RSVP Ettiquette Help

sflores916

My fiance and I have realized that our wedding is going to be OVER 250 people!!! We want to make sue we don't go overboard and therefore want to limit the guest count on each invite. In addition we want to know how many child plates to order as they are half price of the adult charge. This is what I came up with. Any suggestions to changes of the wording or comments? Thanks!!!     WE HAVE RESERVED _____ SEATS IN YOUR HONOUR Name___________                              accepts with pleasure _____ NUMBER ATTENDING _____ ADULT DINNER _____ CHILD DINNER declines with regret

wadingmoose

With that, you open yourself up to "Oh, my husband can't come, so I'll bring my best friend instead!  You did reserve two seats for us."I'd skip that part, honestly.  Simply address the invitation to the person/people invited.

lauralaur

I would put the declines below the accepts and change them to "accepts" and "regrets" only. I think I would skip the "Adult Dinner" line and instead of the "Child Dinner" line write "Please indicate the number of children's meals required ___". Just my two cents.

lauralaur

Holy font, Batman! Can anyone even read this?

shawna77inil

We put the names of the people that were invited on the invite.  On the RSVP card we put adults attending, children attending, unable to attend with a line behind each.  We have only had one person that was unable to figure out this system.  It was my uncle, and he thought he could invite everyone in the free world.  Other than that, people with kids have included their kids and people without have just put themselves.  It worked perfectly for us.  (with the exception of said clueless uncle... and that was an entire debate that was discussed earlier)

wadingmoose

I can Laura.  It looks normal to me.

lauralaur

Really? Everyone's responses, siggies, etc. are in the same font as the "PAN" in the op on my computer. It all looks very pretty but it's terribly hard to read.

ootmother2

Love this script but how did you manage to spell etiquette incorrectly when it's right in front of you?

scoetto

Super curly font and more than one line hurts my eyes.

anna.oskar

Wow!  I can't read a darn thing in this thread.

banana468

Ditto PPs.  The # of seats reserved in your honour can backfire bigtime since it opens the door for lots of substitutions.  If you're going for a write in style, write in each guest's name with __accepts or __declines after the guest's name.And please just use 'accepts' or 'declines' the 'with pleasure' or 'with regret' is presumptuous.

katiewhompus

I'm assuming that the venue/caterers will take care of the adult dinner/child dinner as they normally have an age cut-off. If you need to limit guests I would suggest (as have pp's) writing the actual name of the people invited.I just didMrs. Jane DoeAccepts __  Regrets __Mr. John SmithAccepts __ Regrets_I made one rsvp card with 2 lines, 1 rsvp card with one line (for parties of 3 or 5). The kids really got a kick out of having their name written on the rsvp card and we had no surprise guests show up.

tlv204

Weird, the fonts are totally normal to me.  Hmm.