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Keeping RSVP's

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    tessabella76    September 12, 2009   Ohio

    Is anyone keeping their RSVP's? Mine are starting to trickle in and I have a spreadsheet to keep track of them. But I don't want the just throw them away!

     
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    kara    September 26, 2009   Northern VA/Cincinnati OH

    I'm keeping mine in a box at least until after the wedding in case any issues come up!

     
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    Gilneas    October 10, 2010   NJ

    I hoard EVERYTHING, so if I had paper RSVPs, I'd totally keep them.  You can put them into an album later, if you want, or just tuck them into a box and keep them with other wedding stuff :)

     
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    mary-alice-me    May 24, 2009   Kentucky

    I kept mine. I have a box with the RSVPs, cards that came with wedding gifts, etc. At some point I'll probably go through it and toss some out, but not yet. Of course, I kept track of the replies on a spreadsheet but I wanted to keep the paper too, just to have the notes.

    I don't know if I would have kept ALL of them if I'd had a big wedding. In my case I'm talking about 40 reply cards.

     
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    KateMW    8.30.03   Birmingham

    I'll probably keep them. They're too pretty not to!

     
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    Jessie516    May 16, 2009   Ann Arbor, MI

    I kept ours.  I was logging them into a spreadsheet, like you, but I just couldn't part with the RSVP cards.  People wrote some really sweet things on them, so I liked looking at them.  Right now, they're in what I've marked as "The Wedding Box" in our storage closet--with centerpiece leftovers, linens, and other miscellaneous stuff leftover from the wedding.  I'm not sure what I'll do with them...

     
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    Lexatron    September 6th, 2009   Missoula, MT

    I've been hanging on to mine, but I hadn't given any thought to what we should do with them after the wedding!  Hmmm...

     
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    maryjane    September 9, 2009   Grand Forks, ND

    could you make a scrapbook or a box with them, and the cards you get for your wedding? it'd be cute!

     
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    nomerstoo    May 9, 2009   Chicago, IL

    Nope. I recycled mine after the wedding. Nobody really wrote anything sweet or nice on mine, and I had no sentimental ties to them.

    But I guess you could scrapbook them or put in an album if you do keep them.

     
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    TallBride    January 24 2009   Westlake Village, Ca

    Kept mine until after the wedding then bye bye into the recycling container

     
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    sminerva21    September 26, 2009   Chicago, IL/wedding in Upstate, NY

    We did postcard RSVPs and had a section on the back for guests to write notes. We're keeping all ours until the wedding is over, and then after the wedding, keeping the ones where people wrote nice notes, and putting them in a scrapbook.

     
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    tessabella76    September 12, 2009   Ohio

    Maybe I'll just keep the one's that people write little notes on. I'm torn between being sentemental and trying to declutter my life!

     
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    spaniel    March 2010   Los Angeles, CA

    I'm definitely keeping mine and putting them into an album. :)

     
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    chelseamorning    November 1, 2008   Washington, DC/Atlanta

    Mine went to my mom's house. I've no idea where they are or what happened to them! Frankly I don't miss them too much. I don't think many people wrote on them, just checked coming or not. I have a bunch of extra blank ones for keepsakes.

    I say, if they have special notes or memories on them, keep them. Otherwise, a sample of them might be better to keep if you keep them at all. Even a scrapbook doesn't need 80 cards with checkmarks and nothing else on them!

     
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    Bridebella    October 17, 2009   Knoxville, TN

    I hadn't even thought of that! But since I'm saving all my other wedding stuff, or at least samples of the invite and program, I imagine I'll keep the RSVPS and work into a scrapbook of some kind...maybe just an envelope of all of them in case I ever have the desire to look through them.

     
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    RoddyBride09    September 5, 2009   Bethlehem, PA

    I'm a hoarder too. I will keep them until at least the wedding.

     
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    budgetbeautiful    9/26/09   Fredericksburg, VA

    I don't think I can part with them, not at least right now. I'll obviously keep all the yes's until I do the escort cards, but I'm holding on to the no's at least until I decide which ones I want to put in the wedding scrapbook, some people wrote nice things on the cards.

     
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    mrsmike    8/9/09  

    I've kept mine and I plan on making a mini scrapbook with them - on the reverse of the RSVP put a picture of that guest at our wedding, the silly pics that will never make it into our album.  What a fun remembrance it will be!

     

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