Invitation return address

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I would use your name if you're the one who will be dealing with the RSVPs as they arrive.

View Quoted Comment Luckily, I won’t have to deal with RSVPs. They are on our website.

I say put it in your name to avoid any frustration or anger from either parent. Especially if the RSVPs go directly to the website. You can get preface return stamps free if you get label paper for your printer! Hope this helps!!

Typically you would use your own address.

View Quoted Comment That’s a great idea. I didn’t even think of it. Thank you so much!

Have them sent to your name at her address. It has traditionally been fairly common for some family ir friend to take on handling rsvp logging , when the parents or couple hosting are away, very busy with work or wedding, and such. I just did invitations and rsvp duties for a friend with a severe visual impairment, whose groom was finishing a grad degree an ocean away. My name and address on rsvp. My mom handled ours, because she was home after leg surgery for the right 6 weeks, and we were both working 60-70 hr weeks up til 3 weeks before the wedding. People just assume someone other than the host named on the invitation is taking on the secretarial duties. I have responded to office, family, and actual social or personal secretaries, and a few times to wedding planners. . . These days, people assume the bride and groom are co-hosts in planning, even if named hosts like parents are on the invitation.

I think that in order to avoid any issues with your parents maybe just put your address!

Have the return address be to whoever will handle and sort out returned mail. If you don’t want your parents to shoulder that responsibility, use your own address. Using your address is also helpful if someone wants to send you something !

We are using our own address as the return address even though are invites state both set of parents as hosts. Since you are the one dealing with the invites/RSVPs it would make it easier on you for all the RSVPs be directly sent to you instead of always having to go to somewhere else to pick them up.

Personally I went with not putting anything about the parents on our invitations for a similar reason. So the return address on mine is my name and my fiancees name with my address on it. (I currently live with my parents.)

You could always talk to your dad about it and see if he has a preference. If he doesn't mind then you can use your stamp with your moms name. But if I was you I would just put your name on it.

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What did you end up using for the return address, Natalie?