So the response card.
I love the little tiny beautiful cards and sending them to my guests and waiting for them to reply is something I'm embarrassingly excited for.
But
I can't help thinking of all the PAPER! I'm attached to a recycled paper product for the invites anyway, but to enclose three pieces of additional paper into an envelope with the invitation seems terribly wasteful. I am consequently wondering if I can tastefully add a line to the RSVP card about responding via email. Not that that *really* saves any paper because they will print envelopes with my parents address on them anyway, and I'd still have to include them in the invitation for those who will not RSVP online (older generation, firm traditionalists, hermits etc) but I would like to at least make the nod to those who would definitely prefer an online response and not include an envelope for them?
Anyone else worried about trees?
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Monday, July 12, 2010
So it begins
We've been engaged for a week as of a few hours ago. The most common question is
"have you set a date?"
The trouble is, setting a date means having
1. A venue
2. The permission of the people in charge of the venue
3. Made deposits, arrangements, decisions etc
I will say we're well on our way. A longtime favorite restaurant of mine in New York will let us take it over on a Saturday afternoon, and my very amazing Dad found a historic church about fifteen minutes from our house in New York that seems like it can handle our multiple-denominational marriage. Drama continues on the sibling front (his) with a comment passed at dinner that his brother in law may refuse, for religious reasons, to attend the ceremony. To which my response is "OK, see you at the reception, or when we get back from our honeymoon!"
BUT
Is it too much to ask that someone show up at a service for a religion they are not part of when you did the same for their wedding? Heaven knows five days after his sister was engaged no one was sitting her down and asking her how she was accommodating ME. I'm not saying anyone should have, either, just that the expectation that someone is going to change the date or venue of their wedding to accommodate your preferences seems a little...much?
"have you set a date?"
The trouble is, setting a date means having
1. A venue
2. The permission of the people in charge of the venue
3. Made deposits, arrangements, decisions etc
I will say we're well on our way. A longtime favorite restaurant of mine in New York will let us take it over on a Saturday afternoon, and my very amazing Dad found a historic church about fifteen minutes from our house in New York that seems like it can handle our multiple-denominational marriage. Drama continues on the sibling front (his) with a comment passed at dinner that his brother in law may refuse, for religious reasons, to attend the ceremony. To which my response is "OK, see you at the reception, or when we get back from our honeymoon!"
BUT
Is it too much to ask that someone show up at a service for a religion they are not part of when you did the same for their wedding? Heaven knows five days after his sister was engaged no one was sitting her down and asking her how she was accommodating ME. I'm not saying anyone should have, either, just that the expectation that someone is going to change the date or venue of their wedding to accommodate your preferences seems a little...much?
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
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