I have moaned about this before but I am going to do it again. We get married one week today (I am so excited!)
On our invites, sent out in July, we asked people to respond by 30th Sept. I spent the first 2 weeks of October chasing people who hadn't bothered their arses to let us know if they were coming or not. Had responses like 'Oh didn't realised it was RSVP' and 'Yeah think we will be OK' or 'Well not sure what we are doing that weekend' I Think it is just bloody rude - we are paying for a meal for these people and even if we weren't as a friend of mine pointed out its an honour to be invited to someones wedding, it shows they want you to spend their very special day with them.
Any way last week we went to the hotel with the final numbers and rough table plan and paid the bill. Yesterday one of OH friends rings him and says 'Sorry can't make wedding (exactly one week away!) as we are flying off on holiday that day. Its our wedding anniversary next week'. So you didn't know you were planning on going on holiday, it just appeared out of nowhere like magic, rude inconsiderate b*****ds.!!!!
Now we have the problem do we invite someone else at short notice or just let those 2 meals go to waste..... How would you feel if you were invited to a wedding as an after thought? I am not sure what to do.