, only for enclosing in the cards

kildareash

I only started looking into Thank You cards last week. I've been on such a downer since the wedding, I just want to go back to last year and do it all again

Anyway, I think we're going to go with some local printers. I only want a post-card style that I can write a short note on the back of. I've been quoted €70 including envelopes for 120. Just need to do a final count of how many I need and get cracking on actually ordering them!

But local independent printer might be an option?

stargazer 68

kildareash wrote: »

I only started looking into Thank You cards last week. I've been on such a downer since the wedding, I just want to go back to last year and do it all again

But local independent printer might be an option?

My sister used these guys

http://www.thankyoucards.ie

They were great. Cant remember how much though.

Milly33

OH no Kildareash maybe you should go on a nice mini moon for yerselfs.. Kinda wish I could go back to the big day too and be more chilled and less sick... but sure

I found the local printers great too €70 is a great price especially inc the envelopes. They can be a bugger to get the correct sizes..

We got ours printed now more than three months ago and we are still waiting to sit down and write them... got ones made up from Rob Stears he is great, was very well priced too.... Just the thought of writing more cards.... haha id be tempted to send one to a friend of my mothers who had a hissy fit because she wasn't invited but I wont...

kildareash

Milly33 wrote: »

OH no Kildareash maybe you should go on a nice mini moon for yerselfs..

We got ours printed now more than three months ago and we are still waiting to sit down and write them... got ones made up from Rob Stears he is great, was very well priced too.... Just the thought of writing more cards.... haha id be tempted to send one to a friend of my mothers who had a hissy fit because she wasn't invited but I wont...

I'd love to head away for a few days but finances don't allow it at the minute. *sigh*

It is nice not to have that pressure of saving for the wedding anymore though, we're still saving the same amount every month as we were before the wedding, but we dip in and out of if we need or want something.

I got a Rob Stears print for himself for Xmas and I love it, it's just fab. I sent him a few images from the wedding day and he encapsulated them into one print perfectly.

Milly33

Really! haha glad his name is out there now.. Rob's that is he does great work.. I got a special Christmas card made up from him and a sketch kinda something similar to what you say, a little cartoon sketch with how we met and how it all happened...

Ye are very good saving, we have been a little bold now but then we did say for the first few months after we would be.. But tis like the new year now so we need to knock that...Even after moving home we are still spending more money than we should be...

Pitch a tent in the backyard and pretend ye are away haha well maybe when the weather picks up a bit.

fits

We too have had a dismal time. Both of us lost our jobs around November. Then I sort of got mine back under a different arrangement. Husband just got a job too starting Monday. And then I have had health issues to boot. Think we are finally getting back on track now though. I'm glad we had our lovely wedding day and honeymoon last year. This year would be a different story!

Milly33

Jes ladies haha maybe we were better off not getting married..

Hope ye are both ok Fits! Sounds like a dose...

Pistachios & cream

We got ours ages ago and even wrot most of them but have only sent a few. I just need to buy a batch of stamps and post them.

Sorry to hear ye have been having a tough time fits & kildareash. Hopefully things will start looking up from now on.

Faith

We went with vistaprint for ours. I thought they were really nice . We got most sent out before Christmas, but we needed about 5 addresses and only managed to get hold of them last week :eek:. So a few were very delayed.

For any future brides and grooms reading this, I highly recommend a delayed honeymoon. We didn't even book ours until after the wedding. We got married in August, booked the honeymoon in late September and went on it for the first two weeks of February. It was a brilliant way to bypass the post-wedding blues.

Milly33

With you on that Faith. We done the mini moon option.. Went on a short break after the wedding, then later on went for a long weekend break away, another then at Christmas and we still have lots left to do something else... Cant wait for the next one

ChewChew

Ladies, I hope ye don't mind me asking but I'm just wondering who ye used for invites? I'm getting some made and each card is in usually hand printed so they ain't too cheap but I was thinking of getting some others as a back up for writing errors and that. I had a look on vista and optimal print but none seem to allow a line to write the guests name on which is very much what I want. Hope ye can help?

nickiirl

Hi Ladies, @Milly33 & @Faith We did the same! We got married last March (hard to believe its a year already) and we did a mini moon around Ireland for a few days. We booked our honeymoon after the wedding too. We went on a Caribbean cruise end of July/Aug. It was lovely to have it to look forward to after the wedding. We did our thank you cards on vista print and they turned out lovely and they weren't too expensive either. We used one of those promo codes and I think we got about 70ish.. We still had some left over. We did them when we were about 6 months married. I still have a few here that I haven't seen yet to give them.

@Chewchew We made our own invitations as we found it was expensive and it was easier to make them. We did a lot of DIY ourselves to be honest, the only thing I was unable to get right was the inserts (and I tried and you-tubed everything) which we got done in the printers in the end.

Pistachios & cream

ChewChew wrote: »

Ladies, I hope ye don't mind me asking but I'm just wondering who ye used for invites? I'm getting some made and each card is in usually hand printed so they ain't too cheap but I was thinking of getting some others as a back up for writing errors and that. I had a look on vista and optimal print but none seem to allow a line to write the guests name on which is very much what I want. Hope ye can help?

Chew chew we went with vistaprint. We uploaded our own design so got the line etc we needed. Lots of etsy sellers will sell you just the image that you can upload yourselves to vistaprint Just be careful that the dimensions are right as each vistaprint site uk,us, Ireland etc. use slightly different measurements.

A tip with vistaprint. Go through the ordering process but don't checkout. Wait a week or so and they will send you discount codes. I actually ordered from the vistaprint US website as it was cheaper even with the higher postage.

rainbow kirby

We still haven't sent ours! Just over 10 months since the wedding so we really should get around to it. Baby arrived 5 days ago so we're a little otherwise occupied at the moment

nickiirl

Big Congrats to you both @rainbow kirby!

Milly33

Congrats to ye kirby!! Hope ye are all doing great,


Oh a cruise i would love to go on one..Are they good then? I would not be much of a sun worshiper or anything like that, was thinking maybe of the one to the northern lights haha or the Disney cruise..

We got our thank you cards from Rob Stears ChewChew he is Dublin based loverly chap and he does it all himself, he can do custom ones. will send the envelopes in all with it.. i think we got it a little cheaper as we used him before but it was nothing mad

fits

rainbow kirby wrote: »

. Baby arrived 5 days ago so we're a little otherwise occupied at the moment

Woop! Congratulations. Boy or girl?

rainbow kirby

Little boy-shaped bundle of cuteness

Faith

So, our hotel does the usual stay-for-free-on-your-1-year-anniversary thing. Are hotels typically rigid about dates, do you think? We got married in August but won't be in Ireland until September again.

nickiirl

Faith wrote: »

So, our hotel does the usual stay-for-free-on-your-1-year-anniversary thing. Are hotels typically rigid about dates, do you think? We got married in August but won't be in Ireland until September again.

We got a voucher from the hotel for the over night stay and dinner and we haven't used our voucher yet. I just checked the voucher and we have six months to use it. So I'm sure hotel will be ok with it too

fits

Faith wrote: »

So, our hotel does the usual stay-for-free-on-your-1-year-anniversary thing. Are hotels typically rigid about dates, do you think? We got married in August but won't be in Ireland until September again.

Id say they'd much prefer to facilitate you in September than August.

A little boy! Yay!

emzolita

Wow Fits you have been through the mill lately,you poor thing. Hope you're on the mend now.
Aw congratulations Kirby, that's brilliant. Well done to you.

For our Thank You cards we went with Optimal Print and I was very impressed with them. Got an online coupon code too and got a good discount.

Our invites were made by Design of Affection, she was very good.

We didn't have a free anniversary night stay with our hotel, but they used our photos for their new wedding brochure and gave us an overnight b&b and dinner stay as a thank you. I'm delighted with that.

Extraplus

Massive congrats on the new arrival kirby!

I wanted to get our thank you cards out straight away so went with a fairly basic design, but I knew if I didn't do it straight away it wouldn't get done. I haven't even started on an album!

fits

Sorry to hear that Sticky. Sounds like you have been through a lot

Extraplus

I'm sorry sticky, sounds like you have had a really tough time.

Faith

Sorry to hear that, sticky . At least he got to be there for your wedding, as you said. You'll always have those memories.