Slow wedding replies

Hi Jane,


I can see similar trend with our wedding. Due to get married on the 5th July (postponed from last year), so far we only have 1/3 of responses. I think people are waiting for next announcement before they decide if they will be attending. I think some things will have to be left till last minute once we know how many guests we are expecting (for example table arrangements etc). Fingers crossed it will all go ahead this year !

View quoted message Fingers crossed! Thanks for your reply Karolina.

Am on the same boat. Really worried about return replies.good luck am sure it all be well. Congrats on engagement

View quoted message Thanks Sandra. Glad to know it isn’t just us! Good luck to you too!

Snap, August 7th is our wedding date too!

We had very few replies (sent out the invites a few months ago) so we did a chaser to everyone this weekend saying "As its only 3 months to go and we need to let the venue know soon..." etc. Got over 2/3 of the replies now from that one reminder, and most of what is left is evening guests. Lots of people said to us "oh sorry, there wasn't a deadline to reply by on the invite so I just forgot" - I had wanted to put one but my finance said it was too pushy . Ours is very local though with not many guests having to travel far enough to need a hotel so that might be why people are more willing to confirm.

We also have friends getting married in July and people were apparently hesitant at replying to them so they sent a chaser saying "our venue are asking us to plan as if it is all going ahead as normal so please can you" basically. Which is fair enough.

Good luck getting all the last bits done the next 3 months!