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I am currently at a 80% acceptance rate with:
Yes: 105
No: 27
No response: 72 (RSVP date was May 1st, this is unacceptable!!)
How about everyone else??
WTH, I have only gotten back like 48- I'm so annoyed! Lol. That wasn't meant to be directed at you. But seriously- what the hell? You must be so pissed because I'm trying to resist the urge to call everyone super early (since I asked for responses by June 1st) and saying just that... WTH. Why is it that people don't understand how important it is to rsvp, and to do so in a timely manner? Its not difficult peeps!
Anyhoooo, we're at:
Yes- 46
No- 2
No responses- 50
Pray that when I get home I'll have at least 5 rsvp's in the mail! And I'll pray you get 72 :)
We're at about a 75% acceptance rate - fine with me. I imagine we'll be between 150-160 when all is said and done. I might give some friends who weren't able to be invited a jingle and see if they want to join the party. :-)
Invited - 201
Yes - 94
No - 34
No Response - 72
RSVP date is Friday and they've been rolling in all week.
Haha, Jennifer! :) I am annoyed, but honestly I made my RSVP date too early by accident. It was one of those details no one would weigh in on or help me with when I had to make the decision, but now everyone's like "Why is your RSVP date so early??" Le sigh..
I keep doing mental checks on who I think might come otu of the 72 but honestly I have no idea! They are all OOT so it could go either way. I'm thinking we will end up with 130, but don't quote me!
Yes: 2
No:0
Not responded: 84
But I barely sent the invitations on Monday, May 4th, so I'm still giving them time.....and set the rsvps for May 10. So hopefully I can update this with good news soon...
@SweetAdeline - I may invite a couple extra's as well since we are going to be way under our original estimate of 180. There are two very sweet girls who were BM's with me in my best friends wedding this past August (she is now a BM for me). I know they are local and would appreciate an invite, so I'll probably invite them.
@moderndaisy- I hear ya. No one wanted to tell me what date I should do either, not because they didn't want to be helpful, it just seemed that no one knew what was appropriate. My final numbers have to be in by June 11th so if I don't get a response by then- they're not coming regardless of what their plans were! I tried to get a guestimate of how many would be making it too, and I was unsuccessful for the same reason. Even though the wedding is only 3 hours from most of the guests who haven't responded, I just don't know if they're gonna want to make the trek. I feel horrible saying this but I kinda need some people not to show! We only budgeted for 160 guests in total, if they all rsvp yes- we're screwed!
@moderndaisy - I think that's sweet. I have 2 dear friends from HS who I hadn't seen in ages. We reconnected right after we finalized the guest list and suddenly we were hanging out all the time! I was really bummed that I couldn't invite them, but they totally understood. Now that we have so much wiggle room (we were expecting closer to 175) I'm so happy I can ask them and their men. It'll make for an even more fun party.
Girls, why don't you call those people who haven't RSVP'd? No reason to have to guess and be surprised when they do/don't show up!
@Jennifer - Our RSVP date is Friday, and this last week especially we've suddenly been getting 5-7 a day. People just wait until the last minute. Don't call anyone before your date, but once it passes definitely feel free to call them up and say WTF?! haha
We are currently at
52 accepts
12 declines
Our guest list is 268, So i hope they all of a sudden start to pour in, however our guests still have 23 days :-)
@sweetadeline- Thanks! I know I'm being a lil nutty :P I'll wait until June 1st to make the calls. I actually dread calling them, it seems kinda awkward, especially if they don't plan on coming.
It shouldn't be awkward for you, @Jennifer - if they didn't want an awkward conversation they should've just sent the damn RSVP! lol
Invited 147
Yes 47
No 11
No response 89 (<--- this is too much! The deadline is in 8 days!)
We have 87 accepts, 39 declines, which is an acceptance rate of about 70%. We are still waiting on over half of our RSVPs, but the deadline isn't until May 17th. Reading all the posts here makes me feel better that hopefully I won't have to make too many phone calls on May 19th!
Invited - 280
RSVPs
Yes - 150
No - (only) 24 (ACK!!!)
But our RSVP date wasn't until May 12. And our parents have already volunteered to call all the late responders starting on the 15th.
Invited: 192
Accepted: 121
Declined: 37
Unknown: 34
So right now we're at about 77% acceptance. To be fair to the unknowns, about half of them have later RSVP dates, but the others were due May 1! I made the RSVP date early so we'd have plenty of time to deal with this type of thing. I think we're on track to have maybe around 140-150 which is good with me! I just hope we find out about the rest soon...
Invited: 153
Accepts: 109 (71%)
Declines:17
Not responded: 27
And TODAY is our deadline... looks like I'll have some phone calls/texts/emails to send.... Grrrrr! 
Yes: 25
No: 6
Still waiting on: 49
Our deadline is next week! I am freaking out...really, how hard is it to check a box andput the envelope in the mail??!! ughhh=(
Invited: 94
Accepted: 46
No: 12
Our deadline was May 1. What is with people??
Ugh, so annoying the lack of RSVPs!
We invited about 235.
Yes- 130
No- 19
No RSVP- 84
Our deadline is this Friday, I'm SO annoyed there's so many RSVPs missing...It's all FH's friends down in Miami who are notorious (typical Cubans, ha!) for being late to everything and incapable of completing any task on time...I'll be making a lot of phonecalls this weekend for sure!
Invited: 182
Yes: 115
No: 62
Unknown: 5
Rate: 66%
Our deadline was last Friday and we had about 20 that we needed to track down when all was said and done. Our wedding is semi-destination (3 hr drive for most guests to the beach) but my mom is also not close with her family and my FIs family is all out-of-country.
We invited 188 people.
Yes = 95 (89% acceptance rate... eek).
No = 12
No reply = 81
Our RSVP date is May 21, so I'm hoping a bunch more roll in before then! 43% haven't replied yet. I'm reallllly hoping for some more no's....!!
I sent my invites out on Monday so hopefully they all start pouring in next week! I am hoping for a lot more 'yes' then 'nos' but I have a (very) rough idea since I sent out STDs and lots of people have already said if they can or not...
eeek!
I just posted this in another thread! I am obsessed.
Wedding Date: June 19
RSVP deadline: May 23 (three more weeks)
Invited: 302 (269 adults and 35 children)
Accepted: 74 (61 adults and 13 children)
Declined: only 9 so far!
Haven't heard from: 219
So we only have about 25% back, but right now our acceptance rate is 88%!! FI says RSVPs are "front-loaded" with people that are sure and that people who are unsure and might not come take longer, so I'm really hoping that percentage drops down to about 65%, as I really am hoping for less than 200 people!
We invited 102 (this number includes four 'friendors')
Yes 86
No 16
We only had to chase down 5 non-responsive RSVPs but from the sounds of it, that's not so bad!
I am really not liking the Lull in RSVPS that we've gotten. We haven't seen an RSVP in 3 days :-( our date of requirement to have them back is May 28th. So they still have 22 days, However, out of 268 guests only 65 have responded, and of course it was teh ones who we already could have assumed that were coming!!!!
Anyone else feeling this!?? I get sooo excited to hurry home to see that little Pink postcard in my mailbox and get so disappointed when there aren't ANY!! AHHHH. I have a bad feeling that phone calls will have to be made to many!!!
@Trailmix - we will be making a ton of phone calls this weekend too!!
@Daniellemybelle - Your wedding is popular, congrats!! :) We are experiencing the tough reality of people we thought were 'sure things' sending in a decline almost immediately. It's sad and eye-opening!
@ashco - I am dumbfounded by the lack of RSVP's too! My Mom emails us every afternoon with what she gets in the mail and it's only max 3 responses a day. I'm like Seriously what is wrong with people?? You know if you'r ecoming, just respond!!
@moderndaisy My fiance and I were trying to figure out where these people put their invites, we were coming up with the funniest places that our invites/rsvps sit in their homes while we await a response!!! It lightened our mood a bit about not getting them back.
203 No responses yet for us is getting annoying though. with deadline still 3 weeks away, it's a lot of time, But really, i'm sure most know if they are coming or not!
@danielle I'm so confused-- why would you invite 100 more people than what you hope to actually attend? Thats such a huge gap! Is that normal? I guess that would be a 66% acceptance rate.. I just have no clue at to what a normal rate is.
@Snake - we actually invited probably 60 more than we were 'hoping' for. I know that sounds weird, but the 60 were all honestly distant relatives and family friends who HAD to get an invite, but probably won't even bother to mail back the response card. So as strange as it is, I've never counted them towards our total or 'hoped' that they would respond YES. But, that said our venue can accomodate all of them if they have a change of heart!
@moderndaisy that makes a lot of sense! Esp. with larger weddings. I just went over my guest list and although i haven't sent out the invites yet, I thought to myself I couldn't pick out one person who wouldn't come. I had never known that people invite those they know can't come. We just skipped that formality--- but i guess this way is a lot more friendly- no ones feelings get hurt!
@Snake - you hit the nail on the head. We were trying not to hurt anyone's feelings. Which is kind of ridiculous considering they won't even mail back the RSVP card.
My RSVP deadline was May 1st, and here are the stats:
225 invited
YES: 162
NO: 38
NO RESPONSE: 24 (9 responses for 24 people)
Hopefully more RSVPs in the mail today! My deadline was early, but I was afraid that my chinese family wouldn't understand that I really needed the info mailed back. (they're use to chinese banquets, where the implications of not responding are much less since food is served family style) Funny enough, my mother nagged them quite a bit, and I got almost every single chinese response by the deadline or the Monday after.
Never thought I'd be thankful for having a nagging mom!
I just sent out a mass email about a week before our (relatively early) deadline and got a lot of responses then, which was helpful.
We had a pretty high yes rate, considering over half our guests are OOT - 87%. On the other hand, our wedding is smallish so we didn't "courtesy" invite many people.
@Snake, I also invited a lot more than we plan on having come. I'm getting married in my hometown out west, but both my FI and I went to college out east and have tons of friends ALL OVER the US and some in other countries. Since its a "destination wedding" for so many people, we're going to have a MUCH higher decline rate than a wedding where the family is really close-knit and all the friends live nearby.
That being said - its a little stressful because it means there is a lot more flux with your budget - we tried to estimate how many people will come, and it honestly could be anywhere between 150-200! That is a HUGE range in cost.
I digress. Here are my numbers we invited 233 people and the RSVP deadline is May 15:
Accept: 72
Decline: 14
No RSVP yet: 147
Almost all of our RSVPs so far are people that we already knew would be attended (like the wedding party, officiant, people in town, and really close family.) That group of 147 are the people that I'm just not sure about, and I'm sure they're still figuring out if they can afford to come. I hope they figure it out soon, because our hotel block gets released on the day the RSVPs are due!
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