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What part of RSVP do you not quite understand?
Posted by Amethyst Anne
Perhaps the word itself is confusing because it is in French, so let me break it down. ( accents have been omitted )
R- Respondez
S- S'il
V- Vous
P- Plait
English translation: Please respond.
Perhaps you have seen another favorite, "the favour of a reply"
Common courtesy dictates that you reply to the sender when you see either of these two messages on the bottom of an invitation.
Apparently, this is not the case where I live.
I am a Mom, and a fiercely protective one of my one and only cub. Said cub has a birthday coming up at which point he will be turning 6. My cub has timing issues, his birthday is almost exactly two weeks before Christmas. This is not a good time to have a birthday, let alone have a party.
Last year for his first real, just invite my friends party we had it, on his birthday, and well 3 kids showed up, out of 8 invited. We only had RSVP's from 4 of the 8. This pissed me off for a number of reasons and I ached for my cub, but I was angered by the lack of response.
We thought part of the problem was that the party was at our house and too close to Christmas. We moved on and decided that for this year we would save up and do something cool and have it earlier so that our cub could have a big birthday party like all of his friends.
This year we are doing a movie theatre party, with pizza, cake and a movie- paid for by us. This comes to some relief for me as I don't actually have to have a whack of rug rats infiltrating my home and some one else has to clean up the mess. *does a little dance*
We decided that we would let our cub invite as many kids as he wanted, which got us a list of 16.
16 invitations went out, with a RSVP date of yesterday, because we have to confirm numbers with the movie theatre today. Of the 16 invitations that went out ( a couple hand delivered by me) I have heard back from 6 ! Of those 6, 4 are coming. Which leaves me to wonder what the hell happened to the other 10?
Now don't get me wrong, I am actually quite relieved that only 4 will be coming and not 16, I can actually breathe right now. But this is an aside to my point.
10 people out there couldn't be bothered to reply. I don't care why you can't come, I don't care that you have some family-member-birthday-out-of-town-visiting-monkeys-just-got-released-from-jail- type shindig going on. All I care to hear is Yes my kid can come or No my kid cannot come. But common courtesy dictates that you let me know either way.
I know that my cub is going to have a great day, and in the end he won't care who did or didn't call. And I know that yet again this year we will go to more parties than we have kids coming to his.
Meanwhile I am working on the invitations for next year.
Next year, the invitations, will contain a timed RSVP monitor. If I don't hear from you, the invitation will transform into a large hand that will whack you on the back of your head whilst shouting "You fuck nut - RSVP means reply ! "
R- Respondez
S- S'il
V- Vous
P- Plait
English translation: Please respond.
Perhaps you have seen another favorite, "the favour of a reply"
Common courtesy dictates that you reply to the sender when you see either of these two messages on the bottom of an invitation.
Apparently, this is not the case where I live.
I am a Mom, and a fiercely protective one of my one and only cub. Said cub has a birthday coming up at which point he will be turning 6. My cub has timing issues, his birthday is almost exactly two weeks before Christmas. This is not a good time to have a birthday, let alone have a party.
Last year for his first real, just invite my friends party we had it, on his birthday, and well 3 kids showed up, out of 8 invited. We only had RSVP's from 4 of the 8. This pissed me off for a number of reasons and I ached for my cub, but I was angered by the lack of response.
We thought part of the problem was that the party was at our house and too close to Christmas. We moved on and decided that for this year we would save up and do something cool and have it earlier so that our cub could have a big birthday party like all of his friends.
This year we are doing a movie theatre party, with pizza, cake and a movie- paid for by us. This comes to some relief for me as I don't actually have to have a whack of rug rats infiltrating my home and some one else has to clean up the mess. *does a little dance*
We decided that we would let our cub invite as many kids as he wanted, which got us a list of 16.
16 invitations went out, with a RSVP date of yesterday, because we have to confirm numbers with the movie theatre today. Of the 16 invitations that went out ( a couple hand delivered by me) I have heard back from 6 ! Of those 6, 4 are coming. Which leaves me to wonder what the hell happened to the other 10?
Now don't get me wrong, I am actually quite relieved that only 4 will be coming and not 16, I can actually breathe right now. But this is an aside to my point.
10 people out there couldn't be bothered to reply. I don't care why you can't come, I don't care that you have some family-member-birthday-out-of-town-visiting-monkeys-just-got-released-from-jail- type shindig going on. All I care to hear is Yes my kid can come or No my kid cannot come. But common courtesy dictates that you let me know either way.
I know that my cub is going to have a great day, and in the end he won't care who did or didn't call. And I know that yet again this year we will go to more parties than we have kids coming to his.
Meanwhile I am working on the invitations for next year.
Next year, the invitations, will contain a timed RSVP monitor. If I don't hear from you, the invitation will transform into a large hand that will whack you on the back of your head whilst shouting "You fuck nut - RSVP means reply ! "
