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Just Said Yes November 2021

Help please! Bride asked for my address to send invitation but i haven’t received anything?

Christina, on February 20, 2023 at 9:28 PM Posted in Etiquette and Advice 0 7
Hi! My husband and I got married in 2021, my cousin and his fiancé were in attendance and following the wedding she reached out for wedding planning advice and recommendations. They ended up booking our videographer and she also reached out for our mailing address and said we would be getting a save the date and invitation. Their wedding is in May and we haven’t received anything. Im genuinely so happy for them and don’t want to make anything awkward but is it rude to ask? I am only worried because the wedding is in a different city and we will need to plan. I know it’s still a little early for invitations to be sent. So should I just let it go or reach out to her? We had a couple of friends not attend our wedding because they thought they weren’t invited and their wedding invitations were returned to us by USPS. I don’t want her to feel like we are blowing them off but I also don’t want to assume we are invited? Help please!

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Latest activity by Mayene, on February 28, 2023 at 7:47 PM
  • Erin
    Super May 2022
    Erin ·
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    Have you tried Googling to see if they have a wedding website where they are taking online RSVPs? That would be the first thing I do when trying to figure out if it got lost in the mail. The Knot and WeddingWire have “Search a Couple” on both of their sites. I’d suggest starting there as it’s very common these days for couples to create websites for their weddings.
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  • Christina
    Just Said Yes November 2021
    Christina ·
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    Yeah they don’t have online rsvps :/
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  • Bird
    Super June 2021
    Bird ·
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    Maybe you can ask her if she has any more questions about the wedding planning process (she asked you before?). Maybe that could spark the conversation?
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    Why don't you call to catch up? Ask her how wedding planning is going. If you're off the list, she never sent STDs or anything major has changed I would think she'd get the hint and let you know. But being that she asked for your address and told you to expect a save the date, I don't think there's anything wrong with asking more directly, especially if it's important to book accommodations early etc. It could easily be that the STD was lost in the mail.

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  • Christina
    Just Said Yes November 2021
    Christina ·
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    Thank you!
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  • K
    Super September 2023
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    One of our STDs got lost in the mail and returned to us a full six weeks after they’d been sent out! This was over the holidays so maybe that contributed to the delay, but I can’t imagine where that envelope was in all that time. And after we got it, we confirmed with the couple that their envelope was properly addressed, so it’s a huge mystery what happened. All of that is just to say that if your STD got lost in the mail, it could definitely still be floating around out there even if it’s way past time when you would expect a STD.
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  • Mayene
    Dedicated March 2023
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    We sent our invitations 3 months ahead of time (December for a March wedding), to give people enough time to plan for travel, but I've also received invitations for weddings within a month of the wedding (even after having got a save the date far in advance).

    I would wait at least 2 months before the expected wedding month before freaking out over it, as I assume some people don't want to send them out too early in case anything happens (people forget, they can't RSVP until closer to the date because they have to figure out scheduling and travel plan possibilities).

    We had a couple invitations returned but also we started reaching out to people about RSVPs about 1.5 months after we sent out the invitations, then we found out some people never received an invitation (wrong address or other), but they never asked us about it until we were hunting down RSVPs. So hopefully the couple tries to hunt down pending RSVPs!

    I think things happen and it's easy to get caught up in the rush of things. If she said you would be getting a save the date and invitation, I don't think it would be rude to ask about saving the date; you could frame it in a way like "Some things might be coming up in the next few months and we want to be able to celebrate your wedding with you. Will you be sending out save the dates so we can block your wedding weekend out on our calendar?" or something like that so you can get the date in case they haven't sent anything out yet.

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