So I just get a call from my fiancé who's in his home state on business, but went to dinner with his parents tonight. Turns out, his stepsister is planning on bringing her boyfriend to our wedding this weekend. But never told us.
Back story? When invites went out, she was dating someone else (and had been for the past 8 years). They since broke up. She had started seeing someone else in the immediate aftermath, but never mentioned anything to either the groom or I about bringing him to the wedding. Her RSVP was only for herself and in all of the conversations we had with her about her entree choices for both the rehearsal dinner and the wedding itself, she never once mentioned her new boyfriend or asked if we needed his entree.
Fast forward to today and I'm now going to have to call my venue tomorrow to change the number of 12 person tables we have, because she was at a fully-occupied 10 person table and now we have to accommodate one more; I have to alert both them and the rehearsal dinner venue of the changes in entree counts; I have to contact the vendor who did our place cards and escort cards to see if I can have another printed up for him and shipped to me in the next 5 days; and I have to contact both our linen and furniture vendors to alert them to the change in head count. Not a huge deal in the grand scheme of life, I know, but definitely not what I want to be dealing with on wedding week, especially because it was completely avoidable.
Why do people seemingly have zero respect for the RSVP process?