Info for RSVP Cards??

Re: Info for RSVP Cards??

• flantastic member

  

  February 2015

  larabelleb said:

  I will have RSVP cards enclosed with my wedding invitations.  They will list the "Respond By" Date, and there will also be a section asking how many accepts/declines.  Under that we are going to list the food options.  Our venue allows a max. of two choices for dinner so we choose beef and chicken.  Everything about the RSVP card makes sense to me up to this point, however, here is where I get confused.  1)  The venue will make a special meal for people who are vegetarian although they do not consider this another option, hence, there limit of 2 choices, yet we really are choosing a beef dish, a chicken dish, and a vegetarian dish.  To me this seems more like three options so should I list all three, or should I just list the beef and chicken and either right something in small print at the bottom that a veggie meal will be available if requested or should I not mention the veggie meal at all on the card and if someone is a vegetarian they will let me know (I don't really think that is a good idea.)  2)  The venue will also make a special meal for children so technically there are four choices, beef, chicken, veggie, and kids.  I guess I have the same question for the childrens meal that I do about the veggie dish.  Should I list it along with beef and chicken option, right something at the bottom mentioning a kids meal is available or not mention it at all.  We are not having any children at the wedding besides the flower girl and possibly a close relatives newborn who would not be eating a kids meal anyway.  I was thinking about listing the Beef, Chicken, and Veggie as options (even though the venue only wants two main options??) and then just ask the flower girl/her mom if she would like a kids meal to let me know because it is an option.  What do you think?
  
  Also,  on the RSVP card there is a space to list the number of each meal requested per family, but not an area to list names of who is requesting which meal.  How do we figure out who is ordering what so we can get that info on peoples escort cards (a requirement of the venue)?  Should we ask people to write their names next to the dish they are requesting??  I don't know is that would be weird?  How else would we figure this out without having to contact everyone after receiving the RSVPs back?
  
  Thank you for you help and ideas!
  

  I put all three options down, even though the vegetarian also wasn't a technical "option" (although if it's being offered, it's an option). Presumably the venue would also accommodate someone with dietary restrictions? They seem accommodating enough overall. And they really won't know who's actually vegetarian and who just wants the meal.

  Out of the 120 guests who RSVPed yes, six chose the vegetarian option. Two were my sister and grandma, who I know are not vegetarian... but the venue didn't and doesn't need to know. I think with beef and chicken as your other two options, you're safe to put veggie on the card.

  I asked people to initial next to their choices, which only about half of them actually did. MIL was making the escort cards color-coded for meals so the venue would know. Since you should be seating all guests with their SOs, I just decided to assign one meal to each person, and if they wanted to switch they'd be sitting next to each other and could.

  As for the flower girl, if there's really only one possible kid's meal, I'd just ask the parents.

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• flantastic member

  

  February 2015

  I designed our invitation suite, and this is what our RSVP card looked like. If you click on the little X it should come up.

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• LtPowers member

  

  February 2015

  The caterer won't see your response cards, so I don't see any reason to disguise the presence of a vegetarian option.

  
  

  
  

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• [Deleted User] member

  

  February 2015

  I'm with the others, no reason you can't list all 3 options. In regards to the kid's meal, since you only have one child you can talk to their parent directly and advise your venue. And for the escort cards, I wouldn't worry about who ordered what. Try to come up with a way with your escort cards to code them that would work for your venue. For example, get little rhinestones in your wedding colors. For example sake I'm going with black, white & red. For every chicken dinner ordered, you put one white stone on the escort card & for every beef dinner you put a red stone on the card & for every veggie dinner you put a black stone on the card. So the cards will look different to the guests, but it's discreet enough that it won't stand out to the guests who ordered what but the staff will know. Chances are they don't need to know the specifics that John Smith ordered the Chicken and his wife Jane ordered the Beef, just that with that couple there is a chicken order & a beef order.

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