The "M" on an RSVP

elizabethmarquez2

Hello! This may sound silly but I ordered my RSVP's and I originally thought that I needed to fill out the line with the names that follows the M______

After doing a quick google search, it looks like the guests actually fill that out?!?!?

Can someone please verify???? I'm confused

elizabethmarquez2

Thanks!

HobokensFury

M is for Mr., Ms. or Mrs. This guest fills it out.

Jen4948

HobokenBride2012 said:

M is for Mr., Ms. or Mrs. This guest fills it out.

Or Miss, if any guest uses that.

HisGirlFriday13

Jen4948 said:

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HobokenBride2012 said:

M is for Mr., Ms. or Mrs. This guest fills it out.

Or Miss, if any guest uses that.


Or 'Messrs.' for two men who have the same last name.

Jen4948

HisGirlFriday13 said:

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HobokenBride2012 said:

M is for Mr., Ms. or Mrs. This guest fills it out.

Or Miss, if any guest uses that.

Or 'Messrs.' for two men who have the same last name.

Or Mmes. or Mlles. for two women with the same last name.

We're having fun with this, but it could stand for any of those things.

HisGirlFriday13

We are! The only time I've ever seen RSVP cards be pre-filled-out has been here on TK, and that was done by a bride who was worried about people RSVPing for additional guests. I never checked back to see if it worked or it people still added on guests....

AddieCake

We filled ours out for people. 

HisGirlFriday13

AddieL73 said:

We filled ours out for people. 

Someone else did it, too, though, @AddieL73. I remember the thread vaguely and the bride was all like, "I want to invite my FI's family and his over-18 cousins, but not the under-18 cousins, even though it splits up families!" I wish I could remember enough more to look for it. 

Did you have anyone try to add additional guests?

AddieCake

No, we didn't have anyone try to add additional guests on the RSVP card. 

tiny speck

And if any of your guests are doctors, they will cross out the M and write in Dr. A couple of our guests did that. I suppose if you have any reverends they would do the same.

lisabeats

I wrote mine in, because I didn't want rando additional guests. That was not me concerned about splitting up families, however.

I also didn't even have the "M" put on because a large proportion of our guests have alternative titles. So instead of them or me crossing it out, I just wrote "Mr/Ms/Miss/Mrs./Messrs/Mmes/Majesty/Major/Mamadukes" where appropriate.

...Perhaps that got a little carried away...

libby2483

We didn't write it in for our guests.  We only had one guest try to add an additional person.

mlg78

 

tiny speck said:

And if any of your guests are doctors, they will cross out the M and write in Dr. A couple of our guests did that. I suppose if you have any reverends they would do the same.

For this reason we put Name _____________, not M ___________...and it also seems not everyone is bright enough to figure out what M_________ means, sad to say.

16maybeless

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tiny speck said:

And if any of your guests are doctors, they will cross out the M and write in Dr. A couple of our guests did that. I suppose if you have any reverends they would do the same.

For this reason we put Name _____________, not M ___________...and it also seems not everyone is bright enough to figure out what M_________ means, sad to say.

That's what our invites have, too, "Name." (We haven't gotten them letterpressed yet, but that's what the design has.) Is that a bad? Should we request "M" instead, or does it matter?

mnwatson1

I was always under the impression that it started as a French thing, that the "M" was actually shorthand for "M'appelle" which is french for "Name," going along with the RSVP standing for "Répondez s'il vous plaît."  I hadn't ever heard anything different until I started lurking here and reading everyone's responses about it being a placeholder for a person's title!