Do you all know what RSVP means?
As per wiki it is "Répondez s'il vous plaît", a French phrase that translates to "please respond".
During the last few months, Anita (my wife) and I had the honor of hosting a couple of events and we send out invitations with instructions to do RSVP in advance. However, the responses have been plain simple unexpected. There were few (very few) who promptly RSVP ed with a Yay or a Nay..then there were others who had to be called up to find out about their intentions and then there were others (the most number) who didn't RSVP ed at all but did show up at the events - with additional guests. We thought may be we did it all wrong - may be instead of impersonal online tools as evites , pinggs, mypunchbowl and facebook-events we should have used personal paper-card invitation. We did the same for one event. 70 people RSVP ed and 54 showed up!!
May be RSVP is to French for our guests...after all French was the language of the high society in the 19th century in the United States. May be its time to pick up the phone and make a quick call to the guests and make sure of their attendance (or absence). We will keep you posted for the next event :)
1 comment:
Hate to tell you this, but people are just plain rude. They know full well what RSVP means, and to not do it and then show up with others is really really rude. I'd tend not to invite those people again.
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