RSVP's and those who used "Number of seats reserved in your honor"

This is what I did:

I didn't. I figure (or rather hope) they just list the names of those attending and I'll figure it out.

My first line after the "please respond by {date here}" was the number of seats reserved line. Then after that I put the line to let me know names and then I put a line for will attend, will not attend respectively.

I haven't had a problem with people writing in additional people but I have only received a couple. I have had people however text me or call me to ask if additional people can come. I think you do need a line that will notify you who will or will not be attending just so you can get an accurate count. Not sure if this helps you.

You can do like this:

M ____________________

We have reserves ___ seats in your honor

__ of _3_ accepts

__ of _3_ declines

Here is mine : )

OH yeah...mine looks like Jules. I did put accepts/declines, in theory they'll write the number if 1 is a yes and 1 is a no.

I did that, but then someone turned around and said blah blah blah can't come, I am bringing blah blah instead. When told no, they were like "why, you said I had reserved seats!"

If you are concerned about what PurpleSun mentioned, you could always do something like this:

"We have reserved ___ seats in the honor of:

M______________________________

Accept/Decline

___ Number Attending"

It takes a little more effort to write in their names, but that way if they decide to bring a random guest when not expected, you can point out that the seats were reserved for specific people.

Thanks guys! SO helpful!!

I was wondering how to do this since some of my guests likes to invite everyone INCLUDING their nanny (yes for real! lol)

Do you need them to include a meal choice with your RSVP? If so this is what I did

Here's what we did!

I am totally watchlisting this post. I love all of your RSVP ideas and wordings!!!

Here's ours! Apologies for it being blurry, I just took the photo standing in the bathroom for the light, LOL! We are putting that 2 seats are reserved for most guests, and included ONLY two lines for them to write who they are and what they are eating so there is even less confusion!

Here is what ours look like.

I wrote in the names and filled in all the blanks except their acceptance or decline.

Hoping everyone will figure it out.

I wanted to do the X of seats in your honor, but fiance told me that people will feel they are locked in because we have 4 or 5 seats set aside for them. @Marie I LOVE LOVE your RSVP card. There is zero room for error, totally idiot proof :p. The color and borders are gorgeous, too.

Thanks MC - actually my current initials

I had help from the wonderful Haley from VP. She is the QUEEN.

The thought is that in order to get people to respond - make it as easy as possible... they just need to fill in either one or two numbers and throw in the mail.

We had the ___seats are reserved, and we just told them to initial next to the food option, so people added them there.

So far everyone has filled out the names of those attending. I just used "# of seats reserved in your honor" and I put lines next to the accept and decline, so if they need to change the number, they can.

This is ours.. I didn't want my guest adding extra people, so I wrote in the # that were invited and filled out their names.. Also I added a line where they can write the # of guest that would attend from the # I wrote on the RSVP.