Okay...for anybody who has not yet sent them out or better yet, paid for them. If you are banking on that 15% to say No....DO NOT SEND OUT SAVE THE DATES....Well maybe only to Out Of Towner's. My experience with them is as follows:
EVERYONE HAS SAVED THE DATE AND IS COMING TO MY WEDDING.....not kidding!
Mind you, I have not received all of my RSVP's just yet, but it's not looking good on my end in the 'No' category.
This is just a friendly posting to anybody who is expecting a set of amount of 'No's'
SoonToBeMrsBrady
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By the way, I love my STD's. I created them myself on vistaprint.com with my awesome engagement photos.....but if I knew then, what I know now, I would have only sent them to the OOT 'ers. JMHO.
Maria31
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Didn't you send them a Save the Date because you wanted them at your wedding???
donegal419
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um, you're ONLY supposed to send save the dates to the people you absolutely want and need those people at the wedding!!!
i did not send any to people from work, friends from college, etc. because i needed to see who i would be able to invite once the family was accounted for. you cannot send an STD and then not invite them to the wedding.
pa56
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We ordered just 15 save the dates and sent them to people who live far away (would need to fly in for the wedding) just in case they needed time for travel arrangements.
We sent a link to our wedding website to everyone else we were definitely going to invite.
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the no rsvp's do come in and come in towards the end.
Its funny because the whole time i was planning, i was SOOOO afraid of going over our minimum. Last minute before doing our invites, certain people were not invited. Made me feel a little bit better about not going over my minimum but still was a little worried and then got worried about maybe even being under our minimum. Well let me say that i jinxed myself hahaha. At first I was getting tons of yes responses. At one point my count was something like 200 yes and 17 no. Then all of a sudden all the no responses came in and I even ended up being under my minimum guess not inviting a whole group of people screwed us over. We weren't under by alot but in the end it worked out great because they threw in a bunch of things and i was happy with those things.
tstaa1vw
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Thats the exacy reason we didnt send them....our minimum is 150 and 150 are coming (we invited 240)
LoriBeth2728
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I wish that everyone would come to my wedding :(
NoraPearl
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I just sent to the immediate family and out of towners. People will say no when the invitations go out so don't worry
lanamanitta
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Haha. I've heard this can happen . . . . Good luck, and in the end, the more the merrier (but more expensive, I know!)
jeffamanda080808
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I sent STD's to all our guests a year before the wedding and still half of my family decided no RSVP no.
you are right..that is why i only sent them to relatives and close friends...not the entire guest lists...I new it may change come time to send the actual invitations...!
DeeluvsVinny
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I sent STDs to MOST people on my list..and I still have a bunch of no's.
A whole group of my cousins got the STDs and planned their bachelor/bachelorette parties (for the weekend in Vegas and Mexico) for the weekend of my wedding, even though their wedding isn't until November. The people who want to come will and the people who don't or can't, won't.
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I too have some regret for sending out STD's... Although I do want everyone (mostly ) to come, I would not invite some of the people now. I am hoping because my wedding is Thanksgiving weekend a few dozen cant come (And by those I mean people I have never met before... ehhh hemm... FMIL's friends)... It's getting to be so expensive.
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I wish I had your problem because even though we sent out STDs, we are under our mininum. My RH is not throwing in anything extra either...just splitting the difference with us BTW you get most no responses towards the end or after the response date so you might still be OK!!!
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I'm handing out STDs at the engagement party, which is just for family and bridal party. Hopefully this will be beneficial in the end - cause everyone invited to the engagement party is definitely invited to the wedding!
yswedding
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Ever consider that people might actually like you and want to come to your wedding
Maybe its not the STDs
mls282
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Posted by yswedding
Ever consider that people might actually like you and want to come to your wedding
Maybe its not the STDs
Aww... thats cute
SoonToBeMrsBrady
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Posted by JJC
you are right..that is why i only sent them to relatives and close friends...not the entire guest lists...I new it may change come time to send the actual invitations...!
That's what I should have done!
SoonToBeMrsBrady
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Posted by mls282
Posted by yswedding
Ever consider that people might actually like you and want to come to your wedding
Maybe its not the STDs
Aww... thats cute
Awww...I didn't think of it that way. Also, the venue we chose, nobody from our neighborhood has gotten married there yet, so a lot of people are curious to see it. Ah, whatever happens happens. It's out of my hands now!
