Evening invitations

We didn't put RSVP cards in with any invitations. Both sets of guests have been given the same date to reply by.

We added little cards into both sets of invites. but if you dont want to do that just make sure you put the same date x

Hiya

More often than not, if a bride orders RSVPs, she orders them for day and evening guests.

As for the date, it really depends on what you want to do. A lot will send out evening invites after the day invites so they can "promote" evening guests to the day if any day guests do actually drop out. If you want to do this then I would say to give a later date for evening RSVPs.

HTH

Nat

I will be doing this. I think we have our day invites deadline down as 31st May for Aug 5th, and the evening RSVP is 31st June. It will help to give us an idea of numbers for our evening bbq snacks, but caterer doesn't need to know in as much advance as the day meals.

If you want to do this then I would say to give a later date for evening RSVPs.

I'm not sending out rsvp's with our evening invites but I have put a rsvp date on the invite.

A card or note with a simple ,Thank you very much for your kind invitation.We've had a few people who have declined our evening invites but I wouldn't expect gifts from the people who ARE coming let alone the people who aren't - perhaps a card would be nice but otherwise, perhaps send back a small note with the RSVP saying 'thanks for the invite.

We sent ours all out together, same RSVP date. As far as I was concerned all day and evening only guests are as important as each other, the only difference was close family and a few key friends invited to the WB purely for budgeting purposes as it would have cost £3000 more to feed everyone in the afternoon which we didn't have.

We had a few rejections which enabled us to add a few people and upgrade one or two on the day from no-shows but people seem to understand.

We get far too worked up about 'offending people' by making them evening only guests - but the reality is that nobody has an automatic right to be invited to any part of the day and therefore should be grateful for being invited to anything.