RSVP Wording

Lang125

We are just in the process of designing/making our invitations.   I was curious on how to best word the RSVP as I have seen it done so many ways and want to make sure not to sound rude, etc.  On my local board, someone recommended the below.  It is a little less formal than what I have seen with the M________________, but I am just looking for thoughts and/or suggestions.   Thank you in-advance!

We have reserved _____ seats in your honorThe favor of your reply is requested before SEPT 8 , 2012

Name(s)____________________________________ Accepts______                                                                                           Regrets______

Indicate each guest’s entrée selection with initials
___________ Chicken
___________ Beef
___________ Pasta

chelseamb11

If you wanted more formal you can replace "name" with the "M".  Ours was like this:

M____________________

__Accepts with joy
    ___meal choice
    ___meal choice
__Declines with regret

Please RSVP by May 18th 2012

MyUserName1

We did "The favor of our reply is requested by"

We also printed our own, so we put in the names unless it was an "and guest" where we did M__________

Kate61487

My only thought is that is seems a little odd to put the "we have reserved _ seats" as the very first thing.  Is that normal?  I guess I just figured it would go down by the accepts? we didn't put that on ours just:

The favor of a reply is requested by X date

M_________________________
__ accepts  number attending___
__declines

Special dietary needs____________
_____________________________

we did family style so we didn't have meal choices, but wanted to be cognizant of any allergies, and we did the number attending b/c we invited whole families and wanted to be clear if the kids were coming or not, since it's hard to fit 4 names on those lines.

tpender13

We did our RSVPs like this...

Jane Doe  Chicken__ Beef__ Declines__
John Doe  Chicken__ Beef__ Declines__

We just printed lines on the postcards and hand wrote the names. Our wedding wasn't super formal, so it worked great for us. Oh, we also wrote a quick note on the cards for the few of them where kids or vegetarian meals applied.

ccarrion77

I originally have the X number of seats have been reserved in your honor thing and was strongly warned away from it, and I have to say after seeing the logic I agree that it could be a bad move.  People could easily read it as they can pick and choose who those X number of people are.  For example if you invite an aunt and uncle but not the kids, the uncle may not come and fill in one of his kids in his place.  Just something to think about.  We decided to put Number attending: __ at the bottom so if it was more than we invited we could call.  I just think there is less chance for misinterpretation that way. Also having M________ at the top is not informal, I think I've only seen the names written in once before.