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We skipped the M line and just put Name(s), hoping that people would write their names....not sure how it will turn out, my invitations are getting put together this weekend, to send out September 1st. I numbered mine just incase.
only potential issue i can see with that is what if you are inviting two people and only one of them is coming....
We just got some RSVP's back and so far they have all been filled in correctly. Ours reads:
blah blah blah
M______________________
___ of ____ (2nd line already filled in by me) will attend
_____ will not attend
Then lists off the food.
I would maybe think of better wording then Are you Coming, maybe Yes, ___ will attend? Good luck!
@Ms. Meowerson: Than they only write one name in? Although I like the above poster's way better!
Foolproof RSVPs don't exist. We did the ___ seats have been reserved in your honor, "names" instead of "M", etc. People still wrote their uninvited children/unknown girlfriend/random dates in. You're on the right track, but basically, some people will be clueless no matter how clear you are. Don't kill yoursef over it ;-).
We did online RSVPs. NotFroofy set it up so that the person entered a code, and a screen popped up that had the names of all people invited on that invitation, and checkboxes for whether they were coming, what meal they wanted, etc.
we did
Name(s)_______________
___ seats have been reserved for your party (# already filled in)
____ Can't wait to party!
____ Sorry to miss the fun.
We still had people confused because they were not sure if when we invite them with one seat reserved for their party if that meant THEM with ONE OTHER person. good grief. you can not win.
I did not have any extra people show up on my RSVP cards (although my cousin called and asked if she could bring a friend). What I did was write in the names of the people on the M_______ line. If only one was coming, they wrote a note on the card.
i used a similar method for fool-proofing and yet .... still received at least 3 back with no names on them, several cards with "accepts" marked but they never filled out meal choice and then like every other bride had quite a few people never respond. no matter how you word it, there will be a few problems of some sort.
We did
M________________
__ of __ attending*
The second short line was filled in. So if someone had been invited with a guest but chose to come alone it'd be 1 of 2 attending.
We also numbered the back of the rsvp card tp track.
using Names instead of the M____ seems to work better because I found, and my FSIL is figuring out, that a lot of people are not writing in their names. And there are a LOT of people with the same last name, that aren't specifying their first names.
Ours said:
__Can't wait __Can't come
Who's attending?
________________________ Chicken ___ Pork ___
________________________ Chicken ___ Pork ___
________________________ Chicken ___ Pork ___
________________________ Chicken ___ Pork ___
Pre-addressed, stamped post cards.
The only problem is we're afraid people won't put a name if they're not coming, haha. So we numbered them.
we did:
__ accept __ decline
Name: __________________ | ___ Beef ___ Chicken ___ Kid's Meal
For the name+entree selection, we custom printed each RSVP. An invitation addressed to "Mr. and Mrs. X" would have an RSVP with 2 name+entree selection lines, while an invitation to "The Y family" that had 2 kids would have an RSVP with 4 name+entree selection lines. Then we stuck address labels on the back of the RSVP envelopes for people who forget to write their names down.
I think we're doing something along these lines:
Please check all that apply:
__Yes
__ Pre-filled name
__ Pre-filled name
__ Pre-filled name
will be there for sure!
__ Sorry, can't come
But our celebration will be pretty intimate so it's no hassle to custom-print each RSVP (we're just running them off our printer). I"m hoping this will be straightforward enough for folks.
just ordered ours and they'll look something like this:
Name__________________________
___accepts with pleasure
number attending___
___declines with regret
I feel like people never know what to do with the M___ and luckily i had a younger girl helping me with my invites and she said she always suggests putting "Name" instead of "M" and was totally on board with me asking for the number attending - that way - no surprises!!!!
Plus we dont have a meal selection on our response card so we had more room to play with - our venue offers table side ordering so that saved us another headache!!
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There seems to be a LOT of problems with RSVP cards being filled in correctly. The traditional M_______ seems to do nothing but confuse people.
My question is, is there a such thing as a fool proof RSVP card? Forgetting about the traditional way it's done, is there a better way to lay out your RSVP card so that more people would understand this day and age?
I thought maybe:
__ seat(s) reserved for you. (this would be already filled in when they get the card)
Your Name(s) _______________________________________________
Are you coming? (check one)__ yes__ no
And then at the bottom put something like "Please fill in this card and mail by blah blah blah" so they can't possibly not get that they are meant to fill it in and mail it to you.
Thoughts? Do you have a better way in mind? I'd love to hear it!