Weddingbee Blog

Yo dudes and dudettes. I’m finally ready to share the Skunks’ RSVP turn out.

We sent out 83 of the 85 invitations that we bought. I ended up giving the other two to my mom, so now, I sadly don’t even have one for myself. Those invitations belonged to 168 potential guests.

That number may or may not be right. I tried to guess whether or not whole families would come or not. And while I didn’t count little babies, I counted bigger babies if I thought they might eat or have a beer. (You never know, we Skunks get wild.)

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I thought I’d thought of everything when it came to the reply cards.

I numbered them in the top right corner and had those numbers linked to an Excel file and thought that the wording was as simple as possible. But when they started trickling in I realized that while it has a line for name and a space to fill in for the number of guests attending, I kept having to guess as to whether ’1 guest attending’ meant that person planned to bring a guest or if that meant they were only RSVPing for themselves.

For the most part we made some educated guesses and we are currently looking at 103 guests. Fourteen potential guests have given no RSVP of any sort (card, Facebook message, carrier pigeon), so we’re assuming they won’t be making it. And to those few jokester guests who have RSVPed for 78 or 50 guests, I hope they’ll bring their own sack dinners.

I’m so happy with our final number. At first we worried that no one would come because aside from my parents and their neighbors, the closest guest lives about an hour from the venue. Skunkster and I were hoping for about 100 guests but then the guest list grew and we had people RSVPing who weren’t even invited (oh yes folks, there will be at least four wedding crashers) we were a little concerned. But it’s turned out perfect. I’m a happy skunk!

Did your RSVP count come in around where you expected, or were you surprised by the turnout?