Inspiration Week: Thank You Postcard Printable

Of course, like all wedding events, you gotta send a thank you! I have for you here an adorable set of Thank you Postcards from Emily of Redesign That. She was so kind to work with me to make these for my virtual party and to provide them for my readers!

Aren't they so cute!

Print them, cut them out, and use them! I learned a great tip when it comes to those shower invites. Have the guest fill out their address info near the door as they leave or as they arrive. This way you don't have to hunt through addresses to send those babies out. You'll also get the most up to date address when they fill it out themselves.

With a small party you may find this to be a lazy person tip. But I believe time is money no matter what. No use wasting it! With a big party, this tip would come in handy! (Mine was huge and with so many people I didn't know, go figure that some of those people moved and had different addresses than what I had on record. Like I had time to keep track of people I didn't know! lol)

These cards sit at the proper postcard dimensions so they should be able to be mailed just fine with a regular postage stamp.

*Note: For some reason my printer didn't want to print the proper colors as a PDF file. Try Saving the document as a PNG file. When I printed it after converting it to PNG, the size didn't change and the colors printed. Could have just been my wacky printer but just in case, I shared my solution to my technical difficulty, lol.

Thank you so much Emily! Head on over to Redesign That for your free Thank you note download! Be sure to say hello!

Praise the Lord! Oh give thanks to the Lord, for he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever! - Psalm 106:1

Pickle: Dates to Avoid 2011/2012

The Pickle: You are worried about your date conflicting with something but can't think of what it is.

The Solution: Plan ahead with this awesome article that lists all holidays and the dates of other events to help you with picking your wedding date.

Once you have chosen your date, I would recommend using a checklist. I looked at many but the one that I always went back to was the checklist from theknot.com. What I love is how the tasks on the checklist will pop up only as you need to do them. It also syncs with an app you can download free for your iphone or ipod.

My favorite thing was when people would ask me, "Have you done this yet?" or, "You need to make sure you get this done."  I was able to say, "Nope, it hasn't popped up on my checklist so I will worry about it later." It really helped to stand my ground and not stress about things I didn't have to stress about.

I thought I would give a print-out that you could add to your wedding binder if you have one or to hang on the refrigerator or bulletin board. It is a blank calendar template so that you can write out the dates and tasks from the checklist on the calendar and give yourself a deadline and visual of when the task is to be complete.

Click HERE for Wedding Calendar Printout

What checklists are you using if not the one from theknot.com? 

Command them to do good, to be rich in good deeds, and to be generous and willing to share. In this way they will lay up treasure for themselves as a firm foundation for the coming age, so that they may take hold of the life that is truly life. – 1 Timothy 6:18-19

Pickle: Choosing Your Girls

One of the first steps in wedding planning is choosing the bridesmaids.

The Pickle: I can't have 20 bridesmaids. How do I narrow it down?

The Solution: There are several articles you can find on this particular topic so I will give you a handy chart to aid you.

Essentially, fill it out, see who gets the most marks and you got your girls.

Well, mostly anyway. Let me explain.

According to my filled out chart below, I wanted 8 bridesmaids, I needed 4. The chart tells me it would have been Merissa, Mel, Jessica and Lila (names changed from my actual girls' names)

Here is how the chart is set up.
~ Absolute: The ones who will be your bridesmaid, no thinking about it.
~ Best/Closest: The girls who you are closest to and consider your best friends
~ Oldest: You've known these girls since childhood or since high school, or since college.
~ Family: Blood is thicker than water they say.
~ Facebook: Looking at how often you communicate. Do you facebook this person often?
~ Text: Do you text this person often?
~ Phone: Do you talk on the phone often?
~ Hang Out: Do you hang out, shop, eat often?
~ Meaning: This is the most important. What is the reason God brought that girl in your life? What role did she/does she play? How has she affected or changed you?

Merissa is my sister and my all-star on the chart.
Mel is one of my closet right now and very much a part of my life still. She was a no brainer.
I gave up Jessica, my bestest friend ever because she is in the military and couldn't get leave. I had no choice.
I gave up Lila because while she was my closest cousin, choosing her would have put a rift among my 3 other girl cousins in my family. I gave her a different role in my wedding and she knew and understood.
Ana was my sister to be, essentially family and saw it as absolute for her to be my bridesmaid. Plus, we get along so it was something I wanted.
Mary is one of my best friends who is probably the one friend I feel God actually brought to me as an answer to prayer at a certain time in my life for a specific reason. She holds a lot of meaning for me, so I chose her.
Jerry and Chrissy, while we used to be close and we have history, it just didn't feel right putting them in my wedding when we hardly speak anymore.

After analyzing the chart, I actually chose Merissa, Mel, Ana, and Mary. (Jessica would've been my fifth, but I chose not to replace her, hence only needing four girls.)

So you can fill out the chart, but the last column could change your mind. Fill out the chart based on your relationship with that person now, not on how it was when you were in fifth grade. Pray about it and you will know who are the right girls to be in your wedding and it will feel right.


Download the chart Here or make your own.
Read this very helpful article from The Knot. 

Hopefully, the process is easy rather than painful. Comment and let me know how it goes! :-)

And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God. – 1 Corinthians 6:11