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.

10/10 A successful event manages to keep guests connected to the story being told.

A successful event managed to keep guests connected to the story being told.

Wedding formulas put people to sleep because they know the outcome already. Guest’s wait for the next box to be check. To avoid this you need a point of view. You can’t be everything all at once; classic but not conformist, innovative but still traditional, bright yet subtle…you know who you are. 

Are you the fun couple with doors always open? When friends need a shoulder to lean on, are you the ones they think of first? Are you the trailblazers that inspire others to follow their dreams? Are you the most simple, safe and down to earth of your friends? 

Social media has changed our thinking of events. So many think in terms of whats going to be inside that box rather than what is experienced throughout an evening. 

What are the adjectives that give energy to your intention? What is not your intention with this event? What are some analogies? Is this a journey through a season? A journey to an island? Is this a fabulous ending or an amazing beginning? Give those ideas some more language. 

Keep the night moving. I find that sometimes overtime should only be thirty minutes or not take place at all, if you have a cool after party that is ideally close by. You don’t want guests to lose their steam. You want to have their attention at the end.