Good morning lovelies. We thought we’d start this fine week off with a little giveaway from a local Los Angeles studio, Peach Press.
How cute are these little cards? The winner will receive one pack of each: Bride and Groom.
In one sentence (or so), tell us who you’d write your first note to and why. We’re going to pow wow with Megan and Andria of Peach Press to choose our winner on Friday. Leave your comments by Thursday, please!
**UPDATE. Thank you all for your awesome comments! This contest is now closed. We’ll be announcing the winner shortly.
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I think I’d write my first note to my husband and send it to him on our wedding morning as a little message of thanks for marrying me and for everything he has stuck with me through in order to get us up to this amazing day.
I’d send my groom little notes throughout the wedding planning process, reminding him that I’m the bride and he has to do what I say. KIDDING. I’d tell him how lucky I am to be marrying him, and how excited I was for the big day.
Mine would be to my grandmother – she has Parkinsons and won’t be able to attend my wedding. She has always said to me that she was there to help me discover my girly side and eventually become a bride, wife and mother (she is very traditional!). It’s bittersweet that although she is still with us to hear about my wedding, she will not be there with me on the day. I would send her this card with a bridal portrait of me and my new husband to show her that I am proud of being a bride, and hope to follow in her footsteps as a wife (in my own way) and hopefully someday a mother and grandmother as wonderful as she is.
My first note would be sent to my wedding planner. We are getting married in Spain next year and out planner (based in Spain) has been fantastic. Every week I am changing something or spotting something from other weddings that I would liket to include! I think she would love to receive a little notecard like this full of thanks for her time and patience.
“Today is the day that I’m marrying you; the answer to all my ‘why’s and ‘why-not’s. Today, I will kiss your lips with a promise in my heart. Today, I wil whisper a thousand ‘I love you’. Tomorrow, I will love you even more.”
My first note (and my groom’s first note) would go to our bridal party, to thank them for being there to share in our special day and for all the support they have provided us both individually and as a couple. We would not be who we are without them!
I would write to my mom. She has accepted the crazy person I am when it comes to planning… and still answers the phone. So I would write to her and give it to her on my wedding day as a thank you for putting up with me
first of all, i hope there are about a million cards in the card pack, because that’s how many people i owe a huge thank-you too already. thank-you cards were one of the first wedding-related items i purchased, and i’m always running out.
topping off my list of gratitude are the fiance, for putting up with all of my diy “test projects”, half of which turn out to be failures (and huge messes); my sister, for fielding a litany of crackhead phone calls such as “how old are my niece going to be next year?” and lastly, my friend who recently moved to london. although it isn’t as convenient as either of us would like, she’s never complained about the international phone calls at weird hours, and she’s yet to miss one of my special occasions in the states.
Oh what a fun giveaway. My first note would be to myself, sealed up for future keeping.
I would write about what it feels like to be getting married and what I love about my fiance. Just in case we ever hit a rough spot or I want to remember the specific emotions of such an amazing day in our lives. 
Thanks again for this wonderful blog and opportunity. xoxo Nina
Our first notes would be to our future in-laws who have been so incredibly supportive. Since we shared the news with them, they’ve seen us through spinal surgery and a diagnosis of breast cancer. They’ve kept both of us in good spirits despite all the physical pain and fear that’s happened. I know we both want to truly say Thank You in a meaningful way on our wedding day. We would have been lost without our parents support.
i’d write the first note to my mom! she’d absolutely love it.
I would write it to my dad. He is paying for the entire wedding and I know it must be some stress on his back.
First of all, these cards are adorable. I love quick notes and I’m planning my wedding myself so these cards would come in handy to send messages to family, bridesmaids and of course to my soon to be husband on the day of the wedding.
I think I would write notes to each of the ladies standing with me on the morning of the wedding. I’d like them to have a small keepsake of the day in addition to their gift. My mom and dad would need one too!
Well, since I’m writing a journal for FH wedding gift, I’d send my first card to my maid of honor. She has been wonderful beyond the wedding planning. We became friends through our doctoral program and she is being such a great help in accountability and encouragement for me to get through the dissertation process BEFORE the wedding… moments of discouragement, tears, and no sleep.
I’d write a note to my parents (probably front and back) to thank them for the example they’ve always shown me of what a loving marriage should be.
My first note would have to be to my mother. I can barely even explain how wonderful she is and how she is doing everything she can (and more) to make this wedding special for myself and my fiance. We’re big card writers in my family, and these note cards are adorable and perfect!
My first note would definitely be to my groom. Wedding planning has been tough on us and trying to get what we want and trying to make the family happy has been one of our toughest battles. We’ve realized that the only thing that can keep this marriage going would be for him and I to remind each other how much we love each other.
No one these days writes personal notes or letters by hand. Instead we’re blessed and cursed with emails and texts. Handwritten notes, in my opinion, require more time and effort which make them more meaningful. I would love these note cards so I can write loving notes to my groom and soon to be hubby on our wedding day. But also I think it’s be great for him to receive my handwritten notes after a tough day at work, after a fight or even during the ups and downs of our marriage.
random note: i love the shoe on the brides cards! SUPER HOT!
My first note would be to my future mother-in-law. Since my parents’ divorce a few years back, my mother and I haven’t been close. I thought planning my wedding would give us a chance to bond, but she hasn’t been interested in any part of it. In the important moments I’ve experienced as a bride-to-be, such as trying on dresses, finding the dress, doubting the dress, falling back in love with the dress, my fiancé’s mother has been there every step of the way. In times when I’ve really missed my mom, she’s given me love, support, and guidance, and she’s been more dependable than any of my bridesmaids or best friends. She is truly a blessing.
I’d use them to write notes to my bridal party when presents are given at the rehearsal dinner…to thank them for being a part of our special day!
My first note would be sent to my great aunt in new york who cannot attend our wedding in florida. She has always been like a grandmother to me growing up, and with my grandmother passing this year, she would be the one I would want there to celebrate with me in her place.
I’m MOH at my bestfriend’s wedding. I would write a sweet note attached to these and send them to her as a bridal indulgence for her most precious communications of course!
My first note would be to my Maid of Honor/best friend/roommate. Her name is Sarah and we have been inseperable since 9th grade. She not only supports the marriage that is about to occur or helps me plan the wedding… she is more than willing to sacrifice her time to do anything to make this wedding go as smoothly as possible, and does it all with a smile! She is a remarkable friend to both me and my fiance and is there for us during it all, beginning from the time I first laid eyes on my fiance to the first time we said “I love you” to the night he asked me to marry him, and now being there for the emotional and busy time of planning my wedding! She is honestly the most amazing friend a person could ever wish for and I can’t wait to honor her on my big day.
I would write a note to my BFF, we love to find amazing hidden secrets like 100 Layer Cake and Peach Press and share them with each other, enjoying them together is the best!
To my mother for supporting me every step of the way when I am right and for being patient when I am wrong.
Mother’s are AMAZING!
I would save for my dear friend who is getting engaged any day now!
My first note would be to my mom. She was shocked when I got engaged, but still came through for me and has been supporting me ever since. Even though she and my dad are going through tough times, and helping plan a wedding is hard for her, she has been by my side, and at times, dragging me along to get everything done. I love her and want to tell her how amazing she is!
I would give it to my mentors, because in the world today, not all of us come from perfect families that modeled the way a marriage ought to be, and how to selflessly love each other…unconditionally and how to build a family around that. I’m fortunate enough to have a husband/wife team who have been role models and mentors to both me and my fiancée. I value that because I’ve learned so much– not only through the spoken word, but also through observation. What I have gleaned has provided a foundation, a springboard, that both myself and my future husband can use that will propel us into our future TOGETHER. We each write our own love story, but I feel like we’ve been given invaluable keys as we chart out together. You see, we’re a team and I believe in learning from other winning teams. So this is who I would give thanks to.
Kia Ora!
I am marrying a Kiwi (New Zealander) and although we are hosting the wedding in the US we want to keep his family as involved as possible even though many of them will not be able to make the long trip. My fiancé sends his family regular mail all the time to feel closer to them, especially his grandmothers who are in nursing homes. We would both send out these notes to his family in New Zealand and ask them to send us photos and other pieces of his homeland we can have at the wedding to bring our families and respective childhood homes a little closer.
Thanks!
I have to agree with Stacie Hauer! 100 Layer Cake has become our newfound addiction! Best friends since 8th grade, and a renewed friendship as of this summer, we have always been obsessed with weddings and sharing little notes! Little things like notes and other simple gestures might be silly to others, but it’s the world to us! xo
This would go straight to my guy. I love everything about cards, from making my own, to finding great ones. I love leaving ones for him as little surprises, with just a simple note inside. How wonderful would it be that this could be the first note he receives with me as his wife?
My first note would be to my mom. She has been the most amazing wedding planner extraordinaire you could find! She spends far too much time searching for the right pieces to make our big day amazing. Not only have I seen talents in her I never knew before but we have grown so close over the last 9 months planning together. I love her and in my first note I would tell her all of that!
I would write my first letter to my mom, Robin, who passed away 5 years ago from Breast Cancer. She loved to eat and we are having a lot of her favorite foods served at the wedding cocktail hour (like “robin’s ribs”). She was never one to worry about dresses or make-up but always loved a good meal and so I would tell her that we made sure everyone had a good meal.
These are so precious!
I would definitely use the first one to write a note to my groom the day of the wedding. Hopefully, the card is large enough for me to get all of my words in it 
! I think I would probably use the rest for my bridesmaids’ gifts!
First of all, I LOVE Nina’s idea of writing a note to herself. I think that’s such a beautiful keepsake for a bride.
These notecards are so cute – I’d write my first one to my groom. He is my rock in everything, and I want to make sure that on our wedding day, he knows just how much I appreciate him for who he his, for the support he gives me, and for the marriage we’ll make together!
My first note would be to my mom as a Thank you note for the awesome Bridal Shower she give me last weekend. My next note would be to my husband-to-be for him to read before he went to bed Friday night. Every night we say goodnight to each other and I think the note would be a little sweet “goodnight” before we become Husband and Wife.
I’d write a special note to my future husband’s mother, thanking her for bringing him into the world, so that he could come into my life. I’ve told her this before, but it stands to be repeated. (Again and again.)
I would love to use these to write our notes to our family and attendants. We’ve just gotten some super tough news about my mother having cancer, so the importance of remembering our parents and tehy’re awesome contributions to our wedding is important to us. To thank them all for supporting us is so important now that all the little menial things seem so insignificant.
I would write my first note to my amazing matron of honor. Her and her husband (also in our wedding party) are trying to have a baby – yes, I will (hopefully) have a very pregnant matron of honor, which I am totally happy about. If this time wasn’t already stressful and emotional enough for her, she has been worried about me and being enough of a matron of honor. I want her to know that it’s all going to be okay, and that, when it comes down to it, my fiance and I just want our best friends to be a part of our marriage!
I would write my first note to my MOH. She is getting married a few months before I am, and going through this together has been a blessing. I might even split the cards with her if I win them
I think my first note would be to my parents, to day thank you for all the help they have been giving us!
My first thank you note would go to my parents. Without them I wouldn’t be the person I am today. Growing up, they sacrificed so much for me and my sister to have a better life. I am truly blessed to have their support no matter what.
My mom. She’s been supportive and with me through every step of my wedding planning process. It’s been a fun ride, but bittersweet at the same times since my father past away, but my wedding will be at time for the entire family to celebrate and make new memories.
I would write my first note to my brother, the most reluctant wedding participant of all time. Our dad died two years ago, so I’ve asked my brother to walk me down the aisle. My dad’s own father died before his youngest sister married, so my dad walked her down the aisle at her wedding. I think having my brother do the same for me will be a throw-back to my dad’s role in his sister’s wedding, a great way to honor his memory, and a relatively painless way for my brother to be involved. He’s just not into it – doesn’t want to buy a suit, cut his long hair (as my mom has requested), or endorse a commercially-driven institution.
I would write him a note saying that he can wear what he wants and keep his long hair if he’ll agree to step up and fill our dad’s shoes in this most emotional of moments.
I’d give these cards first to my parents and soon to be parents in-law. They’ve been so supportive of our upcoming marriage, both morally and financially. Our wedding would be nowhere as nice without them.
I’d write the first note to my “step-father”. I put that in quotes because he married my mother two years ago and I had been an adult for many years. He has been incredible during the planning process and has helped so much with securing a reception site and tent rentals as well as making wooden centerpieces for me. He really has gone above and beyond for a girl who is not his daughter! I really have no idea how I am going to thank him for all he has done!
To my grandmother in Spain. She most likely won’t be able to travel to the US to see me on my wedding day, but has still been super supportive through the planning process from thousands of miles away – including sending me brochures from bridal gown boutiques in Spain to being a sounding board! So she would certainly be the first, though I would have to put a little note on the bottom explaining what “from the bride” means
Our first notes would be to our future bridesmaids and groomsmen and mine (to my bridesmaids), in keeping with the “shoe theme” of the note card, would read as follows: “will you stand beside me on november 20, 2010…. and every day ’til then?”
Oh. These are achingly beautiful.
We might use these as a way of communicating on the big day.
So, when we’re both nervous and shaken, worried and stressed, we get a sigh of relief in the form of a sweet note from the bride for him, and from the groom for me.
I can just see my sweet bridesmaids giggling and rushing them to one of the groomsmen to pass along to the Mr. and likewise, the groomsmen passing along the notes of encouragement and love from my wonderful guy to me.
LOVE.
I would write a note to my father on my wedding day, thanking him for showing me what it means to be a devoted husband, to be with my mother in sickness and in health, through immigration and chemotherapy. He set the bar high, and I finally found a qualified candidate and will be marrying him next June!
I would write my first note to my groom on the wedding day – full of mushy barfaroni proclamations of my undying love and affection. I’d thank him for being my best friend and the awesomest groom in the whole wide world … and then I’d tell him that I’d see his cute butt at the alter and to try not to cry too much when he sees me in my dress.
Everyone has such good and meaningful ideas behind who they want to send a note to! I would probably write the first note to my sister to ask her to by my maid of honor. She has been not only a sister, but a true friend our whole lives. The rest of course, would go to the other bridesmaids. I’m still early in the planning process because the future groom is deployed for the next year with the military. So I’ve been trying to plan as much as possible without actually being able to plan a specific date. These cards are a cute, practical thing I can hang on to for a while and will be perfect whatever season the wedding ends up being!
I’d write the first note to our officiant, my second-cousin Hank. His dad is very sick, and within the last few years he’s lost his mother, his brother, his mother-in-law, and several others. I want to tell him that he still has a loving and loyal family, and to tell him how much his strong marriage and loyalty to his family means to me.
I think I’d write my first note to my fiance/husband and save it until our first anniversary (paper) telling him how I feel just before getting married and what I hope our first year will be like.
My dad would get the first note. He sent me an email the day after I got engaged and it was so sweet it made me cry. Since then we’ve gotten in a few heated disagreements about the wedding and I feel like he’s pulling away a bit. I’m not sure if it’s because of our choices about the wedding, if he’s feeling left out or if he has bittersweet feelings about me getting married- or if i’m just imagining it! Regardless, I want to make sure he knows that I still need him and just because some things will change my love for him never will.
My first note would be written to my parents who reside in Heaven and won’t be joining us on our wedding day. I would simply say “thank you for having me, caring for me, loving me and teaching me that my life is what I make it…and it is amazing.” I love them so much!
My first note would be to my mom. My parents have never had a lot of “extra money”, and my father had wanted to be able to help my fiancee and I afford a nice wedding. Within 7 weeks, he went from being diagnosed with stage 4 cancer and emaciating before our eyes, passing away on June 7th of this year. His loss has all but torn my family apart (all of us dealing with our own grief), and my mother has done what she could with what money and time she has herself to help us out with our wedding. She has been so wonderful, and I know that it must be difficult for her to try to be happy for us, when she is thinking about all that my dad will miss. I am very close with my mom, and would want to write her a thank-you, for all her patience with us, her ideas, hard work, time spent, and tears shed. She is an incredible woman, and I would want to let her know how proud I am of her and how much she means to both my fiancee and me.
LOVE these! My fiance and I have rented an 11 bedroom estate for our closest friends. One of the most exciting ideas I had was to hire a manicurist to the house the day of the wedding to do all of my girlfriends nails as a gift from me. I had planned to slip a note under each door the night before, to invite them for a manicure and glass of champagne. This card would pull this idea together perfectly! I think the “groom” version would be the perfect match for John inviting the guys down for a cocktail in the drawing room at the same time.
I would write my first note to my fiancee on our wedding day morning. I would have my matron of honor sneak it into his tux right before he put it on. It would say something personal about our life and how I am so thankful I get to share it with him.
I would use these to write a note to my fiance on our wedding day for him to read before we saw each other! I think it would add a whole lot of cuteness to the day
My first note would be written to my mother, who sees my impending wedding not just about me and my fiance, but as a culmination of her and my dad’s vows thirty years ago. My mom’s done the lion’s share of wedding planning, as I’m getting married in my home state a thousand miles away, and I would write to her as a thank you for everything she’s done!
My first note would be to my aunt who is practically my mom. She has been my shoulder to lean on through all the ups and downs of my life and my relationship. I would thank her for being such an amazing presence in my life and so supportive through this wedding planning as I finish law school.
I would write my first note to my Grandmother. I am getting married on April 24th – her wedding date – and wearing her dress. I would write to thank her for the loan of the dress, tell her how excited I am to hopefully have a marriage like her and my grandfather’s, and how she is getting a preview, since the shoe on the stationary looks like the one I am wearing with the dress!
I would write the first note to my mom to thank her for everything she has given me – advice, a sounding board, a shoulder to cry on, financial support, etc. She has been my biggest supporter throughout the years. She is doing all she can to allow me to have the wedding of my dreams because according to her, she never got the chance to have her dream wedding so she wants to live vicariously through mine.
i would write my groom a little note on our day, and then of course my mom and my bridesmaids. so many wonderful people that have been there for me throughout this exciting and sometimes stressful process.
My first note would be to my parents. The last few years have been hard on them financially between the economic down turn and investing in my brother’s business which hasn’t been doing well. My fiance and I assumed we’d we taking part of the expense and his parents have offered money as well. Despite that, my parents want to pay for the wedding themselves. I’d thank them for their support and generosity. I know that they really can’t afford to give all they have been and I want to find a way to show my appreciation.
I would write a letter to my parents, who were the people I was the most excited to call after I got engaged on Saturday(!!). I would thank them for teaching me through example on the importance of love, respect and never taking that special someone for granted. It will be very happily ever after for me!
My first note would be to my father. Growing up, I have always been daddy’s little girl. It’s hard for me to imagine him not being the first man I go to anymore, but I know that he will forever be there for me when I do need to go to him. I’d tell him I will always be his little girl.
I would definitely use these the morning of the wedding. I’d give one to each member of our wedding party, thanking them for being there for us and telling them exactly why it’s so important to us that they take part in this great moment in our lives
Hopefully it would start the day off on a happy, loving note!
My first note would be to my husband-to-be to open before the ceremony. I would try to capture in words the excitement of starting a new life together and all of the aspirations I would have for us. Even though we’ve been living together for 3 years now, the fact that I would sign his surname, my new last name, would make it “official”. I’m sure I would have to steady my hand for that signature!
I would send a note to our groomsmen on the “from the bride” stationary, and have my fiance send the notes to our bridesmaids. We are having an engagement party in January and this would make the perfect “thank you” card for to our friends.
Ooh, this one’s easy! I’d write to myself in the future..
After our 6 year relationship and 8 months of Wedding planning (and all the emotions, anxieties and stress that come with it), It’s been so hectic that I usually have to stop myself from.. yes, I will admit it.. getting out of control.
But, apart from the ups and downs and growing in our relationship, planning our wedding and preparing ourselves for the promises we will make to each other; I’ve also made it a point to re-commit to myself—to not forget what makes me ‘me’.
I would write this to myself–
Cat,
You can only give others what you contain in your own heart–
Love.
Kindness.
Joy.
Forgiveness.
…Whatever it may be.
If ever lost, Find it in His blanket of Grace and Mercy.
Ps. You were so happy, peaceful and thankful today. 4.10.10 <3
My first note would be to my fiance’s grandmother. She has Alzheimer’s and will not be able to attend our wedding. Due to distance, I’ve never had the pleasure of meeting her. I would love to tuck one of our engagement photos into one of these and send it to her – I think it would be a nice introduction!
I would write this note to my husband and send it to him about a month before he comes home. He is stationed in the middle east with the Air force for 6 months and will hopefully be home in time for our wedding in June. I’d thank him for missing out on the sleep he needs to talk to me so I don’t go crazy missing him. It’s only been two weeks and it’s terrible that he’s sooooo far away!
I would write my first oh so adorable “from the bride” note to my mom. My mom has been my best friend and rock. She has gone to countless site visits, wedding planner meetings, dress try-ons, scouring the universe for the perfect shade of pink, and much much more. Even though getting married to my handsome and hilarious fiance will be the happiest day of my life, I am sad to be having my mom give me away. She has helped me become the woman I am, and I would love to be able to thank her by handing her this note before I leave my wedding. It would say thank you, I love you, and you are now dismissed from my crazy bridal control.
without hesitation, the first note would be written from bride to groom. (and hopefully he’d do the same back!)
The first note would go to his grandparents, who have been married for over 60 years! We hope we have a love like theirs.
To my mom and dad,
For teaching me to honor marriage and to never take your better half for granted. You have my deepest gratitude!
Love,
your daughter
My first note would be to Megan & Andria, to say thank you. My second note would be to you lovely people for having such a wonderful giveaway! I would then pen individual thank you notes to my bridesmaids and the mothers (and other special women) who are standing up with me and helping me with my wedding. I can’t wait to be married to my fiance, and I want these ladies to know how special they are and how grateful I am for them making my wedding so wonderful.
Well, I would actually love to win this as a gift for a friend! But, if the set were mine my first note would probably be written to my mom!
To my Mother and Father-In-Law to be,
Thanks for paying for all of this!!! CHEERS!
Love,
Your Daughter-In-Law to be if you can afford it
J/K!!
Dear ______,
Shut up. Shut up. Shut up…. how CUTE are my thank you notes here?! I know, I know… you are completely smacking your head against the wall they are so damn cute. That pretty much sums up my feelings as well.
Jealous, are you? Surely, you are. That’s OK… I only get approximately 6 more months of rubbing my super-cute-as-proper-pie notes in everyone’s face.
Thank you for the fabulous gift at my shower. I love nothing more than the portly birds that are featured on my china pattern. I may feed the cat off the dessert plates I want to look at them so much. You are a doll and I love my dessert plates more than the life itself.
From the bride,
C
I would write a note to my parents, who are throwing us the most amazing wedding at my dream venue. They have been so wonderful and I would love to thank them properly.
Thanks for the chance of winning!
Beautiful cards! I would write a note to my groom on the day of our wedding to let him know the thoughts fluttering through my mind before I walk down the aisle.
I think I would write my first note, to my mother. She is currently hospitalized and has not been awake for this part of the planning process so I would jot down everything that I’ve needed to do and let her know that even though she’s not standing next to me, she is with me in all of the decisions I’ve made so far. I think she might like to have some good reading on adorable paper I might add as she recovers!!
From the moment you first kissed me, I felt like a woman. I’ve left behind all the hang ups, and allowed myself to feel the way you see me- as someone utterly beautiful. I thank you for coming into my life, for you have not only loved me, but made me love myself. I love you hubby, don’t you you forget it.
-N
My grandmother! I know that it’s going to be a long tiring day for her to make it to my wedding so I want to make sure that she knows how much it means to me for her to be there!
I would write notes to my new groom and hopefully he would write notes to me
(Or I would be really nice and give them to my brother and his new, uber fabulous, fiance!)
a note cannot begin to describe how thankful i am for my amazing parents… i got married a week ago and i literally would have fallen apart without them. i am still trying to figure out how to express just how thankful my husband (still getting used to that word!) and i are for everything they’ve done for us.
but these sweet sweet notecards would be an excellent place to start.
I would love to have my husband and I write a note to each other at the end of the evening reflecting on our wedding day so that we’re able to have a reminder of that moment whenever we want it (or need it). I know that it will be a wonderfully frenzied day and want to have a little slice of it preserved so that when we get back to the real world and start to think “what just happened?” we can look back and remember the most important moments.
To my best friend (and her family)
We are going to be each other’s Maid of honors this year, and I could not imagine it differently. Her family has become like my own, and I have learned selflessness and joy simply from being around them. She is the friend every girl hopes to find, and we stumbled into friendship 10 years ago.
My first note would be to my Gami, who passed away three years ago. I would tell her how happy I am and how much I wish she were there. Lastly, I would thank her for making who I am today….and for giving me her hands
I’ll send it to my grandmother in the Philippines, who has been praying for our wedding day for seven years. She’s heard of my fiance, but has never met him, and because of her state of health, will not be able to come to the states to see us married. I know how excited she is for me and this would just tickle her to death. When I write her, I’ll tell her that I’m bringing her newest grandson to meet her.
My first note would be to my Mother-in-law. It would be a thank you note for her for the day of our wedding. She is a mother of two boys and always wanted to have a daughter. She told me recently that she feels that she has one now. I am overwhelmed by her love and acceptance of me into her family.
My first card would be to my best local friend who introduced me mistakingly to my fiance. Her date with him didn’t work out, but it did with his best friend. After she dated the best friend for over a year, she (not on purpose) had me meet Josh…..and that is that. We are now so happily engaged……I hope she will be soon too! So, I would write my first note to her because she helped me find the love of my life……I owe it all to her and her!
I’ve known now for a while that my grandfather will not be able to attend my wedding in June. He lives in Wisconsin (which is where almost all of my mom’s family is) and is too ill to travel for an entire weekend. I have obviously felt terrible about this because my grandfather has always served as such a positive influence in my life and the best example of a kind and giving heart and I was really hoping to see his big smile sitting in the front row of the church. Since the rest of the family will be traveling to North Carolina for the wedding it’s almost like my poor grandfather will be left behind…I would definitely write my first note to my grandfather, who after recently making it through a tough couple of weeks in the hospital (thinking he had a cancerous tumor in his colon) declared joyously (after finding out that he didn’t have supposed cancerous tumor)”Maybe, I will even make it to Andrea’s wedding!” I love his warm heart and his positive spirit — even in the toughest of times — he deserves much more than a note, but I know that it would make his day!!
I would use these as thank you notes to our bridal party! They are adorable!
I’d love to give these to my good friend, Laura, who just got engaged. She lives in Chicago and is a really successful publisher for a local magazine. I know she spends more time thinking about her work and family and less on how exciting and fun the wedding planning can be. I think these would be a great way to remind her how fun the process is!
Will have my bridal shower soon, so those will be the first ones!!
My first thank you note would go to my mom. She is my best friend, my mentor, and my wedding planner! She has done so much for me throughout my entire life, and the least I could do is send her the first thank-you. Not to mention, she would DIE over these notes!
My first note would be to my groom who is currently in Iraq. Planning this wedding without him here sure is hard and I know he slightly feels left out and at the same time he doesn’t quite have the time to sit and think “wow, we’re really getting married”. I think this would be the perfect little pick me up for him.
I would send my first thank you to by best friend Jill, who would happen to be my maid of honor. i would thank her for all the amazing work she put into to helping me not stress out before the wedding and for plannin the most amazing bridal shower. I’m not married yet, but I know Jill will be there by my side
….thank you jill
I’d write my first thank you notes to our mothers- sadly neither of which are here in this world to celebrate with us, but we know and are very thankful for them working their magic in bringing us together from heaven.
With or without these notecards, I will be writing my first thank you to my grandfather who passed away. I wrote to him on my first college paper, I wrote to him when I bought a home, I wrote to him when I got engaged and when I became a dog-mom. I will write to him and thank him for being my best friend and making another family event all the more special with his presence.
These notes are on a whole other level of lovely!
After much thought, I think I’d write my first thank-you note to my father.
Growing up, he never said much but I knew no matter what, I was always going to be his little girl, and he knew he would always love me and be there for me.
Now that I will soon have a husband and start a new chapter in my life, I want to write to my father and thank him for loving me with no prejudice, boundaries, and for always taking care of me since the day I was born…and that no matter where I am or how many other milestones I achieve thus far, he will always be a staple in my life.
I would write the first note to my fiance’s grandparents who passed away this year. I would tell them what an inspiring example their marriage was for my fiance and I over the seven years we dated. I would write how thankful I am to be blessed by their hard work because their marriage effected multiple generations for the better. Then I would frame it and display it on the guest book table. I think it would be a perfect way to pay a much deserved tribute to them.
Mine would be to our daughter. Explaining to her how our life fell into place and she came in and made it even more perfect. I’d tell her how much her Daddy and I love her and how our life wouldn’t be the same without her. She’s perfect.
To my Matron of Honor, for doing such a great job!
I would write my first note (in memory) to my grandmother. The pink in the bride’s card reminds me of delicate flowers, and flowers always remind me of her! She was an amazing flower arranger and my last memory with her was picking flowers from her garden to make arrangements for around my grandparent’s house. I am designing the flowers for my wedding based on what I imagine my grandmother would be proud and ecstatic to see at such an important event for my family. I know my grandpa would treasure knowing that she had such an impact on our special day even though she couldn’t be there to celebrate it with us.
“dear mom, thank you for holding my hand as i prepare to walk in the new shoes of marriage. its like learning to walk for the first time; 28 years later, your support still means the world to me.”
Our first notes would be to the lovely couple who set us up and knew our fate before we even had an inkling!
my first note would be to my mom and dad. my entire life, they’ve been incredibly supportive, loving and generous… even when it came to the issue of marriage. my fiance and i are sort of untraditional in the way that we’ve been together and lived together for many, many years before we decided to get married. because i haven’t doubted for a long time that my fiance was the love of my life, i never stressed much about not being engaged or married, despite the questions and pressure from friends, co-workers, family and acquaintances. my parents never pressed the issue or questioned our reasons for not getting married sooner, mostly because they knew we were happy and that’s all that mattered. because of this and a million other reasons, i’ll always think they’re the coolest parents around!
I would send my first card to my mother! We might disagree on most of the wedding, but I still want her to know that I am so happy she is a part of it.
My birthmother.
I was adopted as a baby. It was a closed adoption, and my birthmother wrote my family letters through the agency I was adopted from. I recently turned 21, which legally lets me contact her if both she and I agree to it. She wrote me a letter stating that she would LOVE to meet me and really wants to be involved in my life now. I’m so excited, because I get to meet her before my wedding, and she can witness the most special day of my life.
I am so blessed to have a birthmother that would realize that a life with a good family would be better than being raised by a very young, single mother. She not only gave me up selflessly, but she stayed involved with my life for 21 years (as much as she legally could, anyway).
I think she would deserve the first note, and I would be honored to write it to her.
Can i also say that Nina’s idea of writing the first note to herself and keeping it for future reference is such a lovely idea — how smart! i’m probably going to have to borrow that idea and do it for myself… having it on peach press paper would be a huge bonus! i would write a similar note for my man and save it up for a later date as well — maybe give it to him on our first anniversary
These are adorable! And exactly what I need to get my butt in gear with our thank you notes (Its coming up on two months since our big day!)!!
My first thank you note would go to my Great Auntie Midge (who is 89). She hand made and assembled a Swedish wedding cake for our guests to enjoy as a wedding gift for me and my husband (complete with the heirloom cake plate that she had gifted to me at my bridal shower). The Swedish wedding cake is a tradition on my dad’s side of the family that she started over 50 years a go. She made the same cake for her own wedding to my dad’s uncle, one for my parents wedding, 35 years ago, and now ours. I know it was a lot of stress and work for her–especially at her age, but it was such a special gift, and a wonderful way to honor my dad’s relatives, and celebrate the love and the heritage on my father’s side and to share such a sweet tradition with all our friends and family.
My first note would be to my mother, to thank her for all the time she spent helping me to get to the big day. My mother and I have been doing the wedding planning and having a wonderful time doing so. I’d recall a few of my favorite moments from the year of planning (dress shopping, venue visits, creating favors) and leave the note on her dresser for her to read while she gets ready.
My first note would be addressed to my baby sister. There is a 20 year age difference between us, and I am tickled pink that she will be with me there on my wedding day as my Flower Girl. It has been such a treasure to have her help me plan my wedding, and watch as she starts to dream about hers in the process.
My first note would be to my groom telling him how lucky I am to be his bride and how I’m counting down the days until I say “I do”
I would write my first notes to my sisters, and maids of honor. Together with my future husband they are the most important things in the world to me. I wouldn’t be whole without them. I would thank my middle sister for her bottomless well of style advice, and for listening to me complain on the phone last night when I broke my refrigerator (seriously). I would thank my youngest sister for not getting mad at me for sending her links to every bridesmaid dress on the planet and for making a trip to David’s Bridal a whole lot more fun when she snuck into a dressing room to try a gown on herself.
i think my first note would definitely have to be to my parents to thank them for all their love and support thru the planning process and for being such a great example for my fiancee and i.
I’d love for these notes to be to our bridesmaids, groomsmen and parents, given to them with our gifts to them for helping and supporting us.
Thank you for this awesome giveaway! I’m obsessed with letterpress papergoods. I would love to give these out to my wedding party.
I’d write mine to my Mum asking her very nicely not to just go ahead and do things like book the band without us hearing them first, even though they do seem like the sort of band we might like. Hopefully she’d be so distracted by the beautiful stationery she’d not not be completely antagonised by the telling off!
Wow-that is a really hard question. I think that the first note that I would write would be to my sister. She’s my maid of honor, techincally matron. She has been SO supportive of my wedding, especially since she just got married in May. I am amazed at her ability to support me, and care about me, and embrace my emotional roller coaster, especially after having just gotten through it herself. The second note would be to Matt’s grandmother. She has been recently re-hospitalized, and I am afraid that she might not make it to June in order to be at our wedding…
My first note would be to my grandmother who passed away about a year and a half ago. I never imagined I would be getting married and she wouldn’t be there, but life is unexpected. I know that she will be there in spirit with me on my wedding day, and I am incorporating many details into the wedding to honor her, including using her mother’s wedding band as my own and using her lace table cloth as my chuppah. She was a wonderful lady and the most lovely grandma.
i would send one to my sisters. thanking them for being so very different than me and keeping me in check. and apologizing for any moments where i didn’t seem to be grateful for their quirks – which make me smile every single day. even if my younger sister has a tattoo like she’s been autopsied on her chest and wants me to cover it somehow so grandma doesn’t see it
I am very fortunate to have a loving fiance who leaves me notes in unexpected places. I would absolutely, without a doubt, send my first note to him to let him know just how lucky I am to be marrying someone as wonderful and thoughtful as he is. I would have it tucked in a safe place for him to find on our wedding day, so that hopefully it would brighten such a special day the same way he has brightened all my ordinary ones.
I’d write my first note to myself. To enjoy every minute of it because I hear it goes by quick! The next would be to the hubby just to say I love him!
My first little note would be to my new husband. Yesterday he did something that showed me how much he wants this to be our perfect day. He actually started getting involved in the process. We’ve inquired to about 10 churches now and they’ve all told us they won’t marry us because we aren’t parishioners so he tried as hard as he could because he knows we both want to get married in the church! I love this guy! And on the day after our wedding I’d use one of these notes to tell him how much I love him and appreciate how much him coming in when I needed his help meant to me that as his new bride!
I’d write my first note to my grandmother-in-law in Indonesia. She wouldn’t be able to make it to the wedding, and I don’t know if I’d get to ever meet her. I’d enclose a photo with the notecard and let her know how much I wish she could share the moment with us!
i think i would write my first note to my (future) husband! how appropriate it would be to use a “from the bride” notecard to write to the groom, without whom i wouldnt be a bride! there are always tons of people to thank and remember, and in the midst of all the craziness, its too easy to forget *the* person closest to you. these cute cards would remind me to remember him
My first note would be to my grandmother, who will not be able to attend our wedding ceremony. My grandmother has always supported me and written me letters throughout my life – even when I moved away for college and settled in LA, far away from her in Kansas. I would love to give her the special touch of letting her know that she is incredibly important to me and that I will be thinking of her throughout my wedding day.
My first note would definitely be to my parents. They’ve always given me the very best that they could afford and have supported me and loved me through all my decisions, even when other people told them not to. I would tell them exactly what I just wrote.
First note would go straight to the groom as we got ready for our big day. I know I’m going to be a wreck without him by my side all morning, so I will tell him in my note how when I am with him, I am home and how I can’t wait to get home!
I would write my first note to my fiance’s mother; to tell her how much I love her and admire her. Her father recently passed away, and she’s having a difficult time dealing with the loss. My fiance is her only son, and she’s divorced. When we announced our engagement, she was excited, gushing to her friends and co-workers about me. Her heart was immediately open to me. I would tell her how much it means to me that we will officially be family, how I appreciate how incredibly kind she is, and how she has passed on her goodness to her son. I would attempt to tell her how much marrying her son means to me, and how grateful I am to her. I would remind her of all the future memories we have to look forward to, even in the midst of loss.
I would write my first letter to my Aunt Candy who is so graciously flying all the way in from Illinois to Pennsylvania to give me away at my wedding (even though she cannot afford too!). She is a truly beautiful person inside and out and has supported and encouraged me when the rest of my family wouldn’t. Her unending love and support has made me the person I am and allowed me the courage to find love with my fiance, Tom. Although no written words would ever come close to thanking her enough, my very first note as a married woman would most certainly be to the woman who has made the biggest impact on my life!
To my sister. Ever since we told her of our engagement she has been sending me ideas and inspirations for all aspects of the wedding. Her enthusiasm is fantastic and she loves letterpress too so I would love to be able to send her a thank you for her support on such lovely paper.
My groom gets such a thrill whenever he gets to refer to me as his future wife or bride to be, I’d have to send the first one to him. The second one I’d write to keep in the scrapbook of notes to my mother, who passed away three years ago.
I would write my first letter to my parents and then my Fiance’s parents second. Just to tell them and thank them for all the help they have given us while planning our wedding. And also for giving us great examples of married couples, from the good to the bad and everything inbetween.
It would be to my darling man, Matthew. After all, there wouldn’t be a wedding without one another, and he means everything in the world to me.
i’d write my first note to my mister to read on our wedding day. i love writing him little notes; this would make the wedding morning note extra special.
I’d use every note to write letters to my future hubby! He and I are living about 13 hours apart right now and I like to write him old-fashioned snail mail love notes to remind him how happy I am to have him. Its much more romantic than the “i luv u” text, and those letters remind us both that separation is making our hearts grow fonder.
I would write a note to my 7 year old niece who will be my flowergirl. Saying she is excited to be apart of our wedding is an understatement. She specifically told me she wants a long white dress but not a poofy one! And when she goes shopping with her mom (my sister) she looks for wedding decor for me! How cute! I would tell her how important she is to me and that I hope her wedding day will be as wonderful as mine.
I’d send the first note to my aupair-”parents” – who live in California and whom I spent nine months with. Thanks to them my English got that good and I am able to read all those fabulous english-written blogs about wedding-planning now. I am getting so many ideas and sane thoughts and owe them a huge THANK YOU!
I wouldn’t write a single thing on any of them. I’d give them to my wonderful friends Andrew and Emily, who’ve been the best of friends to me during rough times, and who are getting married next year! I think they deserve a nice gift like this, they are such a great couple. It’s nice to have two great friends who are together, they deserve the best, and they both are the best!
Hands down the first note I would write would be to my mom. She’s seen our relationship grow over the past eight years. She’s also made me the person I am today.
Her love and support has been beyond what I expected. She’s made the dreams we’ve had about our big day come alive. Without her I don’t know what I’d do. Thanks mom!
The very first note I would write would be to the Best Man, my 13 year-old son. Among many other sentiments, I will first and foremost tell him that I am so proud of him and the young man that he has become.
We are having a very traditional Serbian orthodox ceremony where we will have no vows. Huge bummer to me since I have always dreamed of writing our own. So we both made a pack to write them anyways and share them with each other before the ceremony when we see each other. Sorry I know that was more than one sentence! These would just be so perfect to have forever and ever to look back on!!
Without a doubt the first letter I will be writing with or without the cards would be to my grandmother. However she passed away last year, she lived a long life and died of emphysema and I owe a great deal of my ambition and determination to her, and although she cant read it, I like to think that if I write things somehow she can read what I’m writing. I miss her terribly and am missing her most through something that would mean so much to her.
My first note would be the first in a series of ‘scavenger hunt’ notes to my husband-to-be on our wedding day. The first note would describe something I love about him, then direct him to the next note, and so on, until the very last note that will be accompanied by my wedding day gift to him, which I will have hidden from him. I actually wasn’t going to do this until I saw your notes, which inspired me. So even if I don’t win the notes, I will be doing this for my fiance now anyway!
I would love use these to ask my bridesmaids to be in my wedding. So cute.
I would use these to thank my fiance, since he’ll be stuck with my dowry. Its hefty.
I would love to use these to thank all my friends, who will be travelling from all over the world to see me get married. We’re so spread out that it’s hard to see each other, and as we’re all only beginning our careers money can be an issue. I’m so glad that they will be making the effort to see me, since I love them dearly!
My Maid of Honor, who is also my cousin. She is like a sister to me!
I would write my first thank you note to my future husband’s parents thanking them for finding each other, getting married, and giving birth to him (the most wonderful man I have ever known).