Gathering RSVPs from your wedding guests is such an exciting part of wedding planning. You can begin to envision the day and the friends and family that surround you. Traditionally, guests RSVP to your wedding on a response card. Today, this can be done on a traditional card, or online.
A traditional response card is a piece of stationery included with your wedding invitation. The response card is sent in the invitation with its own envelope, which is addressed and pre-stamped by the sender usually the couple.
Recipients then fill out the response cards with their names and meal choices, if applicable, and mail it back to the sender. This is how couples have tracked who is attending the wedding for many, many years but now couples have the option to use an online RSVP service.
Anyone can use an online RSVP service. These services are often offered as part of a couple's wedding website for free. We understand this seems like a slightly antiquated practice but such is tradition. Jameson Fillmore. This is also how you would fill it out as an unmarried couple, except the woman would use Ms.
Miss refers to an unmarried woman but Ms. Featured product: Wedded Bliss Respond Card. If the response card does not include food choices, your job is pretty easy. You will simply state the number of people attending or not attending. The guest that is accepting would fill in the blank line with their title as well as their first and last name. And remember, you can also write a note on the backside of the RSVP card for clarity. Featured product: Blossoming Respond Card.
But our best advice is to reply as soon as possible after receiving the wedding invitations. Remember - as the wedding date gets closer, couples are often creating what can be a very complicated seating plan and confirming head count with vendors. Give them as much time as possible to adjust it as necessary. Everyone likes options, and realistically, the more ways your guests can say yes or no to the wedding, the better for you, right?
While mail-in cards are still the traditional choice, not everyone uses the mail as they once did, points out event planning expert Sandy Hammer, co-founder of AllSeated. List a phone number, email address, or wedding website guests can also RSVP at on your invites to boost your response rate.
According to Keel, oftentimes guests don't really know what RSVP means, nor do they understand that a response is needed, even if they are declining the invitation.
It's a surefire way to increase your response rate and can act as a friendly reminder to guests that the wedding is fast approaching, notes Florida-based wedding planner Aviva Samuels of Kiss The Planner.
If just staying in touch isn't enough, you can use a heavier hand and bring the wedding up. While you don't have to actually bring up the wedding RSVP deadline, you can casually mention in conversation how much you're hoping they'll be able to come. They'll be flattered and it will further remind them that they need to check their schedule and give you an answer.
Because destination weddings require arranging flights and accommodations, there's a different RSVP timeline. RSVPs should be due two months before the wedding, and the wedding invitations should be sent out approximately four months before the wedding.
This will give guests ample time to make travel plans if they didn't when they first received your save-the-date. With a destination wedding, you'll be glad you have an early RSVP deadline because then you'll have plenty of buffer time to make sure every guest is accounted for, as well as get a sense of when people will be arriving and departing so you can plan pre- and post-wedding events accordingly.
It might seem obvious, but make sure the RSVP date is in an extremely legible font. Your Privacy Rights. To change or withdraw your consent choices for Brides.
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