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Since 1996, providing in home service for busy brides and grooms with their wedding stationery, if they are within an hour of Devon, Alberta. In 2009, I developed a little website as so many of my customers were requesting it and I am now able to offer more products carried by my U.S. vendors, rather than have more catalogues. Normally, if you are in the Edmonton area, you schedule an appointment with me (evening or weekend) and I bring over my 10 - 12 sample catalogues (these are suitcase sized so don't be alarmed!). I leave them with you for a day or two, at which point you can sticky note, comparison shop and select what kind of wording you would like. Then I return to take your order, advising on etiquette or any other questions you might have and accept payment. Then, in about 2 weeks, the finished products will arrive at your door, ready for you to assemble and address. Call today for your appointment!

I want my guests to respond via email, that's cool, right?

-- Absolutely not! unless you are having only work friends and are sending your invitations using Outlook Meeting, this is not the thing to do! Why, you ask?

a) Not everyone has email. Okay, what if they phone their reply? Are you prepared to be at the phone with your guest list in hand to ensure you mark down how many are coming as soon as they call? or do you think they are going to leave a message? Again, not the most advisable.

b) it is easy to mistype an email address and not have it reject, so the guest may have sent it but you may not have received it.

Case in point: A young bride thought she would eliminate having respond cards and be "more green" by having people RSVP by email. Well the font she chose on her invitation made the address confusing (a lower case "L" looks like a 1 sort of deal). Well her wedding day rolled along and twice as many people showed up than she had thought because of the confusion!! She didn't have enough seats or food for all her guests.

Reply sets have been the standard go to for centuries, for the simple reason that it is easy to file and refer to later. The envelopes come preprinted with your return address, so unless the Post Office goes sideways, 99% of your replies will come back to you. If you give your guests the can / can not attend option, and the envelope is prepaid postage (proper etiquette dictates that you put postage on them, unless they are international) there is no reason for it not to return to you. Then you can deal with them in one fell swoop. I kept mine in a shoe box as they came in, then when I had to get the numbers to the caterer, it was a matter of opening them to get the numbers. If you want to be more "Green" then select an invitation with one envelope such as the Seal N Send, where the reply card is actually a postcard the guest tears off to send back to you. Easy schmeezy lemon cheezy!

This is one of the most controversial topics I am asked about and after extensive research, I found that the Canadian Oxford Dictionary has this listed as a Western Canadian tradition! Guess where I live? Western Canada -- Yay!!! Yes, 'tis true, the Prairies ROCK!

She has the dishes and he has the tools,
But if you feel you must give us something new,
Know that a gift card to these places will do.

List some favourite restaurants, movie theatres, book stores, hardware stores, housewares, etc."

Or:

"No boxed gifts but gift cards and certificates from (List some favourite restaurants, movie theatres, book stores, hardware stores, housewares, etc.) will sure help us out down the road"

Again, don't expect everyone to like it, but those are probably the same people that don't approve of living together before marriage either...

The internet is a great resource too, so feel free to do what you want!