Re: Thank You - After You’ve had Your Dream Wedding…
No one said they had to be handwritten. If some doesn’t think they can do handwritten for whatever reason, it’s not difficult to order pre-written cards with a generic “Mr. and Mrs. ___ would like to thank you for sharing in their happy day” etc. etc. If you had let’s say 500 guests who attended, it would not take more than a few hours to write the names/address on envelope and stick a stamp on it. If husband/wife divide up the task, it’ll go even faster.
You know it all comes down to our priorities. Despite school/job and whatever obligation they have, desi brides manage to spend whatever time they need when it comes to planning the wedding. Dress, jewelry, make-up, decor etc…somehow no desi bride says they’re “too busy” for this or spending so much time planning the wedding will make them ganji. The girl I mentioned earlier…who wrote hand-written notes for hundreds of guests…she is a full-time practicing Oncologist and also went through the moving/setting up, working full-time while she did it. She split the task with her husband and they had a plan…they EACH wrote 10 cards per day. So even if you did that, over a span of a few weeks, you can get several hundred thank you cards out. No one is saying this has to be done in a day.
Its not that you and your husband did not have time to write the thank you cards. You just preferred spending that time doing something else. After all, I doubt you turned down any dawats because you were just so busy with your job/shifting/setting up furniture during those 6+ months.