RSVP Options: 6/27/23 Tuesday’s Tips→

TUESDAY TIPS 6/27/23

*RSVP CHOICES*

You may find that your guests are staying at many different types of accommodations. Perhaps you chose a destination location, or it’s the nature of the area in which you are getting married. Additionally, nowadays, we are all used to being able to obtain as much information as we want, online. It is because of these two reasons that we feel strongly about the following:

1. You should feel comfortable over-communicating on your website. While aesthetically I favor less is more, oftentimes on stationery products and in general with regard to the written word, in this instance however, I feel differently. 

2. You may want to consider an online RSVP. Now, many love the old-fashioned RSVP that comes in the postal mail. I do too! You have visions of saving them for the rest of your life, making a collage for your man or ladies cave, or hope that you receive fun notes on the back in the postal mail, sending you running to the mailbox. Okay, maybe, but.... you also want to make sure guests tell you where they are staying and how many of them are coming? Is their plus one in fact coming? Did they decide on their own that they are bringing a plus one because they don't understand etiquette? Guests can return to your RSVP page on the website down the line to fill in any of the additional fields you added to that page such as allergies, or their RSVP for the night before.

3. You may want to update guests on any changes you may make in between the time you sent the invite and the date of the wedding. Those changes may be the location of your ceremony at the venue.  The week of the wedding, if rain is forecasted and that changes the location of the ceremony, you may want to give them a quick email. Certainly, the venue team (and planning team if you have one) will be helping with this on-site, however guests do appreciate being informed. Not all rain plans are simply tenting on top of the same space. 

4. If you are not preparing a welcome bag you may want to drop the weekend itinerary into the body of an email. You might, also, want to give them this information before they receive their welcome hotel bag. 

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  The photo below is a little peak at the invite process. We write notes on the Proof PDF, as we find it dramatically helps clients understand our suggested updates.

(3/10) Top 10 things to remember when planning a wedding...the less superficial list.

Three of Ten: Wedding planning can be simple if you know what the skilled planner knows.
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As always, what we write below does not apply to everyone.
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Right now, you may not believe that wedding planning can be simple but it’s true. So is the fact that what’s simple is hard. Wedding planning and any project, no matter its size, is simple if you have the time, experience, support and know what's ahead of you. It’s sometimes hard to accept what you learn as you move along because your assumptions will be tested. If it’s not time, experience, or a fear of the unknown getting in your way, then it’s your feelings about what’s happening, or things entirely separate from the project of wedding planning. If you don’t have the willingness to address all your feelings during this noteworthy time, then you are prone to project your feelings onto other things, such as your wedding planning.
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For some of you more than others, the time of your engagement and wedding planning brings up a ton of feelings. In other words, questions, expectations, fears, baggage from your childhood and your present-day insecurities. All normal stuff that is not all about shooting stars and fairy princesses. All normal stuff. You are not odd or alone in this.
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Take planning one step at a time and don’t fling your attention all over the place. Above all, hire help or enlist a levelheaded friend you trust. If you do hire help and your help has done this over 200 times to great success, trust them.
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Simplify your life a little so you can give yourselves time for all the things that come up this year, so that the actual wedding planning is simpler. If you take time for all your feelings, at the end of the road I promise that you will feel more ready, happy, and carefree on your wedding day.
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Don’t fall down the rabbit hole and have a year that is constantly in manic-mode and reassure yourselves by saying, it’ll all go back to normal once the wedding is over because it won’t, not entirely anyhow. If this describes you month after month after month after month, some other things are going on and after the wedding, when you crash, you will be left with the realities that you avoided beforehand.
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The process will be much simpler for you both if you get specific about the intention of your wedding. Yeah, yes, we know you want to celebrate with your friends and family, and for everyone to have a blast. But truly what is your wedding for and what is it not for? Aim your energy at the positive answer and try and let all the other bullshit fall away. Respect your own wedding - stick to your intentions. You are choosing to not just go to city hall for a reason, right? Well, why?