Personal Greetings
I am happy to send birthday greetings to Idahoans. Please send the name of the honoree or recipient, address and birthdate (or date of other occassion) via email. Please allow two to four weeks for processing. Personal Greetings can also be requested for major life events, which include the following:
- Birth of a child (sent after birth of the baby)
- Adoption of a child (sent after adoption of the child)
- Milestone birthdays (70, 75, 80, 85, 90, 95, 100 and every year thereafter)
- Veterans birthday (70 years and older)
- Weddings (sent after wedding date)
- Civil Unions (sent after ceremony date)
- Wedding anniversaries (50, 55, 60, 65, 70 and every year thereafter)
- Retirement: For civilians with 30 or more years, military with 20 or more years, and flag officers.
- Girl Scout Gold Award
- Eagle Scout Award
- Anniversaries of religious leaders (25 years and every five years thereafter)
- Anniversaries of churches (25, 50, 75 and every five years thereafter)
- Anniversaries of schools (100 and every 25 years thereafter)
- Family reunions (25 and every five years thereafter)
- Serious illness
- Condolence
Presidential Greetings can also be requested for the same life events as listed above. Such requests must be submitted five weeks prior to the date of the event unless it is noted that the greeting will be sent after the event. The White House has set some restrictions on the requests:
- Each household is only allowed one greeting request per year.
- Requests for event which occurred before January 20, 2009, will not be honored.
- In lieu of a greeting, you may request a photo for any of the events on the greetings list. You may only request one greeting or one photo per event. Please see additional information in the FAQ above regarding photo requests to the White House.
