RSVPs

There's nothing like opening up your mailbox to find little shimmery azalea colored envelopes. I wanted to share with my readers some of my favorite things about my RSVPs. I love our little rudimentary filing system for the RSVPs...

I also love our RSVP by date. You see my Abuelita who passed away last year would have been 80 on 7/17/2010 so I wanted to honor her memory in a small way on our RSVPs. No one was supposed to notice but I got a lot of happy-tear phone calls from my family thanking me for it. Just looking at her birthday gives me the warm-fuzzies....

 Moving onto more funny things... we got some wacky write-ins. Now, we had pretty standard/formal invitations so you wouldn't really expect anything more exciting than "Mr. & Mrs. Smith" and then the number "2". But here are some highlights... 

The last one is extra special funny, because I had asked my mom on SEVERAL occasions to send me her list. Well she never did, despite my constant pestering. My mom decided to invite her best friend Elena without telling me, and then called me to say she had invited Elena and would that be okay? Oh Moms!

And of course they wouldn't be complete without our secret code....this is what you see....

And this is what we see...

Did your RSVPs make you cry, laugh, and smile like mine did? Or am I crazy?

Unanticipated Guests

Well readers, all I can do is siiiigh. Please do not interpret this as a rant, this is intended to be therapeutic to me, as i know this isn't the end of the world. I get that not everyone understands wedding etiquette...

Emily Post's Wedding Guest Etiquette

Almost all of our guests understand this very important principle, but there have been one or two who have added a plus one to their single selves. I would however like to correct Miss Post by saying I would LOVE it if I were asked about a plus one, chances are I would say yes, but when you just tack one on I have to scurry around in a tizzy because my venue has a hard and fast 45 seated capacity.

Wedding Chaos

The friendship of these people means a lot to me, hence why they are on our very small guest list. So of course my newly coupled friends can bring their dates, but there's still a tiny bit of me that's afraid it may get out of hand. We can only seat 45 people, I know I've said this already. But our anticipated guest list is already at 59, including 7 who will be on the altar, leaving 52 guests in 45 seats.We haven't heard from everyone yet, so my fingers are crossed that it won't be a musical chairs for the chapel seats.

Have you had to take a deep breath when dealing with wedding planning and just hope that everything works out okay? If so what are your techniques for dealing with the stress? I'd love to hear them!!