Cheaps ways to have guests RSVP?

I'd get rsvp cards from vistaprint.com or 123print.com

We were kind of entertaining something like this. We have several family members that do not have internet. We also have several friends that wouldn't mail anything to save their lives. We were thinking of having 2 different RSVP cards: one with SASE and phone number, the other with email and phone #/or wedding website & phone #. It would cut (what I feel is) a big waste of money on stamps we KNOW no one is ever going to use.

I'm having guests RSVP via our wedding website here on WW. Almost all of our guests are computer/internet savvy, or are close to someone who is and could help (my grandma's RSVP will be taken care of by my aunt, that sort of thing). An email/phone line could work as well, as long as guests are receptive to it.

Most invitation kits come with RSVP cards...or have them rsvp on your website

Email would probably be the easiest if you aren't doing RSVP cards, but I know there are some older people in my family who don't own a computer or have an email address (crazy, right?). So if you take that route, you may want to include a phone number as well

I got my invitation kit from Hobby Lobby and don't recall them having RSVP cards but if they do, I will use them to print parking garage/lot areas because my wedding is downtown and doesn't have it's own separate parking garage. After, I sent the STD's I had only 1 couple sign our guests book! Sad, I know. I just might have them all send me a text to say who's coming.

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We put a google form into our site, and are sending about 90% of our guests a card asking them to go to our site, fill out their names and info, and click submit. Google collects the info into a spreadsheet, so we have a nice easy list. I've seen similar things on other wedding sites, and find it really easy and convenient to use as a guest - I'm sure there are options to have responses either emailed to you or put into a spreadsheet like ours. About 10% of our guests will receive a traditional card with stamped return envelope, either because they don't go online often or because we think they'll really prefer the traditional experience for some reason.

We're having people rsvp on our WW website or if they aren't internet savvy, then i set up a google voice phone number that they can call/text and leave their rsvp there. most of our people know how to work the internet, so if they can't figure out one of those 2, ways then we'll call them and get their rsvp, when the time comes.

We gave people two options

-on our website

-through mail with the pre-stamped and addressed envelope

We got most of them in the mail even from people our age who use the internet everyday. I honestly would not cut out the extra $30-$40, I feel it'll just give people more of an excuse to NOT RSVP.

If you were having an eco wedding i would say go ahead, but if you aren't yes, it is tacky.

You should be sending out pre stamped and addressed envelope.

I totally agree with you Justine. If you are going to have people text/e-mail their RSVP why even bother sending out invitations? You might as well just send out a mass text/e-mail inviting people.

If my mother would let me get away with not sending invitations, I would. People have save the dates, and I can email them the address. I've never kept an invitation, and everything is easier for me to do online.

Add to that being on a tight budget, spending $ on stamps for a lot of people who are unlikely to mail it back (we already know our family) doesn't make sense. And it's 2012.

If you do RSVP cards, yes, stamp them, but if everybody has internet access or a phone, who the hell cares how they let you know they will or won't be there?

You might look at anRSVP.com. They have options for online RSVPs that allow people to select meal options, etc.

As for the argument that, "You should be sending out pre stamped and addressed envelope," I find that hilarious. Conventional etiquette says that you should not send an RSVP card at all. The theory is that doing so implies that your guests are so ill-mannered that they would not know to send back a written RSVP (in blue or black ink) if you didn't give them the card. No one follows that conventional etiquette any more, because they have figured out that their guests will not in fact send back written RSVPs (with or without blue or black ink) unless you practically guide their hands to write the responses. But since RSVP cards are merely a practical necessity, not a matter of etiquette, any other practical method for getting the job done is also fine.

You could always get the 100 free postcards from VP, and then give the option on there to rsvp on WW. Guests could also use their own stamp to send it back to you, if they didn't want to go the high tech way, lol.

That's basically what we did, except we used the response cards that matched our invites. They looked like this:

We only stamped maybe 10 of them for elderly guests and guests who we knew didn't have internet and would put up a stink about not having it pre-stamped.

I'm doing email and phone #. I have 200 invites so that would be alot of money on stamps.

We also did the wedding wire rsvp and left a phone number if they want to call. Our invites were a kit and they came with the rsvp cards and envelopes. We just customized the rsvp card with our site rsvp and the phone number. Will just use the envelopes for thank you cards or something!

Its my opinion and yes i understand its 2012 a lot is done through e-mail i just personally think its informal. What about the older guests who don't know how to use e-mail? With phone calls what if your husband answers forgets to right it down and you completely miss a family of 4. Yes, some people may not send them back, some people may just call you and tell you or send you a text, but its a wedding, not a birthday party. 150 stamps is less than 100 (in Canada), maybe that is a lot for some budget I don't know, I just personally think its not good etiquette, unless you have a "eco-friendly" wedding.

I know not all etiquette needs to be followed, but there are a few that stand out to me that should, and this is just one of them

If I got a facebook invite asking to go to some ones wedding, I'd know that it is an extremely informal wedding, and I wouldn't take their wedding seriously.

I will most likely be having the guests either RSVP on our website or mail back the RVSP card...I wasn't going to do that at first but I just want things to be formal.

We didn't choose the electronic version to save cash--we did it because those little cards get lost so often! I know its not perfect by etiquette standards--but oh well!