Making some headway!! Whoo Hoo!! *happy dance*-website up/STD

Re: Making some headway!! Whoo Hoo!! *happy dance*-website up/STD

• maui2011 member

  

  June 2011 edited December 2011

  Congrats on the big checks!!! I use wedding window as well and love it. I think you put a "@ where you need a ." in your website addy. J. :-)

  
  
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• Tanq&Tonic

  

  June 2011 edited December 2011

  Nice!  HUGE checks off the list.  And the website looks really great...super professional.  I have a few questions/thoughts though...hope it doesn't come across too harshly...
  
  Did you really mean to request an RSVP by June 20, 2011 for a wedding in March of 2012?  That's ungodly early, but if you require it in order to book some things in advance, you should let your guests know what they are committing to.  Either way, expect a lot to change between now and March...unfortunately, life happens and while some will intend to come or skip, circumstances could be really different by then.
  
  And...your Save the Date postcard is also the official invite?  I'm sure you already know but this is really unconventional, and some guests may actually wait for the real invite before even viewing the website.  Maybe not your audience, but it is possible, and some may not book travel until they know the formal invite is sent (and an STD this far in advance really should not require an RSVP).

  

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• fabutan member

  

  June 2011 edited December 2011

  Awesome website!!  I absolutely love the design.  

  
  

  Have to 100% agree with the points that Tanq raised...  Asking for guests to RSVP about 9 months earlier might be a bit ambitious.  We sent our STDs at around that time, but found most guests waited until they booked travel before confirming their attendance.  Some folks were REALLY last minute, I have to say.  

  
  

  It's a good idea to follow up with a formal invitation that lists the venue, ceremony start time, and other details that might be confirmed between now and a couple months before your wedding.  Having updates on a website is great, but in practice, some people don't check websites all too often and having it on paper really "cements" details with most folks.  HTH!!  

  
  

  
  

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• memegrace member

  

  June 2011 edited December 2011

  Hey ladies!  Thanks for the input..and don't worry Tanq&Tonic, absolutely no offense taken!!  All of your input is much appreciated!!  For a typical wedding, I competely agree!!  I actaully had a really hard time with deciding what to do about invites/rsvp's but we felt as though this was the best route for us..yes..totally unconventional!!  I actually sent out the save the dates at the very beginning of May to family ONLY and requested rsvp by May 20.  We wanted to see what our numbers were at before extending to our friends as we both have large families.  Our family extends out across Canada with the bulk of mine being in PEI.  If we had gone with what everyone wanted for us, we would be having a LARGE wedding in PEI!   (The norm for my family/friends is large weddings and my Mom has 12 siblings, my FI Dad has 7..so you can imagine..)  What made this okay in our case is that we have been engaged for over a year already and we also already told everyone we were planning on Hawaii so they have known for a long time of our tentative plan.  They also knew it would be next year since we had our baby and that has been our priority.  Also, knowing our anniversary date is meaningful for us.  We were unsure of whether or not we were going to just elope or invite others which we were clear from the start about.  When we decided to invite others with us (As i wanted mainly...my guy is very private and shy so he would be fine with just us three!)  Not having my Mom there was not an option and so it goes..besides being able to share in the celebration with others is more fun!  Also to complicate things even more is the fact that we have large friend circle on both sides.  All of whom are really improtant to us.  As far as friend weddings go, we are among the last to get married after years of going to all their weddings..all of which have been on the larger side.  And we have together been in 7 wedding parties so that makes it hard as well.  Having the tight  timeline has allowed us to invite everyone who is really important to us while not turning it into a huge wedding.  We figured it would be either you can or can't so just went with it!  It has worked out well for us so far!  Out of 120 total (50 std sent out)  We have had rsvp's for 80 people.  50 replied yes.  Our venue hold 60 adults which means we have room for roughly 20 more.  There are about that many already that have verbally said it will be a no.  So we should be good!  And we will expect things to come up for people which is no problem so as time goes on, we imagine the numbers will go down.  As far as formal invites go.  I will make wedding day detail cards for each guest coming before we go and make sure they get them!!   Also, if by chance numbers exceed our venue, we will book at a larger site.  Olowalu is the plan for that and our date is still avail!  (That would be the ideal location for moi but can't justify the rental cost of the site for the sunday which is 4 times the cost of our current rental!!) pheewww...that was a long post!  LOL

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• madstaylor member

  

  June 2011 edited December 2011

  Yay! Congrats! The time will fly by!

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