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Deirdre
Super March 2018

Anyone have lost in the mail invitations?

Deirdre, on January 25, 2018 at 12:33 AM Posted in Etiquette and Advice 0 10

We were very careful in double checking invites and save the dates. Two of our STDs got lost in the mail. My step sister who asked my step mom if she was invited to the wedding or not and one of my FH's cousins who both he and I are super close with and she helped with my shower, she actually asked at my shower that she helped put together if she was invited to the wedding or not (obviously of course they were both invited, they just didn't get their STD). I just found out today that 2 of my cousins didn't get their invites. My aunt texted me asking if her two kids were invited (they both received an STD). My cousins have a different last name than my aunt, so if some of the invites got lost, they would have been in a different section alphabetically. I double checked my invite list to the invites we had and everyone was accounted for. I'm just asking, did any other brides here have invitations that got lost. Did your family automatically assume bad intent (they were given an STD or included in other wedding activities and assume they aren't invited to the wedding, as opposed to something was lost in the mail), what was your response for bouncing back from that? I'm also now paranoid that a section of our invitations were lost, do you just wait until the RSVP date, or did you try to do follow up, just to make sure everyone got their invitation. Right now, I'm worried that every guest who has a B starting their last name (the letter that my cousins last name begins with) never got an invitation, and I'm only hearing about this through my aunt, because she would obviously be confused about her kids getting a STD, but not an invite. We've started to get some RSVPs in, but we actually haven't received any with B as the last name. It could just be that people still have 4 weeks, but it does make me nervous that more than the two were lost. I just don't want people to think they got an STD and are not invited to the wedding. Is my family the only one who goes to, oh you aren't really invited to the wedding, or do your families assume they're invited and just say to you that they think something got lost in the mail.

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Latest activity by Heather, on January 25, 2018 at 9:56 PM
  • Mary
    Dedicated June 2018
    Mary ·
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    I had several of my postcard save the dates get lost in the mail. For most of them, I found out and gave them extras by hand. It’s always a good idea to buy extras for this reason. Typically, people who were invited and did receive the STDs said something so I figured out who didn’t get it because they didn’t say anything when I saw them. Otherwise, you’ll have to wait until the RSVP deadline.
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  • Kimberly
    VIP March 2018
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    Ugh. Sorry you have to deal with that. I ordered stamps from the usps store online for our invites and rsvp's and they got lost in the mail 😂. I had to open a case to search for missing mail. They were supposed to be here the 11th but didn't get here until yesterday. I bought replacements elsewhere in the meantime and had to return them
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  • JerseyGirl
    Master May 2017
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    Mail sucks sometimes. We had an rsvp get lost on the way back to us. (8 months later and we still haven’t received it). I would just wait until your rsvp date to make life easier for you as I’m sure you have a ton of things over the next four weeks. If it’s really on your mind you can reach out but I don’t think it’s necessary.
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  • Heather
    Super April 2019
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    Why not reach out to another b and ask if they received their invite and explain why
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  • FME
    Master March 2018
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    Yes. I had two Invitations come back to me, both for wrong address "Unable to forward", One was the right address, the other one I forgot to put "North" on it. The one with the right address I just stuck back in the mail and they got it two days later. Who knows what happened with that.

    One guest out of state never got her invitation, it never came back to me either so I have no idea what happened. I resent a new one (TIP: Order extra invitations) and she got it a few days later. I didn't want to annoy guests to see if they got there's before the RSVP date, so I just picked two other out of state couples (that would need time for airfare) and casually brought it up to them, and they got it. So, I'm just waiting until the RSVP date to see!

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  • Kelly
    Devoted March 2018
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    I had one get mailed to us as the recipient and three others returned due to some issue with the address. The ones that were returned came back at least a couple weeks after they were sent. I haven't had anyone ask about their invitation yet so I assume everyone else get theirs. Right now I'm just annoyed by all the responses of "what if we lost the RSVP". I mean seriously people!!

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  • WED18
    July 1993
    WED18 ·
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    I pick up the mail for my office every day. I literally receive 3-5 pieces of mail weekly that do not belong to us, so I can only imagine how many of our letters get lost or delayed for the same reason. Unfortunately our mail system is not completely reliable.

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  • Yoomie
    VIP October 2018
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    We too had a few incidences with the STDs. Luckily, we emailed out electric STD a week prior to mailing out the hard copies. Between those two methods, everyone got the message. Unfortunately, the same cannot be done with the invitations. Those, I'm going to have to rely on our mail system.
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  • Heather
    Super April 2019
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    I had someone mail me a check for an item almost 5 years ago. I never received it she never got it back the check was obviously never cashed. About a month ago she sent me a pm she had just receive back to her.
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