Do I Need To Include RSVP Cards with my Wedding Invitations?

by Daily Wedding Blog
Filed under Features, Wedding Invitations

Whether or not to insert an RSVP card within your wedding invitation is up for debate. Traditionally in formal weddings, guests would RSVP the bride and groom using their own stationery. Whilst this still happens to a certain extent, many formal weddings these days simply include an RSVP card with their invitation, making it a simple matter for their friends and family to tick the yes or no check-box as to whether or not they will be able to attend the wedding.

However this does not mean that RSVP cards are the norm in modern day weddings. It’s one of those things that is simply a personal choice for the bride and groom. Typically budget and convenience are the determining factors as to whether or not to use RSVP cards. On the one hand, with RSVP cards you have hard copy notification of your family and friends availability, yet there are the associated costs of the RSVP cards themselves and the possibility that your guests might misplace the cards and forget to send them.

If you decide against using RSVP cards it is important that there is still some way for guests to inform you of their availability and you need to make this known to them. Alternative methods of RSVP are email, text messages and a good old phone call. Don’t forget to include an RSVP deadline. Hopefully a deadline will mean that there will be less people for you to chase up.

Ultimately when it comes to planning your wedding, the decisions are for you and your partner alone. You make your own rules and if you want to have wedding RSVP cards then do so. If you don’t want to use them, then don’t. It really is that easy.

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