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rsvp

Everything you need to know about wedding rsvp cards, plus email RSVPs, how to get guests to RSVP on time, and how to deal when someone you didn’t invite to your wedding RSVPs that they’re going to come!

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Get wedding guests to RSVP on time with a secret deadline

Something I see all the time is people sighing/complaining/fretting because their RSVP date has come and gone, yet only 50 of the 200 people invited have RSVPed at all. Thankfully, I work with literary magazines around my campus, and they have a brilliant strategy about submissions: TWO DEADLINES.

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Use Facebook to “shame” your guests into RSVPing

Okay okay, we don’t really advocate Facebook shaming. And we totally think Facebook sucks, especially when you’re getting married. BUT(!) Tribesmaid stephanienjer did you use Facebook to get a leg up on her lazy RSVPs…

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Crowdsource mini works of art from your guests as the RSVP

Jess and Martyn tapped into their guests’ creative sides to collect all kinds of drawings, poems, collages, and well-wishes as a form of RSVP. They included blank postcards in the invitations, and commissioned artistic or written works of art to display at the reception. What they received was no less than an amazing poster-sized exquisite corpse filled with the energies of the people they love.

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What to do when an uninvited guest RSVPs for the wedding you didn’t invite them to attend

So, we’ve talked about How to tell your guests they don’t get a +1. We’ve gone over 10 blunt-but-loving ways to tell people they’re not invited to your wedding. But what happens when a non-guest takes it a step further, and actually RSVPs to your wedding? You know, the wedding you never invited them to?

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A cute, non-aggressive, way to remind your guests to send those errant RSVPs

Oh the RSVP drama llama — why don’t people respond!? Yes or no who cares, just give me a freaking answer, jeez. Guest poster Candy doesn’t have a cure-all, BUT she does have a cute, playful, and (most importantly) non-aggressive way to get some those errant RSVPs from your professional procrastinator guests!

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Postcards as the RSVP cards

Retroanna619 had the great idea to just use bad-ass postcards as her RSVP cards. Can’t beat the price and they’re super cool looking…