Tuesday Tip – Wedding RSVP’s

Alright alright, I know I am a wedding photographer – Not a planner.  Not a stationary designer.  (although, if you are looking for either, check out these lists here and here to find yourselves the best of the best!).

But, just take a moment to over look that simple fact and let me give you  little piece of advice regarding your invitations and RSVP cards.

When I was planning my wedding, I found one of the most daunting tasks to be collecting addresses for everyone I wanted to send an invite too.  I mean, who really has an address book of physical addresses laying around anymore?  Not me!  Although, I have a lot more now after going through this tedious task!

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So, once I spent all of my time collecting addresses, addressing envelopes and assembling invitations, I trekked all 150 invites to the post office and paid TRIPLE what I was expecting to!  (side bar: square envelopes cost more to mail than their rectangular counterparts.)

But now was the exciting part: waiting for all of my carefully designed RSVP cards to come back to me in the mail!  Ahh!!  All was glorious.  Instead of my mailbox being filled with bills and advertisements to the local pizza joint, it was now filled with love from all of our friends and family who wanted to come celebrate this special day with us.

Only, some of my treasured guests DIDN’T PUT THIER NAME ON THEIR RSVP CARD!

That tiny little line, M__________________, was supposed to be for their name.  And instead, it was blank.  Completely empty.

Now Bill and might have been left scratching our heads trying out best to channel the CIA director and decipher the  cryptic  X on the invitation to see if we could pinpoint exactly which relative, or at least what side of the family, this RSVP came from.

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However, I somehow had a stroke of genius and decided to number each and every RSVP card I had sent out.  Ta-da!  I wrote the numbers in pencil on the inside of the RSVP envelope.  No one even knew they were there!  Of course, each of these numbers also corresponded to my guest list, so when the mysterious RSVP envelope showed up in my mailbox, I didn’t have to break out in a cold sweat.  Instead, I was able to calmly match the number from the RSVP to my envelope and know that Great Aunt Gertrude will absolutely be there to celebrate our wedding day!   Crisis averted!

Now, in the grand scheme of things, is not knowing who sent back that RSVP a big deal?  No.  But, it did save me from a few awkward phone calls trying to figure out if Aunt Gertrude lost the RSVP card in her precariously stacked pile of papers or if she actually remembered to drop it in the mailbox last week.

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So that, my friends, is my Tuesday Tip for you!  If you’d like some more wedding tips, be sure to hang around the blog and take a look around!!

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