I posted yesterday about my parents just getting back from vacation and my Dad went and picked up the mail and found 17 more reply cards...well my Mom called me while she was opening them so that I could update my spreadsheet (I'm an excel addict)
We ended up getting a couple of "no"s and two of the three were semi-unexpected.
FI's grandmother's sister was invited with 2 guests. We gave her 2 guests so that she could ask one of her adult children (she has 6 "kids") to take her to the wedding and also bring their SO. She can't drive and certainly wouldn't be able to drive up to Maine for the wedding alone, so this was the best solution for us. She rsvp'd no....and FI is kind of sad about this because he had expected her to want to come.
I told FI that maybe her family was busy and none of them could go with her to the wedding, or maybe she thought "wow Maine is so far I'm not going!" (its only about an hour away, about 5 miles into Maine) but who knows, I think he was hoping for a note on the reply to say why she couldn't come...
Also, I posted a few weeks ago about my friend who was coming up to MA from NC and she was asking me to pretty much make her travel plans for her (find out train prices/taxi availability etc.) and she also asked if she could bring a guest. I said no because we really couldn't fit any more people on the list.
She wrote a note saying that:
"Since I can't bring a guest, the cost to travel by train, taxi etc, and the cost for the hotel is more than I can afford"
I'm almost glad that she said no because I really didn't want to have to deal with planning/checking in on her travel arrangements.
So as of now, we've gotten back 60% of our replies and hopefully more will come in this week since our rsvp date is March 31st!
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