Our Group Organizers write some really nice emails to their Groups. I thought I’d piece together some examples of their emails. Feel free to copy/paste parts of this for your own Group invitation. Have fun!
ho! ho! ho!
DrawNames.com has just made our gift exchange a lot easier for us….
Date: December 25, 2009
Dollar limit: $
Location: Patty so graciously offered her place
Here’s how we do this:
1. Click on the link in this email to “join” the group. This is the link that you’ll use to update your wish list, so keep this email! You’ll get an email confirming that you joined the Group, with this link again.
2. After everyone has joined, you’ll get an email with the link to your drawn person’s wish list. Keep this email too, so you can view their wish list often!
3. If you want, you can anonymously send a question to the person whose gift you’re buying (i.e. what size? what color?). It might also be fun to use this to mess with your person (i.e. if you were going to buy yourself a cat, what kind would you get?). If they answer, you’ll get an email from DrawNames.com.
4. Open any emails from drawnames.com, because your person may be asking you anonymous questions too!
5. DrawNames.com is now a collaboration with www.Lootjestrekken.nl in the Netherlands, and there is a strong connection between Sinterklaas and Santa Claus (btw, did you know that this is our 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson arriving in yet-to-be NYC?). So please consider adding some really fun Dutch traditions.
Sinterklaas’ Pieten are really really good at poetry, and they attach a poem to every gift. These poems follow a special rhyme scheme – AABBCCDDEEFF etc… and even have a special kind of rhyme called “Sinterklaas rhyme” best described as “It rhymes. Sort of.” (in Sinterklaas rhyme, “rhyme” would rhyme with “fine” for instance). These rhymes either say something about the gift without revealing too much, say something about the person that is receiving it (in a funny way), or contain some kind of task description (for children this usually is singing a song, for adults it can be anything). Or they contain a combination of the above.
Also sometimes the packaging of the gift is especially creative: shaped to resemble something, with good old paper maché or other means. This is called a “surprise”, pronounced in the French way: surpreesuh.
