Wedding Invitations

Replying To Wedding Invitations UK

My best friend was getting married. I was aware of this fact the moment she was proposed by her beloved boyfriend, they being involved in this romantic affair for more than 1 year; everybody was expecting to hear about the wedding event taking place sooner or later. The point is that her lover was British and they were planning to have their wedding in one of the picturesque landscapes offered by the good old England. Attached to the wedding invitation was a reservation for my flight which was made with so many months in advance as I knew that the prices were really cheap when booking in advance.




Actually she did the same with all her close friends, not more than 4 (me included, as well), and her family members. I was wondering where she was supposed to host all the guests as there were also the guests coming on her lover’s side as well. But since none of these problems was mine, I took a closer look at the wedding card. It was accompanied by an RSVP card having a latest date by which the invitees were requested to answer. But thinking of the fact that these invitations belonged to a British couple, if I may say, I saw myself in the situation of beating my brains with replying to wedding invitation UK style of answering.

Was there something different, I mean, the UK etiquette was any way different than the one required for the majority of the RSVP cards? All I knew and I was positive on this, was that it was polite on my behalf to answer much earlier than the date inscribed as the latest date for the RSVP. I knew that knowing much sooner the number of the guests attending to one’s wedding it was way easier for the particular couple to go on with the planning even if the latest date of response was already given.

My friend’s wedding invitation contained such a response card with postage paid return envelopes (a thing that I have found to be very considerate on the couple’s behalf) and the card had also inserted a dotted line to be filled in with the number if the guests responding for that specific wedding invitation. I instantly filled in with 2, though I hadn’t previously checked with my boyfriend and as much as I knew that it wasn’t polite on my behalf to fill in with an extra number of person attending, I was aware of the fact that she had no clue about my boyfriend’s address and telephone number as well.

So it went without saying that the card was actually meant to invite us both, as long as the names of the addressee’s belonged to both of us on the outer side of the envelope. This was at least of my problems, the point was that I had already written 2 in the place meant for the number of the attendees without previously asking my boyfriend. Generally speaking we are able to get our holidays in a total dependence of one another, but who knows this time what could happen?

Therefore, I grabbed the phone and called my boyfriend asking him what were his plans for the date of 03 July this year. He laughed and he instantly replied that maybe he would have to attend to a wedding event in UK and thus I went on positively replying to wedding invitation UK being one of the countries I had been yearning for so long to visit and with my friend’s wedding there came the opportunity as well.