One of the strategies that Matt and I used to reduce our wedding's impact on the environment and our wallet was online RSVPs. It helped us lower our postage costs and paper usage.We embedded a form on our wedding website, but if I were going to do it again, I would use my friend Kevin's company, Wufoo. I'm getting ready to use Wufoo for another project I'm working on right now, and I adore it.
Specifically, I love how witty and personal the interface is. After I signed up, I received a message that started with "A Glorious Welcome!" When I log in to create a form, it says, "Holy tabula rasa! You don't have any forms! Let's go make one!" And the tagline under "Form Manager" says, "O, what men dare do!"
It cracks me up.
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We are doing online RSVPs and people are deeply confused. Thoughts?
We used both phone reply and online RSVPs and we had some confusion...just direct them to the website. But be willing to accept replies over the phone too.
I love this idea, but I'm worried about some of our guest list that don't really "do" the internet (e.g. Grandma). Should we just call people as well?
We're also doing a combination of online replies and phone replies. The trouble is, I can already tell some people won't use either. Some people will tell one of our sets of parents that we're coming and think that's their RSVP. Some people will assume we already know they're coming.
No matter how you set up your RSVPs, you're most likely going to have to call people to follow up. Better to check than to have them show up and not have a seat or a dinner!
I gotta say I think most of our guests would be confused by online RSVPs. This is one of those things that I'm willing to throw money (and paper!) at to make my life easier and give me one less thing to field phone calls and emails about.
That said....love that interface!!
I've been pleasantly surprised with the ease of online invitations. We have had to call a few people but we're less than a month from the wedding and just about everyone that I expected to RSVP has. Some people never got back to us but we aren't expecting them to show up unannounced. I sent out a reminder email a month after the initial invite and emphasized the "RSVP by" date. So I would definitely recommend online invites. Saves a ton of money and makes things easier...at least in my case.
Online RSVPs worked super well for us. We started getting RSVPS on our wedding website right after sending out the Save-the-Date. Well before the invites were even mailed. Some people requested not to have a paper invite to be more eco-friendly! Online RSVPS were free and super convient. Even my husband's grandfather was able to figure it out (though he did RSVP twice?). We also included a phone number for phone RSVPs but only got maybe one or two of those. I highly recommend it if most of your guests have email and internet access.
Thanks, I love Wufoo! We are using their RSVPs and calling non-internet aunts/etc...
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