How to include specific number invited on invitation/rsvp card

Address your invitation to those invited (i.e. Mr. and Mrs. Smith or Mr. Smith and Guest etc.).

Also, on your RSVP card, you can add a line that says _____ seats have been reserved in your honor. ______ of _______ attending and fill in the amount to give a better idea.

First, address the invitation specifically to those invited. Mr and Mrs John Smith, Mr John Smith and Miss Jane Doe. Second, on your RSVP include a line such as, "We have reserved ____ seats in your honor." You fill in the number of seats, not the guest.

View Quoted Comment Perfect! So say there is a family and we’re just sending them 1 invitation. There’s a mom, dad, 2 kids, plus 1 has a boyfriend. Could we address the envelope “The Smith Family” and just put the total number of seats they get on the RSVP card? So “ 5 seats have been reserved in your honor”

Our invites have a little line on the bottom that says "we have reserved ____ amount of seats in your honor."

View Quoted Comment This is what we are doing as well

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For this specific example, I would say "The Smith family" on the outer envelope, and on the inner envelope "The Smith Family and John Doe" (john doe being the boyfriend) so that they know specifically who the 5th seat is for. But that is what I would do personally.

I think what you said "The Smith Family" "5 seats reserved in your honor" is also fine and works great. the only reason I say to be specific is so that they don't add a +1 you don't know or like etc. It is always better to be more specific.

View Quoted Comment And then how do they tell you who is coming/how many? I should add we are doing a seating chart so I was hoping to get their names of their plus ones from the RSVP as well

If one of the children is in a relationship and you're inviting his/her spouse, I would address an invitation to them separately. The other invitation would read "The Smith Family."

As far as who is coming, they write their name in on the line that starts with M _____________ . Some RSVP cards also request initials next to meal selection if you're doing plated meals instead of a buffet.

I would also recommend numbering the RSVP cards (on the back) as some guests forget to write in who they are when sending the RSVPs back. This way, you are able to follow up with them if that does happen.

View Quoted Comment There’s also a line for them to write their names of all attending. It looks like this

tio of the card says RSVP by *date*
then a like that is the acceptance or rejection
then they list their names of all coming
rhen the bottom says we have reserved *2* seats in your honor.

Also so the invite should be addressed to those invited so if it’s only Mr and Mrs Smith then that’s it but if it says The Smith Family they will know they may only bring 5 (or however many) people.

This is our RSVP card example.

Thank you! This is so helpful!

View Quoted Comment Thank you!! Such helpful tips!!

I think I'm going to just leave a "____ number of seats," message on my RSVP cards.

This is how we're doing ours. We got oil paint Sharpies in silver and will fill in the second blank to indicate how many seats are reserved.

View Quoted Comment Love it! Thanks!!

I am personally filling in the number of guests. I don't have the room for extra people unfortunately.

In our case, we are putting..."2 spaces reserved in your honor" or however many are invited.

This is a must in my opinion. You don't want Sally from work, the person you invited as an obligation in the first place putting her husband and her 5 kids on the RSVP! It could happen...the horror of dealing with that is limited ten fold by putting the exact number on the invitation RSVP card in advance.

I wish I would've found this forum before I ordered my rsvps! I've attached what we did and now wish we would've done the ___ seats have been reserved in your honor, instead of number of guests. There are a few individuals I'm worried about thinking they can invite whoever/kids, etc... when the only child invited is our 2 year old daughter, (who will be leaving with a babysitter, promptly after dinner). It may be tacky to do to all, but I may fill in the specific amount of individuals (who invitation was addressed to) on these particular rsvps just to avoid the drama following, if they have the guts to add extra people. gahhh, so disappointed I didn't see this sooner... it would've saved me a headache for sure- such a good idea!

Hello everyone! We are trying to figure out how to add the names of the guests on the RSVP card. We were going to put " ___ numbers of seat have been reserved in your honor." but we realized people are talking about using one of those seats to bring someone we don't know. So we want to be more specific of who is invites.

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I really like yours actually!!!!!!!

Where did you make yours?