Open letter to invited guests who have not sent back their reply card
If you have been invited to someones wedding, please do not consider it an eye for an eye, an invite for an invite, simply because you invited them to your affair, doesn’t mean they have to invite you. However, they chose to invite you. They like your company, want to include you and want to celebrate their happiness with you. Keep in mind that you are unaware of their budget constraints, venue size constraints and planning issues in general. Just because someone you know is having a wedding out of town and they sent out their invitations REALLY early doesn’t give you permission to ignore the reply date and reply whenever you feel like it. Chances are, the engaged couple has lots of decisions to make and products and supplies to order for the wedding and we need a final count. Once it is two weeks after the deadline, we will assume you are not coming.
Thank you for allowing me the rant.
Now? Here are some pretty Spring time wedding bouquets.
March 15th, 2007 at 11:24 am
Lol, no kidding eh? I don’t know what it is today about people being too lazy to RSVP, but it’s a rampant problem. I’m thinking for my generation (I’m 27), my peers grew up with email and therefore anything requiring a trip to the post office is considered a major chore. For this reason, I’ll be sending out reply cards but guests will have the option of RSVP’ing by email, phone, or on our wedding website if they don’t feel like sending back the reply card. And we’ll follow up with the stragglers a couple weeks after the RSVP date. But I wish we didn’t have to babysit everyone that way. It’s called manners!