![]() We wanted to provide some suggested wording and guidance on how to reply to a wedding invitation. I hope that these tips & tricks for wording, designing, and mailing your RSVP cards have aided you in your own wedding journey! If you have any other questions, or if you’re interested in having me design your wedding stationery, don’t hesitate to reach out to me HERE.Weddings are special and enjoyable events, however they also come with certain etiquette and expectations. Not to mention, I almost got excited when one showed up without a name because then I was able to refer to my hand-dandy numbered address list to solve who’s RSVP it was! Nerdy, I know, but also useful nonetheless! For each invitation I stuffed, I made sure to include the correctly numbered RSVP card that correlated with the number by the guest’s name on the address sheet. To this day, this trick I am going to share with you was actually some of the best wedding advice I received! One of my friends who had already been married told me to number the back of each of my RSVP cards, and respectively number all the addresses on my guest list. I had multiple RSVP cards show up without names on them some of them with “delightfully accepts” and others with “regretfully decline”. ![]() What if a guest forgets to write their name on the rsvp card? There is a long-standing rule behind this reasoning, so if you feel that you don’t have the budget to add stamps to your RSVP envelopes, you can always consider the more modern approach of having guest’s RSVP online instead!Ħ. Traditionally, if you are expecting your guests to mail back an RSVP card, you should be prepared to provide the postage to do so. ![]() Either way, you will most likely have to follow up with many wedding guests and this unfortunately is part of the process of using USPS for mailing wedding invitation items. Part of this may have been due to the fact that my address was in a white font on a dark envelope, but it also could have been due to the fact that the envelope was so small, making it extremely hard for the postal scanner to differentiate between two different addresses since they were probably similar sizes. For some reason, the scanner picked up the return address better than the mailing address (for my home) on the front. I had this happen to a couple of guests that added return address stamps to the back of the RSVP envelope. RSVP cards do mail normally even though they may feel extremely small to some people! However, be aware, if your guest adds a return address sticker to the RSVP envelope, or writes their return address on the envelope, there is small chance that the postal scanner will read the return address instead of your mailing address. Do RSVP cards mail normally? And do I need to provide a stamp? If you would rather opt for a more modern approach, you can write “Names” or “Guests” on that line instead, making it more obvious for your guests where they are supposed to add their information!ĥ. The nature of this tradition is that many guests sometimes don’t understand how to correctly fill out the RSVP card (and some people forget to add their names altogether, but I’ll cover that later on). John Smith” and then they can check off the appropriate response for accepting or declining your wedding invitation. Your guests are technically supposed to fill in the rest of the line to write their own names “ Mr. The “M” on the RSVP is the first letter of “Mr.”, “Mrs.”, “Miss”, or “Ms.”, whichever one applies to your guests. This is something I found myself wondering when I created my RSVP card a couple of years ago! I actually refrained from adding the capital “M” with the line to my design because, even though all the RSVP card examples online had it, I didn’t know what it meant! Turns out, if an envelope is addressed traditionally, it will read something along the lines of “Mr. What does the capital “M” with a line next to it mean? ![]() The rest of the blog is organized into 5 comment questions about RSVP cards, as well as my answers for them! 1. If you are a bride who has decided to use a RSVP card for her wedding invitation suite then this article is definitely for you, especially if you don’t know where to begin with your own RSVP card.
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