Returned Invitations... change of address

Unless very close friend or immediate family, I would not bother. They are off the list.

I would be afraid they will flake out, RSVP and then not come, whatever.

You should call these guests to get their correct addresses because their wedding invitations were returned and then resend asap.

This is not hard. Call and get their correct address. Who did you check the addresses with?

With them! I asked each person individually.. in a text, confirmed it in the text THEY sent.. sigh.

Were these invites sent to couples that live together but are not married? If so, did you address it to both people? I've had multiple things returned to me because of this, thankfully I had figured it out prior to mailing out invites.

Call and check. I keep getting return to sender mail from my brothers address and I know it's correct but I think he just hasn't notified usps of his change of address. Also when mailing STDs we got like 10 return to senders and ALL were written correctly. They went through the second time I sent them... same address.

Lol I had that happen and I didn't follow up. Their address was right when I sent the save the date, but not the invitation. If you can't keep me updated on when you move... Yep, I'm pretty jaded about the whole wedding process.

Did you check the envelopes to see that you had in fact addressed them correctly?

Did you place the addresses correctly on the envelope? If the return address is placed in the wrong spot, it is sometimes scanned as the "Send to" address, so it comes back to you.

Ditto. Call them and get the new address

Call them and get the new address.

Also wanted to add. Depending on your stage of life, people may be moving a lot and it's hard to remember telling everyone the new address. We had about 10 people move after STDs and before invites. I was semi paying attention on Facebook for any moving but I'm also 24 and in military and both my age and my job means I have a lot of friends who move a lot still. It really isn't very hard to send a message saying you got a return to sender and ask if it's the right address... you should have over a month until your rsvp date so that should still be enough time to resend the invite.

Edit: Shelly that's a ridiculous way to think. When you move you already have so much to think about. Remembering to tell someone your new address is not top of the list. I've moved 5 times since June 2014. The only people I told the new address to each time was my parents because it would be ridiculous to message all my friends every time I move and offer up my new address without them asking for it.

@Anna- before the world turned digital, people mailed out Change of Address cards to everyone in their address book when they moved.

In this electronic era, it so simple to send a change of address to all your contacts in one quick email.

Call and get the right address

Call each of them and let them know that you got their invites back in the mail. Verify their addresses & send them again. It can take the post office quite awhile to forward mail, also!

I'm with @Anna. I just moved last week and I still haven't updated my bank and credit card companies with my move, nevermind my friends.

I agree with all the posters who say to call- the post office can be wonky sometimes.

Maybe my etiquette game is off but why is it the guest's responsibility to follow up with the address when they move? If the STD was sent a year plus in advance, to me it goes both ways. Email your list and ask if any address changes in the last x months. I do the same with my Christmas cards every year. If I moved 10 months ago- I honestly could have forgotten

I would call them and reconfirm and just tell them that invites are going out. Maybe you could ask them to text you a confirmation when they receive their invite?

My one returned invite was completely properly addressed. I double checked it with the guest, asking him if he'd moved. (I figured I'd've seen something on the Facebook but sometimes you miss stuff!)

But no. He's lived there basically all of his life, so he KNOWS the address. I sent him a screen shot of the returned envelope and he verified it was 100% accurate.

So it was USPS, not flaky friend, at fault.

(The only thing I could think was that the "and Guest" was on the same line and they thought it was addressed to someone named Guest? I re-sent it, with the "and Guest" under his name and smaller, and it got there. Oy.)

Verify the address and look at how it was written. I had 2 come back because the post office read the 7 as a 1.

My friend tried sending me a card last year and it got returned to him twice, even though he checked with me twice. Still haven't figured that one out...

Call and get the correct address and send it out again.

We had one come back return to sender 3 weeks after we sent it out, and then didn't hear back from the guest for 2 more weeks (FH's family is flaky). Once we heard back we just asked him to tell us 1. if they'd attend, and 2. what their meal choices were. We would have sent him the invite, but by that time it was cutting it too close. We've just emailed him a copy of the invite now so that he has the address and time.