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___________________________
____ accepts with pleasure
____ declines with regret
____ number in party
Just don't put the M. You don't have to be so blunt to spell out name, but have a line to write names, definitely.
Instead of the M____ line, print out their names. That way it is clear to them who is invited and clear to you if/when they decide to return the card as to whom it is from. However that only works if you are printing your own as catalog invites do not offer any options of the sort.
If you do decide to have a line for people to write in their own names, make sure that it says 'Name" at the beginning because you would be surprised at the number of people who cannot figure out simple instructions. Most folks are not that bad but you have prepare for the worst.
Yeah, we aren't going to print the names individually since this is all going to be letterpressed.
I also am 100% prepared for no one to know how to do anything correctly. Hell, before I entered the wedding world, I was clueless about so much of this stuff!
what if underneath "accepts" you just put "___ of ___ attending"? I think that's what we're doing
I did mine like this, because I need to give FULL names of EVERY guest to our venue, so if somebody's bringing a random date, I need them to tell me their name, and it won't work if I invite a family of 5, and they just tell me 3/5 are coming. The lines under accecpt/deline are check boxes.
Respond
Kindly reply by the blah of blah
(Full name) accepts declines
_______________ _____ _____
_______________ _____ _____
_______________ _____ _____
_______________ _____ _____
I'm hoping people will get it...
We're also going the "____ of _____ attending" and writing in how many people are invited. It will take more time on our part, but hopefully it will make it make more sense. :)
Ours has a line on the bottom that reads:
Entree preference
meat________________ vegetarian_________________
The plan is for people to put the number of meals they need for each.
We are also doing the M line even though there are plenty of doctors attending. I don't know any of them who would care, so unless you have surgeons attending (who are notorious for being prissy about their titles) I wouldn't worry about it.
I did mine all sneaky. My hope is that the menu options will be like, "2 Cow, 1 Chicken, 1 Veggie". That should tell me that there are 4 people, if people are smart.
You could handwrite/calligraph the names on your response cards? That could get pricey/time-consuming, though...
@silverbrook: i LOVE your kids option for the menu card. I used blocks in my mockup and no one knows what they mean!!
I tried not to leave any wiggle room on my RSVP cards at all.
It might have been a bit "wordy" but It worked great and there was really no confusion on who was coming who they were bringing and what they wanted to eat. I had invited people with both young and Really young children. Also my venue charged an automatic "drink" charge for each adult meal (meaning I had to pay for the open bar for each regular adult meal). Thats why I wanted to be sure I knew if young kids were attending.
Mine looked something like this:
Please respond on or before
June 20, 2009
Please list all guests full names below (use back for more space)
________________________________________
_____ Accepts _____ Regrets
Number of guest attending that are vegetarians _____
Number of children 12 years old or younger _____
Young children that do not need a meal provided _____
Do you need a highchair? ____
Here's what I decided to do for mine . . . I'm going to write in the guests' names. If they bring a "substitute" guest (if it's Mr & Mrs), without changing the names, their escort card will just be wrong. If guests get "added," then who ever has invited that person gets to call and say no plus one or children (I'm more concerned about children). The only children I'm having are the wedding party and nieces/nephews and children of of first cousins (who are traveling half way across the country for the wedding). I'm going to either include a note or conact those parents personally to see if they need high chairs or kids' meals. Oh, and I have a feeling I know who the vegetarians are that do not eat meat and will contact them separately too.
No matter how the card is set up, someone is going to forget to write their name on the card. It's like in elementary school when you turn in your homework and 9 times out of 10, someone leaves their name off and the teacher has to scramble to find out who it was.
My advice is to number the backs of the cards and have a list at home with which card was sent to which person. Then if a blank one comes back in, you can check your list to find out who's response it is. Also, you can always follow up with people if it's unclear how many people are attending or which 3 of the 5 family members, etc. :-)
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Hokay so. I've been obsessing for about a week and a half over the response card wording. We're going the more traditional route wording-wise, as our wedding is formal, but the design is a little different. Anyway, moot point.
I would like to traditionally word the response cards, and my mother wants nothing that borders on "cutesy." (Sad day). What I'd like to do is not give people any wiggle room as far as keeping us out of the loop. I don't want a simple...
M__________
accepts___
regrets___
The favour of your reply by blah blah blah.
This leaves too much room for people (i.e. tons of family members) to not let us know who's coming. For instance, if we're inviting a five-person group, but in all reality only 2 will come, I don't want to pay for all 5 people to eat. I gots other people to fill those slots, yo. How does one go about this without being crazy wordy? I just want to know who's coming, and how many are in the party. That's all.
Because we have a fair number of M.D.s/Ph.D.s coming, my mother wants to nix the "M" part of the RSVP. She's suggesting...
Please respond by
May whenever
Name_____________________
Will attend____
Not able to attend____
Number attending ____
That just feels so wordy and bleh. So yeah, help! :)