Comments on: RSVP reality http://www.elizabethannedesigns.com/blog/2009/05/02/rsvp-reality/ The wedding blog that is all about the details... Mon, 13 Feb 2012 08:02:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Alyson http://www.elizabethannedesigns.com/blog/2009/05/02/rsvp-reality/#comment-29695 Alyson Wed, 06 May 2009 16:35:19 +0000 http://www.elizabethannedesigns.com/blog/?p=10115#comment-29695 So I just found your blog, looks like I'm going to be answering old questions in reverse order. My wedding is in 19 days in Pennsylvania, but we live in Los Angeles. We invited 211, but are now projecting attendance of 100 including us. This is only going down at this point, not up. When we were compiling the save-the-date list, I was really panicked that we'd get 150 years for a space that is more comfortable with 130. I even had visions of 170, heaven forbid. But yes, the economy brought our count way down. No we wish we'd invited a few more people - some of my co-workers & more old high school friends. Mean while no "calculator" out there was going to predict that we would get 46% attendance. I have always kept 2 lists for RSVPs. One for actual RSVPs and one that predicted who would and wouldn't come. I would tell my mom "Today we're projecting 106." So I just found your blog, looks like I’m going to be answering old questions in reverse order.
My wedding is in 19 days in Pennsylvania, but we live in Los Angeles. We invited 211, but are now projecting attendance of 100 including us. This is only going down at this point, not up. When we were compiling the save-the-date list, I was really panicked that we’d get 150 years for a space that is more comfortable with 130. I even had visions of 170, heaven forbid. But yes, the economy brought our count way down. No we wish we’d invited a few more people – some of my co-workers & more old high school friends. Mean while no “calculator” out there was going to predict that we would get 46% attendance. I have always kept 2 lists for RSVPs. One for actual RSVPs and one that predicted who would and wouldn’t come. I would tell my mom “Today we’re projecting 106.”

]]> By: Loopy http://www.elizabethannedesigns.com/blog/2009/05/02/rsvp-reality/#comment-29435 Loopy Mon, 04 May 2009 13:39:50 +0000 http://www.elizabethannedesigns.com/blog/?p=10115#comment-29435 Oh! We just ran into the same issue! There were alot of out-of-towners that couldn't make it (due to economy & everything else), so we have more space for people that didn't get on the A list! The question is tho, will the B list people care they are on the B list? (it's only a month away!). On a side note, we were pretty surprised at the # of RSVPs sent back! I don't think anyone really uses snail mail anymore! ;) <abbr><em>Loopy’s most recent blog post: <a href="http://loopyrocket.blogspot.com/2009/05/hell-no-no-more-camel-toe.html" rel="nofollow">Hell No! No more Camel Toe!</a></abbr></em> Oh! We just ran into the same issue! There were alot of out-of-towners that couldn’t make it (due to economy & everything else), so we have more space for people that didn’t get on the A list! The question is tho, will the B list people care they are on the B list? (it’s only a month away!).

On a side note, we were pretty surprised at the # of RSVPs sent back! I don’t think anyone really uses snail mail anymore! ;)

Loopy’s most recent blog post: Hell No! No more Camel Toe!

]]> By: One Barefoot Bride http://www.elizabethannedesigns.com/blog/2009/05/02/rsvp-reality/#comment-29181 One Barefoot Bride Sun, 03 May 2009 03:29:25 +0000 http://www.elizabethannedesigns.com/blog/?p=10115#comment-29181 We just scored a last-minute invite to a local friend's wedding next week because of that very issue. Half of her family lives in the UK, and wasn't able to make it. I'm happy that we'll get to share the Big Day with them... and I suspect we'll face the same issue later in the summer. We applied percentages to the invite list, and are planning to slightly 'over invite' assuming that a lot of the east coast and international guests will less likely to make it. We just scored a last-minute invite to a local friend’s wedding next week because of that very issue. Half of her family lives in the UK, and wasn’t able to make it. I’m happy that we’ll get to share the Big Day with them… and I suspect we’ll face the same issue later in the summer. We applied percentages to the invite list, and are planning to slightly ‘over invite’ assuming that a lot of the east coast and international guests will less likely to make it.

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