If your husband has a long name and goes by the short version...

btrflygrl Posted: Aug 19, 2004 04:19 PM

If your husband has a long name and goes by the short version...

do you use that for address labels??

His name is Richard, but we all call him Rich (or Richie) and his new business cards say Richie (cuz there are 2 Mitchs at his job)

Jax430 Posted: Aug 19, 2004 04:23 PM

Re: If your husband has a long name and goes by the short version...

I think you can do whatever we want. We used his longer given name (Bradley) for our thank you note address labels, but for our more casual ones, we used Jackie and Bradley.

prncssrachel Posted: Aug 19, 2004 06:00 PM

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JT is really James Timothy, but no one would know who it was if we put James Timothy. He even thought about changing it legally to JT. So it would be the shorter version.

dandj Posted: Aug 20, 2004 09:24 AM

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DH is Gerard, but NOONE calls him that, he's Jerry.... we even put Jerry on the wedding invitations because that is how is wanted it.

tourist Posted: Aug 20, 2004 10:03 AM

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we don't have shorten-able names, but my aunt & unlce are always Kathy & Jim on their address lables, ( eventhoguh my family never calls her kathy) yet my dad is always Douglas, even thoguh most people other thatn my my mother & grandmother call him doug.

I have this issue with place cards. I'm doing them casual style--no mr & mrs, but I have people that NEVER go by their full first name , like people known as Butch & Cookie, but it seems weird to put that on a palce card.