Wedding thank-you cards, each naming the guest and the gift.

• A guest who bought from the registry

  Your note, filled in with the giver's name and the gift from their row of the registry's purchased list. Most of a wedding batch is this row, and it needs no edit.

  Zola's gift tracker exports each giver's address beside the gift. The Knot keeps addresses in its separate guest list, so a Knot batch takes its addresses from the RSVP list, pasted as a second list into the same order.

• Someone who gave cash, a check or a honeymoon-fund gift

  Your note with the giver's name, and the amount turned into words. A postcard back is open to anyone who handles it, so the number stays off; the card says what the money became, the honeymoon dinner or the new couch.

  A pasted "$200" reads as "generous gift" and a Venmo line as "cash gift" when we extract the list; a gift you type yourself prints in your own words, after "the".

• A group gift: the cousins, the college friends, a whole office

  One card to each contributor the registry names, every card thanking for the same shared gift. A department that signed one card gets a single card back at the office address.

  When the registry shows the gift under one name, everyone else who chipped in is a row you add by name.

• Someone who could not come but sent a gift

  Your gift note from the registry row, mailed to the address the registry passed on. With no address, the row stays on your list by name, and you start that card from our email once the address arrives.

  A guest who declined the invitation may never have given the RSVP tool an address, so this row is the one most likely to arrive without one.

• The wedding party, and both sets of parents

  Their own card. The registry row is missing, or is not the point, so open each of these before checkout and write about the toast, the fittings or the year of help.

  A card to the people who stood up with you reads as yours when it names one thing they did, not the gift.

• Whoever hosted the shower, the rehearsal dinner or the brunch

  A card about the party, not a gift: one to each host household, reworded on that card alone.

  Emily Post puts anyone who hosted a party or shower for you on the thank-you list, gift or no gift.

• A guest who brought a card and nothing else

  A card for making the trip and sharing the day, with no gift mentioned, changed on that one card while the gift note stays on the rest.

  Whether such a card is owed at all is in the FAQ below.

• The photographer, the florist, the officiant

  Vendors are not on the gift list a wedding batch is built from, so they are rows you add by name, each card written for the work rather than a gift.

  Emily Post lists suppliers and vendors among the people a couple writes to; a review where they are found counts too, and a card in the mail is the one they keep.

Who writes which cards, whose name goes first and the cash, group and no-gift rules in full are in our wedding thank-you card etiquette guide.

The backs we print

Your parents, the maid of honor and the couple who flew in from Seattle each get their own words: open their card before checkout and give it its own lines, leaving the other hundred alone. For the words, see our wedding thank-you wording for every kind of gift.

No minimum and no account. How the price compares with ordering flat cards and stamping them yourself is in our comparison of where to order wedding thank-you cards; what is printed on each side is on our thank-you postcards page.