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Anonymous
Savvy December 2012

RSVP cards not received

Anonymous, on November 6, 2012 at 9:16 AM Posted in Planning 0 11

We invited 272 people to out wedding, and sent out the invites a month in advance of the RSVP date, which was November 1st. I only received about half of the response cards. I already started contacting some people to find out if they will be attending the wedding. I want to send emails to others, but I am not sure how I should word it. Any ideas? I have to give the final number to the hall in about a week. I was thinking that maybe some were delayed because if the hurricane, but it's now a week later and I hadly received any others.

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Latest activity by Fiona Greenberg, on November 26, 2012 at 12:06 PM
  • Desiree
    Master August 2013
    Desiree ·
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    Just let them know that you haven't received their RSVP and that you'd like to know if they're coming so you can give your final numbers to the caterer and find out their meal choice if they get a choice.

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  • Travis's Girl
    VIP October 2012
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    I also had to send out an email to most of my guests asking if they were going to be able to make it to the wedding. I just simply said that we did not receive a accept or decline rsvp from them and that we needed to have our final count in by the end of that week and that in order to accommodate everyone we needed to know if they would be joining us. It seemed to work out well for us, in a matter of 24 hours over 95 percent of the people that I sent the emails out to, responded back.

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  • Anonymous
    Savvy December 2012
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    Can I send group emails to certain people, or should I send each person an individual email? For example, I never received response cards from a group of friends that all know each other. Can I send one email to all of them?

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  • heather
    VIP April 2013
    heather ·
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    I would call them or have a family member or moh call them..but if you decide to email instead do it individually..that way not everyone else can see their reply..and ts just more personal that way.

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  • Nikki
    Devoted December 2012
    Nikki ·
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    Hello date twin!! I am having this same problem. Mine were due 11/2 and of the 214 that I sent out I was still missing 99 as of Saturday. I texted some and called others.

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  • Anonymous
    Savvy December 2012
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    Thanks everyone! My sister and aunt started making from calls for me last night and today and I have been working on emailing everyone individually.

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  • Combay
    Master April 2013
    Combay ·
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    You could blind copy folks in one email and that way none will know who else you wrote nor see that response if the person responds to all by mistake.

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  • MJ
    Master June 2013
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    I agree with the BCC. I would mass email them not FB. Hopefully a lot of them will respond by email and you wont have to make all the calls.

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  • Jamie Q.
    Master May 2013
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    Haha if this were me, I would not be all super nice- I would be like hey, my RSVP date was a week ago, yes or no or dont plan on coming!

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  • Anonymous
    Savvy December 2012
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    So we were able to get in touch with a majority of the people we did not receive RSVP's from either vie email or by phone. We are now only waiting to hear back from about 15 couples. Almost there!

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  • Fiona Greenberg
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    In my experience, you have to gauge the audience. You can send a light-hearted email to your friends, and a more 'proper' email to your family & family friends.

    We offer full control of this for our brides and its a huge hit. We completely take over control of their guest list as far as sending out invitations and keeping track of RSVP'S. Let me tell you, its stressful for us so its clearly a huge value for them.

    Usually if doing a standard email to all of the procrastinators we try not to insult them by calling them that. Instead, blame the post office. " We've had an issue with mail delivery in the past few weeks ... and we were concerned that your RSVP has not yet been recieved at this time... Please respond at your earliest convenience as we would love to count you as Attending for our special day"

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