Online RSVP vs RSVP cards

Good luck. I did online RSVP for my engagement party and it was a nightmare.

We're going for online RSVP.

Where I'm from, people don't generally do RSVP cards - guests normally call the couple/parents, so neither side would be familiar with the cards. We're also offering multiple choices per course so online was the best way of going about that (and minimising folk trying to add people on)

If folk aren't comfortable with it, they'll probably default to what they know (call us)

We did online RSVPs for about half of our guests and traditional cards for the others. We got a much better response from the online crowd. In fact, some people who got cards ended up just going online (we set everyone up in the system). I think we would have had to chase down so many more had we done all cards - and it saved us a good chunk of cash. I have no regrets.

I am doing actual physical RSVP card for them to mail back, most of my family is super old fashioned and half don't even know how to use a computer

I did physical cards but gave website option also. So far only one person has used online.

I actually just RSVP'd to a wedding 10 minutes ago that was online only. That wouldn't fly in my family. I plan on giving the option for both. I know my friends will be fine with online-- but my older guests, not so much. I don't want to make it unnecessarily difficult for them.

ETA: know your crowd--- if I had a tech-saavy crowd, I would totally do online-only!

I have three ways to respond. Iur website, email or call/text.

I am doing online and I have had no problems with it at all! Even my grandparents were able to figure it out

Personally, I like the convenience of online for both myself and for my guests. I have more than 50% of RSVPs in and my deadline is still a month away.

We used online RSVPs, through our wedding website. We included an information card, with our invitations. We received 248 of 250 invited guest responses 10 days before our due date. A win-win situation!

P.S. My 90 year old grandmother uses the internet, on a daily basis.

We did text/cell phone number rsvp. I was able to put both the reception info and the rsvp info in the lower lefthand corner of my invite. I got responses from every single one within 2 weeks of sending the invite, which allowed me to invite 4 extra friends because 4 of the original list declined. We are only having 40 people though. Im glad I didnt waste themoney on extra cardsand rsvp postage. Maybe do both electronic and text/cell?

I like having the option to call or do it online - good idea! I think most of the crowd is text savvy, but there may be a few older people who don't want to do it online. Ultimately I just want a 100% RSVP rate!!! I don't want them all to come. I just want them all the respond, haha. Thanks ladies!

We had only online RSVPs. Only one guest (who was in his late 70s) couldn't figure it out. It wrote to a Google spreadsheet, which was a huge convenience for us. We could see at a glance how many yeses and noes we had, and how many still hadn't sent an RSVP. There was no possibility of people sending back RSVP cards without their names on them (which has happened to more people than I can count around here). The way it was set up, no one could RSVP for more people than were invited (another thing that happens frequently with paper RSVPs). And of course, it saved us having to get return envelopes and pay for postage for them.

I want to have the excitement of opening the mail box and seeing those little cards. On the other hand I think most people would respond quicker with an online option. If I do online the older generation will get the standard rsvp.

We sent out 110 invited, with the option to RSVP with the card, or online. We received one RSVP online, and the rest with the traditional card

We used RSVP cards, but we also had a wedding website and allowed people to RSVP there too. Worked out well for us!

We're planning in doing online RSVPs for all the pros mentioned: convenience, cost savings, guest control. our tech savvy crowd will be into it as well.

For those that including that info on an information card, how did you word it?

I'm currently toying with:

DETAILS

for additional wedding information

and to RSVP by march 1

please visit our website

www.weddingwire.com/url

Other ideas?

I set up online RSVP through the wedding website and included an insert with my invitation that doubled as a response card. With snail mail, our wedding email, our wedding website, and a Google voice number we set up, we had many options for our guests. Just sent out invites last week and received 32 responses on our website already. Most of my older relatives are either tech savvy enough or have children that can do it for them.

As a 'modern' guest, I LOVE online RSVPs. I always forget to mail the posted RSVP. I think about it EVERY day and then the day it's due I feel horrible (I know, I know, bad etiquette. It's not purposeful, I swear!!). Whereas when I get an online, I sit right then and fill it out and don't think about it again!!

We are doing mostly online with the option of mailing for a few of the older crowd.

FH and I have already begun discussing this even though our wedding is still pretty far out (we've been working on our wedding website and there's an option for online RSVP and we needed to decide so we could include the link on the STDs). We're going to be doing online RSVP because it was so much easier for us as guests of a wedding we attended last year. We will probably have a handful of traditional RSVP cards go out to the older, less tech-savvy generation. Plus, we'll be saving so much on stamps

@Jessica - our information insert card was like this

Your response is requested by XXX xth:

our wedding website address

Please let us know your entrée preference:

3 entrees listed

Late responses and dietary requests:

Our gmail address (Set-up just for the wedding. That's where we received notices from the website RSVPs, too).

We're guessing that line about later responses really moved people to respond quickly. We probably wouldn't have been able to accommodate a large number of late responses, as we had to order tablecloths, chair covers, and centerpieces a few weeks before the venue needed the final number for food.