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I was so excited to mail our invitations a couple of weeks back, and starting the day after we sent them, we’ve received two response cards each day! I love seeing those little envelopes show up in the mail… and, our guests have really gotten into the Madlibs aspect of our response cards, so we’ve had some fun responses.
I thought I’d share some of the standout cards… the last line of the card says:
Don’t forget to ________ [advice] after you _______[advice]!
In retrospect, we wish we had set up our cards differently so that everyone would fill this out, regardless of whether or not they’re attending (right now, this is for those who can’t make it). Fortunately, our guests are having fun filling this line out whether or not they’re attending!
Card #1 - Life Advice
From my dad’s cousin and his wife - “Don’t forget to brush your teeth after every meal!” Sound advice if you ask me!
Card #2 - Financial Advice
From my dad’s friend who cannot make the wedding and enclosed a check with his response card - “Don’t forget to cash check after the wedding quickly!” Duly noted.
Card #3 - Relationship Advice
From Melanie and Joe, our good friends (Joe is an usher in the wedding) - “Don’t forget to consummate your marriage after the wedding I dos.” Umm, we’ll work on that one… is that built into the timeline?!
We’ve had a lot of other fun cards about eating our cake, saving room for dessert, relaxing the day after, etc. So great!
Our guests who are attending get to fill in the line that they will be ready to _______ [verb] with us…party, get crunk and celebrate are the most common for this line.
Even though we didn’t set the card up perfectly, we’re so glad we made the RSVPs interactive and I think it will be so much fun to look back on these after we have them all and then do something special with the funny ones!
Did your RSVP cards have a twist to them?
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How fun! I thought this was such a cool idea to really encourage people to write something fun for your RSVPs - it’s so cool that they are following through, too!!
Cute idea! We asked for advice to be written on the reverse of our RSVPs. So far only about 1/3 of our 12 RSVPs have anything written on them, but the ones that do are pretty fun!
Fun! We left one line blank, with the MadLib-like instruction of (Exclamation) beneath it. We’ve gotten everything from “Can’t wait!” to, um, things I can’t post here.
I love this idea! Anyway to get the guests more active in the wedding! Our RSVP is just the traditional type, but now I have to re-think it! I may be stealing this idea! Hope you don’t mind!
I’m so glad yours turned out well!! I too did the Mad Lib RSVP. We just sent out our invitations this week, and I’m a bit apprehensive about our guests’ responses! I hope ours will be as fun as yours!!
How fun 
Our RSVPs didn’t have a fun place to write anything, but we had a space at the bottom for ppl to specify any food allergies and a lot of ppl have written us notes there.
after reading this, i want my rsvp cards to have a fun twist. i am loving those responses. so fun!
Love your replies-such a cute idea! We had pretty straightforward reply cards, but you mentioning whether consummating the marriage would be on the time-line made me remember something that my husband put on our master time-line that EVERYONE saw! (shockingly he did not include “consummating the marriage”). Behold: “Eileen’s bikini wax-9AM”. His mother called that morning to ask how it went. Nice.
Those are adorable. I’m looking forward to hearing the best replies after they are all in.
I love the idea of wedding Mad Libs! Yet another idea for our invites…
What a fun idea!
We added a space for people to answer “what song will get you on the dance floor?” and I can’t wait till the responses start pouring in!
That’s really cool! So far not too many of my RSVPs have had interesting responses. That would make it even more fun! (I already get excited when the mail comes every day so I can see how many RSVPs we’ve gotten!)
I wouldn’t call ours a twist, but we had a line for people to add any well wishes or anything. It was funny, though, because it just left everyone confused, lol.
This is a good way of getting to know the personalities of family members you haven’t had the opportunity to meet yet…even if it’s just a couple of words!
Those are really fun. I like that you used the RSVP cards as an opportunity to let your friends be funny!
@eileen marie: HA!
@Miss Mouse: I practically race home to get the mail and beat Mr. S to it…he doesn’t get nearly excited as me! But no matter what we NEVER get more than 2 RSVPS a day…I think the mailman is holding out on me.
I am so stealing this idea from you. Hope you don’t mind! It goes with our quirky personalities, haha.
Haha, I love that people are having fun with this portion of your RSVP card. They’ll be great keepsakes!
I love yout little twist on your RSVPs! How fun! Ours won’t have one though. Just the plain “yes”, “no” and how many.
Those are so fun…I bet you’ll get back some really funny ones!!
Oh those are just adorable! I loved the idea when you first posted about it…so glad to see that people are enjoying them! I would have been thinking so hard of what to write!
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Mrs. Stiletto, Chicago
Age and Occupation: 26, Non-Profit/Fundraising
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 26, Engineer and Photographer
Engagement Date: March 2, 2008
Wedding Date: September 2009
Venue: The 19th Century Club
About Me: My fiance and I love living in the city of Chicago with our cats Basil and Linus, and vow to never move to the suburbs if we can possibly avoid it! We’ve poured ourselves into planning a wedding that reflects our personal style - modern and high contrast with a vintage twist. Blogging keeps me creative, baking keeps me happy, and grande nonfat no foam sugar free vanilla lattes keep me sane.
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