RSVP Response Cards = Fun Reading

I mean it. They’re really fun to read when people write something inside. Whether they write something clever or sweet, they’re enjoyable. And since your attention span can’t handle anything longer than a few lines right now (I’m guessing because that’s my case), it makes for the only literary entertainment we can handle.

Once upon a time, people didn’t need response cards. When they received a written invitation, they would RSVP on their own stationery, offering congratulations and whether or not they would be able to attend.

Times have certainly changed. My aunt recently told me a funny story. Years back when she had made a party, she marked faintly in pencil the number corresponding to the guest in case they didn’t write their names on the card. Well, her friends knew that my aunt wrote it discreetly on the inside of the envelope rather than the back of the card, so they decided to play a trick: they all erased their numbers, didn’t write their names, and mailed off the cards. My aunt had no idea who was coming until her friends fessed up. As she and I say all the time: “Everything’s funny when it’s not happening to you.”

Wedding RSVPs The Etiquette of Response Cards [About.com]

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