Three Months (and Lots of Thank Yous) Down

We interrupt our recaps to share a brief perspective on the quarter year that the Turkeys have been married. To some it may be a short period of time, but considering the fact that we’ve lasted longer than the Kardashian – Humphries union, I think it’s something to celebrate.

And celebrate we did - with champagne (yes, again) and a red velvet cupcake

It’s been a crazy busy three months. Just the other day I was asking coworkers what happened to June and July…I hardly remember them!

Some highlights of the summer so far (excluding the honeymoon) - from breweries to beaches;
bridesmaid dresses to Baseball Hall of Fame and everything in between

One of the biggest highlights in our 3 months of marriage was attending our first wedding as Mr. & Mrs. Turkey.

Mr. & Mrs.

Groomsman C had a classic, fabulous Philadelphia wedding and our feet still hurt from dancing the night away!! Where his (now) wife A gave me the recommendation for our videographer back in the day, we introduced them to Jellyroll. It was an added bonus to their great wedding celebration to be able to see both “vendors” (hate that word) and say an in-person thank you.

Beautiful, lush centerpieces

And let me tell you, it is so fun being on the other side as a wedding guest. We got choked up when they said their vows, appreciated all the little details and, since we loved guest photos so much, I went a little camera happy and took over 100 photos of their big day. I emailed a few selected images and already got a “thank you” from the bride and groom!

The entire photo collection, along with videos of the speeches - now in the mail on the way
to the bride and mother of the groom

Overall, these three months have been fantastic. Not much has really changed for Mr. Turkey and me, but we can now call ourselves a true family now…oh, and we share the same name (more on that later). More or less, hitting the three month mark meant keeping busy and checking off a few big goals.

The biggest one was thank you notes. Per Emily Post, 3 months is the maximum amount of time you have to write thank you notes.

If you recall, we began writing thank you notes once the gifts came in.  They were written up to 1 week before the wedding so that when we returned from our honeymoon, the only ones we needed to write were from gifts received at the wedding. This was a very good thing because our guests were very generous and we had a lot of writing to do. We also had notes to write to all those who helped make the day what it was (hair, makeup, photography, videography, etc).

I talked before about how Mr. Turkey and I were considering writing a second set of notes after the wedding to the guests who received thank yous before the wedding. Although these were a third priority (following gifts from wedding and vendors), they were important to me. It actually required placing a reorder on our notecards with Two Paperdolls. Yup, that’s right, we RAN OUT of cards (and we had 150 to start!!).

Some of the second set of thank you notes - received by guests at ~2.5 months out

Although this decision was somewhat second-guessed, I have to say, it was the right thing to do and we were very happy with this decision. Several of the guests who received two thank yous have expressed gratitude to our parents and shared how much it meant to them to hear from us post-wedding. So, brides (and grooms), if your cramped hands can take it – I recommend taking this path!

The other big “check” was choosing images for our wedding album. We definitely did not want to be the couple who reaches their tenth anniversary without an album (that we paid for). You’ve seen several posts of Gabe’s fabulous pictures (and there are more to come), but Mr. Turkey and I had 1500+ images to go through. We sent him our first pass at choices (may have sent a few more than the limit for the album) and can’t wait to see it all come together.

Pro photos in iPhoto library

How were your first 3 months of marriage? Anyone else in the two thank you note club?