Re: Guest Lists - Help
on RSVP cards, i've seen the following:
Please respond by the whatever date of whatever month, whatever year
M__________ will be / will not be attending
We have reserved ____ seats for you at our reception
so then in the reserved line, you would hand-write the number of people invited from that family.
and since you dont need to give final numbers in usually until a 1-2 weeks before the wedding, you can call them up and ask them if they plan on attending if they haven't rsvp'd and you can use that call to reinstate your invitation, i.e. we'd love for you and uncle jay to be there... can you please tell me if the two of you will be coming?
inevitably though there will be people who will say they are coming but won't show up... there's not much you can do about that, unfortunately. we had one family in particular who kept insisting they'd come and of course, didn't show up, which really pissed me off because given the smaller size of our wedding, we'd have loved to have other people instead of them, if only they'd been honest with us and just said sorry we can't make it. stupid people. grrr....