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RSVP failed to deliver!!

  • 27-04-2010 2:32pm
    #1
    Plumella
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41 ✭


    I have just found out that a person who I work with that invited me to their wedding did not receive the RSVP that I sent to them some 3 weeks ago!

    I posted a beautiful card with letter explaining the circumstances which have rendered me unable to attend their day. ( I felt a letter setting out my reasons and upset at missing the day far more appropriate then a call, based on my own experiance of weddings and guests).

    The person in question has known for months that I would be unable to attend the full days events and that I would arrive instead for the evening and following day events. However my circumstances since then have changed.

    As I have been based in a different office for over a month I was not aware at this persons annoyance in not receiving an RSVP from me which I have just found out after a fellow colleague contacted me to see why I 'hadn't bothered' to respond?!

    I was shocked, and now I am faced with ringing this person and explaining that A, I posted a card, and B, I am not going at all...or wouls I be better to pen an email, or send another card?

    The wedding is in 3 weeks, but the principal of replying within the RSVP time has passed....

    Any thoughts?


Comments

  • #2
    Speak Now
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,750 ✭✭✭Speak Now


    Ring them ,tell them! What else is there?


  • #3
    mikeanywhere
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,735 ✭✭✭mikeanywhere


    Jerry Seinfeld wrote: »
    Ring them ,tell them! What else is there?

    +1


  • #4
    Plumella
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41 ✭Plumella


    Thanks for your comments - but wouldn't the person think that this is some sort of excuse for not responding? Which really is my main concern.


  • #5
    Speak Now
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,750 ✭✭✭Speak Now


    Plumella wrote: »
    Thanks for your comments - but wouldn't the person think that this is some sort of excuse for not responding? Which really is my main concern.

    Don't be second guessing their respone, face to face or ringing is the best option. It'll nip it in the bud. Make sure you get a decent present though ;) e-mailing or sending a late RSVP and they will think you forgot/didnt bother.


  • #6
    rainbowtrout
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,404 ✭✭✭✭rainbowtrout


    I don't understand why this is an issue. Ring the person, tell them you sent an RSVP, it obviously didn't get there, and you've only just been alerted to the fact by mutual friends/colleagues. You didn't do it on purpose and you're being honest, what more are you supposed to do?


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