We send invitations for a reason..
March 11th, 2010
…pet peeve – when people don’t respond to invitations, why do you think we send them? Cos they look pretty?
Well yes they do look pretty for sure, but we send them because we want to know if you are coming to an event or not – if there is a deadline on the invitation for when you need to respond then why leave it until the day before the deadline? Or even, as has happened a few times, tell me in a general ‘in passing’ way a few days after the deadline that you’ll ‘see me there’. What? If you are coming then reply to the invite, don’t think I sent it just for fun.
Being the polite soul I am though I would never turn around and tell any one ‘sorry too late’ as that’d be rude but it does really wind me up when people do it.
When I get an invite I check my diary to see if I can go and respond right away, usually within a day or two – it’s not hard!
