Chronological Guide To Managing Wedding Correspondence

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Introduction Gather Addresses Create List Save The Date Notices Send Invitations Track RSVP Responses Send Announcements Thank You Notes

Managing Wedding Correspondence, Step By Step

Congratulations on your engagement and welcome to being overwhelmed. The anxiety starts as soon as you realize what is involved in successfully achieving your perfect wedding. It continues as you plan and attempt to make that dream come true. It peaks at two in the morning of your wedding day and doesn't end until the last Thank You Note is stamped and mailed.

Luckily though, the survival rate of brides-to-be is nearly 100%. It just takes organization and attention to the small details that make up the big tasks you have to complete. The focus of this guide is to show how to perform each and every step of managing your wedding correspondence and to demonstrate how essential a properly set up contact list is to the process.

Using this, you will learn whom to invite, what items to mail your contacts, how to track who is attending, how to track your gifts and properly send Thank You Notes. This guide will explain how to set up your contact list and use it to perform all of those functions.

There are 7 steps in managing your wedding correspondence:

This guide is chronologically ordered, covers every single task involved with managing your wedding correspondence, and details how to most efficiently use your contact list. It is important to understand that your list is not just an invitation list. When set up properly your contact list will be able to tell you who needs a "Save The Date" notice, who will receive an invitation, who has responded to their invitation, who needs to be sent a wedding announcement and it will track the gifts you receive so you can properly personalize Thank You Notes. A well planned contact list will simplify each and every one of those tasks.

There are some tasks so specific and detailed that they require their own guides (addressing envelopes, wording invitations and thank you notes, etc.). Because of the scope and detail needed for those tasks, they are not covered entirely within this guide and have their own . In those instances, links to those guides are provided. This enables you to use this guide as a gateway and checklist in accomplishing every task invovled in managing your wedding correspondence.