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lucamon Posted: Jul 04, 2008 08:07 PM+

lucamon MEMBER SINCE: 9/07 TOTAL POSTS : 2531 WEDDING DATE: Sep 06, 2008

Posted: Jul 04, 2008 08:07 PM

International Invites

What did you do for postage for the RSVPs that are going overseas?
Do you not give them a RSVP card and follow up with a phone call? Do you try to find postage for other countries or leave it up to them to put a stamp on?

yswedding Posted: Jul 04, 2008 08:34 PM+

yswedding MEMBER SINCE: 12/07 TOTAL POSTS : 1462 WEDDING DATE: Sep 21, 2008

Posted: Jul 04, 2008 08:34 PM

Re: International Invites

Oh wow, I'm wondering about that too!

I gave up trying to see if I can find stamps from 3 different countries abroad, its just too much. I was going to leave the RSVP envelope blank ... not sure if thats a good idea

Brooklynbride Posted: Jul 04, 2008 09:23 PM+

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Posted: Jul 04, 2008 09:23 PM

Re: International Invites

Posted by lucamon

What did you do for postage for the RSVPs that are going overseas?
Do you not give them a RSVP card and follow up with a phone call? Do you try to find postage for other countries or leave it up to them to put a stamp on?

I sent about 10 invitions overseas (Italy, Egypt, Germany, Switzerland, Greece) and I did sent them an RSVP card without postage. I included my phone number and e-mail address to make things easier on them. They mostly responded via phone or e-mail. I only had one person RSVP via mail and they put their own postage.

I hope this helps

lucamon Posted: Jul 04, 2008 10:18 PM+

lucamon MEMBER SINCE: 9/07 TOTAL POSTS : 2531 WEDDING DATE: Sep 06, 2008

Posted: Jul 04, 2008 10:18 PM

Re: International Invites

Posted by Brooklynbride

Posted by lucamon

What did you do for postage for the RSVPs that are going overseas?
Do you not give them a RSVP card and follow up with a phone call? Do you try to find postage for other countries or leave it up to them to put a stamp on?

I sent about 10 invitions overseas (Italy, Egypt, Germany, Switzerland, Greece) and I did sent them an RSVP card without postage. I included my phone number and e-mail address to make things easier on them. They mostly responded via phone or e-mail. I only had one person RSVP via mail and they put their own postage.

I hope this helps

That's a really good idea. I want to include the RSVP because my pocketfolds seem so empty without them. Thanks.

missexcited Posted: Jul 05, 2008 07:28 AM+

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Posted: Jul 05, 2008 07:28 AM

Re: International Invites

i didnt put postage on their rsvp. i folloed up with a phonecall.

Brooklynbride Posted: Jul 05, 2008 07:34 AM+

Brooklynbride MEMBER SINCE: 9/07 TOTAL POSTS : 1483 WEDDING DATE: Aug 16, 2008

Posted: Jul 05, 2008 07:34 AM

Re: International Invites

Posted by missexcited

i didnt put postage on their rsvp. i folloed up with a phonecall.

Really? I was told by the Post office staff that if you put an american postage on the envelope it doesn't matter because they can't use it. They need the stamp from their country in order for the RSVP to be delivered. I figure why waste a stamp

, plus they all understood the reason

trojo1521 Posted: Jul 05, 2008 09:29 AM+

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Posted: Jul 05, 2008 09:29 AM

Re: International Invites

We didn't put postage on our international invites. It was all of DH's immediate family, so we figured they wouldn't mind spending a dollar to send it back.

frescelena Posted: Jul 05, 2008 11:02 AM+

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Posted: Jul 05, 2008 11:02 AM

Re: International Invites

......Thanks for this! I didn't even think of it!

Annoulak Posted: Jul 05, 2008 11:54 AM+

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Posted: Jul 05, 2008 11:54 AM

Re: International Invites

FH received an invite to a wedding in Canada, and they had a Canadian Stamp on the RSVP envelope...which meant that we couldn't even use the RSVP envelope to return it to them because Canadian stamps won't work. So, we had to use our own envelope and stamp to send it back to them.

So, general rule of thumb for me is don't include American postage on RSVP envelopes sent to guests in other countries.

Celeste617 Posted: Jul 05, 2008 11:57 AM+

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Posted: Jul 05, 2008 11:57 AM

Re: International Invites

Wow, thanks for posting this since I hadn't even thought about it. I have a bunch to send out to Ireland but never even took the separate postage into account

Brooklynbride Posted: Jul 05, 2008 10:01 PM+

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Posted: Jul 05, 2008 10:01 PM

Re: International Invites

Posted by Annoulak

FH received an invite to a wedding in Canada, and they had a Canadian Stamp on the RSVP envelope...which meant that we couldn't even use the RSVP envelope to return it to them because Canadian stamps won't work. So, we had to use our own envelope and stamp to send it back to them.

So, general rule of thumb for me is don't include American postage on RSVP envelopes sent to guests in other countries.

I agree with you