RSVP date...?

morenachica110 · May 2012

I know this has been brought up a katrillion times, but I wanted to check with you guys... I'm about to order rsvp postcards and here's the dates...

Wedding is the 22nd. We'll be sending about July 20th-ish (around that date) and was planning on rsvp date to be August 18th. We need 3 weeks notice for the caterer and that would give me two weeks. to call people. It seems kind of far out though (5 weeks?!). Do you guys think I should change it to August 25?

Ugh... I will be SO happy when invites are DONE!

irshdancr5500 · May 2012

No, I think you should go with your current plan, I don't think that's an excessive amount of time. Plus, I think you'll be much less stressed out about the timing this way, no point in being stressed when you don't need to be!

QueerFemme · May 2012

I would push your RSVP date to the 25th. It shouldn't take more than a week to follow up. Even if 20-30 people don't rsvp, which is probably unlikely, you could call 5 per night and still be more than fine.

hollyweenOR · May 2012

Our date is 9/15 & we're doing 8/24- our caterer just needed 2 weeks, so I figured a week would be plenty to track down any MIA responses.

Nikki71 · May 2012

Is one month out typical? My wedding is September 2 and I'm hoping to make the RSVP by date August 2.

jjswin · May 2012

I am also getting married on the 22nd and I used August 15th. I have to give the final head count two weeks before but I want to have enough time to chase the rude people down that did not RSVP. I know I want to be sure I have time and not be stressed at the end for the last minute items that come up.

courtney3544 · May 2012

My wedding is also September 22nd and I was just going to make everything simple by sending them out on or around July 22nd and the RSVP date August 22nd

madimyluv · May 2012

My wedding is September 15th and my rsvp date is August 10th. I wanted to make sure I had enough time and didnt want to rush ANYTHING.

volleygurl0306 · May 2012

If you will be getting help tracking people down, I'd push it back a week (i.e. FMIL promised to handle FI's family who doesn't reply since I don't know most of them, FI will handle his own friends and I just have to do my side). If you will be doing it alone or need a head count for budgetary purposes I'd leave it. Yeah it isn't a lot to call 5 people a night but getting 5 people to pick up and an immediate answer from 5 people a night seems like a lot to me since these are proabably your more flaky relatives/friends. Personally, the head count is the biggest stress because food is about 80% of our budget and is totally driven by head count so I wish I could know our numbers NOW to know how much we need to save or if we can relax a little. I'm sticking to 4 weeks before but right now I just want the RSVP date to be here. If you have any of those sentiments going on, leave it.

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