Response Card Wording....

divadancer11

Since we are not inviting kids we dont want the "Adult Only" on the invite and want to go the route on the response card where is states......

X Seats have been reserved in your honor

Now how should the rest of the card be worded? I have looked through all of our invite books and online and cannot find a template or sample.

Would it be:

__ are attending
__ are not attending

Please help!

AdeleDazeem

Whoever the invitation is addressed to states who is invited.  It would be improper to write "adult only" on the invitation anyway.

If anyone does reply with kids, just call and explain.

We wrote the M_________________ (which I hate) and followed it with "accepts with pleasure" or "declines with regret."

J&K10910

I handwrote all the invited people's names on the cards.  We had different cards with different numbers of lines printed.

So our cards would look like this:

__________________________________________
__accepts  __declines
__pork       __chicken

__________________________________________
__accepts  __declines
__pork       __chicken


for two people on the invite, and I wrote their names on the line.  For three people, there would be three lines, etc.

That's a more time and effort intensive way to do it, but we did not have a single person that RSVPed for someone that wasn't invited.  And I also didn't have to number them or worry that I'd get one back and not know who it was for because they didn't write their names or something.

Kate61487

I think the typical:

M________________________________
 __ accepts with pleasure
 __ declines with regret

would still work.

divadancer11

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_etiquette_response-card-wording-7?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding BoardsForum:9Discussion:773940aa-ada9-4d5b-bcd6-b6f38600d4b3Post:732c3b6c-0608-41bb-881b-a43020e7a6f9">Re: Response Card Wording....</a>:
[QUOTE]An invitation is only to those people to whom it is addressed. Don't put the kids on the invitation. If they respond back with the kids, then it's okay to call them and explain that you can't accommodate additional guests.<strong> "Seats reserved in your honor" leaves the opening for someone to bring their neighbor or friend if their spouse can't attend, etc.</strong>  Don't be surprised if that happens.  My advice is to avoid the possibility altogether.
Posted by RetreadBride[/QUOTE]

Great Point!!! Didnt think of that one! Thanks