Response card turnaround time?

[apirateslifeforme]

Does anyone know offhand what percentage of response cards they didn't receive? My "groomzilla" is getting nervous...our venue wants a count by next Saturday, September 10. We sent out 35 invitations/71 people a month ago. The responses had our address preprinted and we put stamps on them. We've only received 21 responses/41 people. I have a few that I'm positive won't respond at all , but most of the missing have indicated to either me or my MIL that they received the invitation.

It's been over a week since we received anything. Groomzilla is threatening to start calling people this week. I personally think the venue wants things too early, but not much I can do about that except explain that to our guests.

 

[Chilly]

When was the RSVP date?

 

[Nichole33]

Did you put a "please respond by ..." (or something similar) on the response card? We gave our guests a month to respond and allowed a week for mailing. We got a good deal of responses right away and the rest waited until right near or shortly after the deadline.

There is no harm in a pleasant "reminder" to respond text/e-mail/phone call if you need the numbers.

 

[apirateslifeforme]

We put "Please respond on or before September 10, 2011" on the cards. I just figured that there will be some people who won't know what they want to eat a month out...heck, I'm not sure if I'll want my choice!

I hate to blame this all on my fiance, but he's worse than I am when it comes to this wedding...who'd have thought that the groom would be in such a state? But that's another thread...

 

[Chilly]

We put "Please respond on or before September 10, 2011" on the cards. I just figured that there will be some people who won't know what they want to eat a month out...heck, I'm not sure if I'll want my choice!

I hate to blame this all on my fiance, but he's worse than I am when it comes to this wedding...who'd have thought that the groom would be in such a state? But that's another thread...

I don't think you can really chase people until after the RSVP date and they've still got a week to go.

 

[One_Song]

I don't think you can really chase people until after the RSVP date and they've still got a week to go.

Agreed. We started calling people 5 days after our RSVP deadline.

 

[beautifultomorrow]

If you're still that far out from you rsvp deadline you're doing better than we did. We sentout 87 invites for our wedding (not at disney), by the time the deadline came I think we had gotten back just over half. All said and done we received about 2/3 back. I was irritated by that and wished I had made the deadline sooner. Even with all that we still had 12 people (most of them fairly close relatives!) Decide to no show day of wedding that had rsvped

I hope the count the venue wants that day isn't a "hard number"? You will definitely get some cards back after that if that's also your rsvp deadline. We had at least a week in between rsvp deadline and first count due and that was not enough.