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We are inviting 230 people to our wedding. We are having numbered tables with place cards. My fiancee and I think that if people do not R.S.V.P. they shouldn't be served dinner. We were thinking of having one of our hostesses advise them that their name is not on the list because they didn't send back their response card. The seated dinner is for those who responded to their invitation, but they are welcome to wait until the dancing begins. What is your advise?
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Posted 17 July 2025 - 09:59 AM
Dear Deanna:
Not serving dinner to guests who have been rude by not replying to your invitation would really make you rude in return and I'm sure that is not your intention. There are a number of reasons why people don't respond including their invitation being lost in the mail.
If you do have guests showing up who have not replied to your invitation be a gracious host and notify the banquet manager. He or she will know how to deal with these situations; unfortunately this happens frequently.
As you can see, on this board alone, there are many who do not understand proper etiquette. It is not your job, as host, to instill these values or to teach your guests. Everytime I go out to dinner there is some other patron who insists on blowing their nose right at their dinner table while others are eating. Disgusting and obviously inappropriate but even though I know this is wrong for them to do I resist the temptation to walk over and hand them a copy of Emily Post's lastest book on etiquette, opened to the page on table manners, and explaining how it is unacceptable to burp or blow one's nose at the table! Please resist the temptation to tell your invited wedding guests what's right! [:)]
Enjoy the planning process!
Not serving dinner to guests who have been rude by not replying to your invitation would really make you rude in return and I'm sure that is not your intention. There are a number of reasons why people don't respond including their invitation being lost in the mail.
If you do have guests showing up who have not replied to your invitation be a gracious host and notify the banquet manager. He or she will know how to deal with these situations; unfortunately this happens frequently.
As you can see, on this board alone, there are many who do not understand proper etiquette. It is not your job, as host, to instill these values or to teach your guests. Everytime I go out to dinner there is some other patron who insists on blowing their nose right at their dinner table while others are eating. Disgusting and obviously inappropriate but even though I know this is wrong for them to do I resist the temptation to walk over and hand them a copy of Emily Post's lastest book on etiquette, opened to the page on table manners, and explaining how it is unacceptable to burp or blow one's nose at the table! Please resist the temptation to tell your invited wedding guests what's right! [:)]
Enjoy the planning process!
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