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With 1/3 of the results in… I can proudly declare that the time I spent designing our RSVP card was well worth it! I’ve heard the RSVP horror stories and I vowed to try my best to completely avoid it… and I think I can safely say that I succeeded! (I spent a lot of time in graduate level statistics courses analyzing the error rates attributed to confusing forms and questionnaires, so I’m hoping this one nabs me an A in the end! )

So, what does a good RSVP have on it? For me, it needed to have room for the full names for all guests, their personal meal choices (since our place cards must indicate their meal choice), as well as their hotel information if they were coming from out of town. So, when I ran across this design from Good on Paper Design, I knew it was the perfect choice! None of the invited parties had more than 5 guests, so the number of lines excluded some sort of crazy “I’m bringing 22 people” response… and I think that my psuedo-inner envelope helped out by indicating exactly “who” was invited by making it very obvious.

Each guest had their own line with two questions to answer: Are you coming and what are you eating? Now, keep in mind that I did not fill in any of the lines for my guests and each returned card has had a clearly written first and last name for each guest, as well as their meal choice, arrival date and hotel information clearly stated. I didn’t include a kids meal choice, since only a few kids are coming, but all of the moms clearly stated (KID) on the form and asked if another meal was available.

So… I’ve got an easy meal count, the correct names for everyone, and the right spot to drop off OOT goodies! Success!

Did anyone come across RSVP successes or failures due to the format they used?