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Just Said Yes October 2019

Invites lost in the mail?

Julie, on July 16, 2019 at 3:31 PM Posted in Etiquette and Advice 0 6
We sent our wedding invites out last week, and most of our family across the country has gotten theirs. We have heard from one family member that they have yet to receive their invite yet, even though the other family in their area got theirs days prior. We’ve also heard from a local friend that they hadn’t received theirs either! This made my FH and I worried, because we’re not sure if other people haven’t received theirs as well. Our invite links guests to our wedding invite for details and RSVP, and since I’m using Squarespace, I can see IP addresses of who has visited the website, and what city they are in. So far we don’t have as many site visitors as we would have thought, so we’re starting to think that there may be more missing invites than just those two...

So here’s my question. We’re a casual crowd, and we were thinking we could wait a couple weeks (our RSVP deadline is in 3 weeks), and send out a text to some friends we haven’t heard from yet saying something like “We’ve gotten word that some guests never got their invite in the mail, so we’re just checking in to make sure you got yours!” Would you be put off if you got a text like this? Would you just wait until the RSVP deadline and then start hunting people down? We just don’t want to hurt any feelings by people thinking they weren’t invited, when really their invites just got lost in the mail.

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Latest activity by Michelle, on July 17, 2019 at 3:23 PM
  • MrsD
    Legend July 2019
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    I think more than 50% of your guests won't visit your website unfortunately, that's just how it is. I would wait another week or two and check back in with the guests who told you they haven't gotten theirs yet. Ours took 2 full weeks before everyone got theirs.

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  • J
    Just Said Yes October 2019
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    Thanks for the insight! It’s relieving to know that 2 weeks is a normal time for postage. I sure hope everyone visits the site though - the invite doesn’t have the venue address and online is the only RSVP option! So hopefully guests will be prompted to go on their at least for that info.
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  • MrsD
    Legend July 2019
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    Yeah you hope they will! I've just heard & in my experience, they don't haha

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  • Mcskipper
    Master July 2018
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    I’d wait at least a full week to see if the ones that you know are “missing” show up, either to the recipients, or back to you with a ‘return to sender’ issue. If after then they’re still MIA, I’d reach out to a couple people with that message as a bit of a sampling to see if more people didn’t get them , and if more people didn’t, start seriously reaching out. I don’t think there’s anything off-putting about the phrasing you have here. It doesn’t feel like it’s a pushy passive aggressive “hey! Rsvp!” type message, which is the only thing I’d worry about/ try to avoid
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  • Mcskipper
    Master July 2018
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    Even if they do go on the website eventually, I do agree that tracking the IPs is not a good barometer for determining whether people received invites or not— even though I do typically always visit peoples’ wedding websites, I certainly rarely (if ever) do it immediately upon receipt of the invite. It’s typically something I do a couple weeks later!
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  • Michelle
    Super August 2019
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    We had 2 people that we definitely know didn't receive theirs. Our RSVPs aren't due until this Friday so we aren't going to reach out just yet. We're waiting until the end of next week to do that just in case they did get them and are late sending it back. We don't want people to feel like we are pestering them. This still gives us 2 weeks to get any stragglers before final head count is due.
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