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With ~ 210 invitations going out, you can imagine the importance of keeping track of RSVP cards!
To do so, I invested in the coolest little pen ever - the blacklight/secret agent pen!!! I wanted to keep the RSVP cards looking nice. I also wanted to avoid guests feeling like they were “ranked lower” just because of their #. So, I went with the spy pen. Plus, it’s so fun to use!!!
I had numbered our guest list according to each address, and set about writing each invitation’s # with the corresponding RSVP card—this is to eliminate any confusion if the cards are illegible, or if anyone forgets to fill out the name portion (and yes, this does happen!). You can see a little line under the “Joyfully Accepts” line which says “____ of ____ will attend”.
Older Asian guests (maybe Asian guests in general…) are NOTORIOUS for bringing uninvited friends and family along with them to receptions… I wanted to eliminate any and ALL confusion about how many were included in each party.
So, for each invitation #, we also had to fill out the corresponding number of the invited persons in the second blank. Phew! Yes, it was a process, but I think this method is working well!
What the RSVP card looks like normally….
And with the magic spy light!
You can purchase similar spy pens here, on Ebay or at PaperSource!
How did you keep track of your RSVP cards?
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I love the spy pen idea! Hope your guests are sticking to those numbers!
oooh I’ll have to keep that in mind….thats a really smart and ‘keepyourmindontrack’ idea!
That’s awesome!! I bought one after I read Green Tea’s post about one!!!
That is great. I should have thought of that. I just used regular pen on the back in extremely tiny writing. Hopefully noone noticed. And I have only had 1 person send in the RSVP incomplete. So it might have been for nothing. Oh well.
That’s a great idea. I’ll probably be totally lame and write their numbers on the back of the RSVP card in plain sight. ah well.
That is awesome! I might get myself one just for the heck of it!
I bought one last time I was at Paper Source for this very reason! Of course then I couldn’t resist writing secret notes to people, but eventually I’ll use it for it’s actual purpose! 
That is the coolest ever. I never cease to be amazed at the ingenuity of WB folks!
I love those pens! I used them on my RSVPs and they saved me a lot of frustration when I got 3 back with no names. And, they are fun to play with!
Pretty cool! It might be just the thing for my secret doodling during ridiculously long staff meetings. No one would ever know! :o)
I was thinking about marking them on the back with pencil but this is much better!!
we weren’t going to do mail in RSVPs, but if my fiance saw this, he’d totally want to do it so he could get a spy pen!!
To keep track, I printed out small return address labels and attached them to each guest’s RSVP envelope so I knew who it was from even before I opened it. That way there were no numbers to keep track of. It made the whole thing really simple.
Awesome idea. I was trying to figure out how to avoid people bringing uninvited guests and I like how you wrote in the # invited on the RSVP card!
Our RSVP cards were off-white, so I used a white pen to write the numbers on the back. We sent 56 invitations, which isn’t a lot so I didn’t mind if anyone saw (no one said they did).
I did my sister’s invites too. They had over 200 invites. I numbered hers A1, A2, A3 etc. where the letter was the first letter of the last name.
We also used the king and queen stamps. On “my” guests’ reply envelopes, I used a queen stamp. On “his” guests’ reply envelopes, I used a king stamp. When they came in the mail, I opened the queen ones and he got to open his king ones.
I was going to get the black light pen but never got around to it, so we just put numbers on the back of each card really tiny… I don’t think they even noticed
Tee hee, I love how you *subtly* remind people not to bring extra uninvited guests. Genius! The letterpress reply cards are bee-utiful btw
I used @Grey56: I did the same thing - white Uniball Signo on the back right corner of Paper Source Luxe Fino in Cream
no one knew it was there but me
turns out I didn’t need that “insurance plan”
everyone filled theirs out correctly and returned them!!
Such a great idea — we’re numbering invites, too. Plus the spy pen reminds me a bit of Harriet the Spy, which makes the little kid in me want one even more.
What a great idea- I will purchase the spy pen immediately! Also, great idea to put the ___ of ___ to make sure people do not bring other “univited guests”. Great post-Ms. Ramen!
Cool! I was just going to write the number on the back, but this gives me a great excuse to buy a spy pen!
i’m going to number them as well. it’ll make it so much easier later on
I have a question. I was thinking of buying this too for our invitations. However, our invitations will be a turquoise color.
Do you think the secret pen would make the color of the invitation bleed? Please let me know.
Thanks!~
Annie
Ahh! This would have been perfect for us- my mom was so surprised I didn’t get anything like that since we did get a lot of missed names.
Procrastination… it was me.
Genius! I am not at this stage of the planning yet but I could very well have myself a spy pen within the next 24 hours. I had no idea until now that I NEED this! Thanks for the tip!
Omg, want to do. Going to do it.
I wonder if the ink ages after awhile and changes color?
That is SO COOL! I totally want to write notes back and forth with those… it would have been perfect for passing notes in school!
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Miss Ramen, Phoenix
Age and Occupation: 26, Optometry Student
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 23, Industrial Designer
Engagement Date: January 3, 2009
Wedding Date: December 2009
Venue: Phoenix Art Museum
About Me: I'm an SF-born, Seattle-raised girl, transplanted to Phoenix where I'll be getting married, and planning all the way from Orange County where I go to school (yes, it feels as crazy as it sounds). I loooooove Yogurtland, am slightly very obsessed with all things paper, am heavily addicted to wedding blogs, deeply desire a puppy, thoroughly enjoy cooking, cry when I watch (almost all) movies, thrive on solo car-karaoke, can't stop being sarcastic, am neurotic about taking pictures of almost everything I eat before I eat it, and aspire to travel the world. My super-talented fiance and I are attempting to DIY a majority of our massive (~350 guests) "clean & modern, yet romantic, but completely unexpected, with a teeny dash of vintage" wedding, stay within our not-so-massive budget, and somehow get a really luxe (but still fun!) look/feel at the same time. In music terms (since we're both really into music) think Coldplay meets Motown meets Kanye meets Sinatra.
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