{"id":35252,"date":"2014-12-09T07:54:37","date_gmt":"2014-12-08T20:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/content.easyweddings.com\/au\/articles\/exactly-rsvp-mean\/"},"modified":"2021-11-10T03:35:45","modified_gmt":"2021-11-09T16:35:45","slug":"exactly-rsvp-mean","status":"publish","type":"au-article","link":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/articles\/exactly-rsvp-mean\/","title":{"rendered":"What exactly does RSVP mean?"},"content":{"rendered":" A simple and elegant RSVP card from Luxe Stationery.<\/a>\n

Every time we go shopping for wedding invitations<\/a>, we are asked if we would like RSVP cards. I know what they are and why many couples include them, but I’m a little too shy to ask what exactly RSVP stands for. Could you please help?<\/p>\n

Oh, you’re soooo not alone in asking this question!<\/p>\n

We all know what the general concept of an RSVP is: They’re a response to an invitation, typically, an acceptance or a refusal, perhaps, even an undecided.<\/p>\n

The actual phrase, RSVP, comes from the French term ‘Repondez, s’il vous plait<\/em>,’ which roughly translates to ‘Please reply’.<\/p>\n

When used in on a wedding invitation<\/a> (or any invitation, for that matter), it effectively asks the invitee to ‘Please reply and tell us whether or not you will be attending our event.’<\/p>\n

The term RSVP is usually followed by a date by which a reply should be received. That way, the couple marrying can finalise figures and finances with regards to seating, catering etc, before their big day.<\/p>\n

By including RSVP cards with your wedding invitations (or, perhaps, an email address or phone number via which guests can RSVP), you provide guests with a quick, easy and effective means of informing you whether or not they will be attending your wedding.<\/p>\n

It helps with your wedding planning because you’ll have a general idea of how many people will be attending your wedding in time to work out logistics and numbers. Unfortunately, even if you do include RSVP cards – or another means of RSVPing to you – many guests won’t reply on time, usually because they’ll forget to do so.<\/p>\n

Don’t fret. Here’s our advice for ensuring you find out who is attending your wedding in a timely fashion.<\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35253,"template":"","au_article_tag":[450,32,635,30],"class_list":["post-35252","au-article","type-au-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","au_article_category-weddinginvitations","au_article_tag-ask-samantha","au_article_tag-invitations","au_article_tag-rsvp","au_article_tag-wedding-invitations"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/au-article\/35252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/au-article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/au-article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/au-article\/35252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"au_article_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/au_article_tag?post=35252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}