RSVP Wording

Ok, so looks like we're ordering our invitations sometime in the near future and I need help with wording. I'm worried about the RSVP thing, this is what I was going to use...



M____________________________


_____ will attend with pleasure
_____ declines with regret


Kindly respond on or before the
1st of June


Which I like, but I have a huge fear that the people invited without a guest can put 2 people there or people with kids who aren't invited with kids would put there kids there - and I can't afford any extra people!

I found this wording online, but I feel like it looks rude, opinions please?

Kindly respond on or before June 1st

____ seats have been reserved in your honor (and I'd fill in the blank, but with pen, it wouldn't be printed obviously because they would be different.)

M__________________

____ accepts with pleasure
____ declines with regret
____ of ___ will attend




Or something along those lines, what do you think? Feel free to mix and match if you can give me some advice, please


Thank You!!

We did not have children at our 200 person wedding and made a point of very tactfully spreading the word verbally. This worked out very well for us and everyone understood - or at least said they did haha! We sent out STDs and let everyone know well in advance that we would not be having kids at our evening wedding so everyone was able to find child care with plenty of time.

We used a VERY traditional BLANK RSVP. It simply said 'The pleasure of a response is requested by...' and everyone was gracious enough to respond with the correct # of people.

We invited EVERY adult over the age of 18 with a guest.

I was very upfront on my RSVPS's about how many were invited. They went something along the lines of:

Mr. & Mrs. John Smith

Two seats have been reserved in your honor

____Yes, ___ of us will attend
____Regretfully declines

Seriously, this wording was foolproof. There were no additional add-ons and it was easy to track how many people were coming from each household.

HTH!

we plan on doing something along the lines of:

M________________________

___ seats have been reserved in your honor

___ Accept with pleasure
___ Decline with regret


I don't want to have to worry about 'add ons' so we'll be writing how many ppl are invited.