My partner and I are planning on asking guests to RSVP through our wedding website or over the phone. We wanted to avoid RSVP cards or postcards, since:
- the cards or postcards will obviously cost money,
- we would also be paying for stamps for the cards or postcards,
- we want to keep the weight of our invitations low enough to mail them with Forever stamps, which we have already purchased.
However, I'm struggling so much with invitation design and wording. We'd want to have the RSVP information below the main invitation wording (e.g. "Please join us for ..." our names, the date, time, and location of the wedding), after a small line break. Here's the best wording we've come up with:
RSVP by [date]
www.weddingwebsite.com/mylasthislast
[phone number]
Here are my questions:
- Is it clear that people can RSVP through the website OR call us?
- Do you think people who call to RSVP will still check the website? They need to select a meal option, and the meal options are listed on the website. RSVPing through the website makes sure that people select a meal.
- Is there a not-terribly-awkward way to make it clear that there's lots of non-RSVP info on the website? We have information about hotel rooms, the venue, directions, etc.
- Should we include a website password? Is there a way to include it without getting too wordy? We've managed without a password so far (no spam) and we're not worried about not-invited people RSVPing. But we'd love to know other people's opinions and experiences.
We're considering getting inexpensive business cards to use as inserts with the RSVP information, or having the RSVP info printed up on the back of the invitations. However, for the sake of cost and simplicity, we'd prefer to have the RSVP info on the front. So I'd still love your opinions and answers to the above questions, although we will not rule out business cards/reverse side printing.
Thanks!
now with ~* INCREASED SASSINESS *~
