Forget RSVP... Respond Dammit!

I'm really upset with the RSVP response, or rather the LACK of RSVP response, that I've gotten for Annabelle's birthday party. I'm not talking about those of you who read my blog... I know who of you is able to come and who isn't, but I'm talking about the parents of the kids at Belle's school. Only ONE (besides Nikki, of course) has RSVPed for her birthday party that is in less than 5 days! I am not so much upset that people don't want to come to "my" party, but I know that Annabelle is SOOO excited about "all my friends coming to my Land Before Time birthday party", and so far, only 2 of them from school are coming... that I know of. Now, it could be that parents just don't respond nowadays and all of them are going to show up at the party with their whole families (since the invitation did say "siblings welcome", but it also said to rsvp for all attendees), but then if that happens, I won't be prepared food-wise or with the right number of party favors. As someone who is usually really good about RSVPing, this really seems rude. And as the mother of a nearly 3-year-old who thinks that all of her friends from school are going to be at her birthday party and specifically talks about certain kids, it hurts me to think that she might be disappointed because those kids might not come and I can't prepare her for that. I probably sound totally ridiculous complaining about this, but it bothers me enough that I asked the teacher to mention it to the parents as they picked their kids up today (yet still haven't gotten ANY additional responses from that if she did do it) AND I'm sitting in a parking lot stealing internet at 1:30 in the morning just because I wanted to see if maybe I got RSVPs by email that I somehow missed (and no, I didn't). :(

8 comments:

Sally said...

That sucks. I'm a stickler for RSVPing and it's just rude not to.

Christina said...

I'm sorry Keri I haven't responded before now. I was really contemplating on whether we could come. I just can't make it up there 2 weekends in a row. I know Zach would have loved it too. He loves that movie!

Have a great time and we will see you in 2 weeks.

Angelle said...

My neighbor Laurie and I were talking about that today because Ian's party is next weekend and she has gotten 5 responses out of 17 as of yesterday. What is up with people not responding at all? Especially if you give them an email option so they don't even have to call. It is truly annoying.

Kelly Albert said...

People are all about texting and e-mailing these days vs using the phone. Weird I know, but its just the way it is. I have gotten a lot better on RSVP'ing- esp since I know its hard to plan a party without it. It is very rude. Maybe you should go up to her school early one day this week and talk to some of the parents who are picking up the kids, to see if they are coming or not. I don't want my niece to be dissappointed!!!! Do you need me to come down there and kick some booty ;)

Maybe we need to do like they do for voting on tv and say if you are coming TEXT -YES OR NO- to your cell number ;) haha!

Chelsi said...

That's totally rude. You had both your email and phone number on your invitation, so there's no reason that parents couldn't take two seconds to respond. This kind of thing really irks me as well!! I hope you get more responses soon and Belle's school friends come to the party, since that is so important to her!! We will be there to help her celebrate, that's for sure!!

Nikki said...

Um.. I don't know how to break this to you, but I've heard back from six parents already for Halle's party. Just kidding. I haven't heard from any of the parents at school. Now that you posted this, I realize that I probably won't. Lucky for me, Halle is mostly excited about Annabelle being there. That's all she ever says. "Mommy, is Annabelle coming to my princess party?" The party favor thing is the biggest pain for me though. Because, like you I'm sure, I like to make nice party favor bags, not just generic ones. So having an exact number of girls and boys and their ages is important to me!

I hope you get some late RSVPs.. especially from the kids that Annabelle's really hoping for! Maybe leave a note in just those kids' folders for their parents telling them how much Annabelle talks about their child coming to her party and asking them to please RSVP. As a parent, that would definitely work for me if someone told me their child really wanted Halle at their party.

Scott and Dalana Zech said...

The same thing happens to parties that I have. I mail my invites. If I don't receive RSVP's a week before the party I call and make sure they received the invite and ask if they will be able to attend. I also buy more than enough, and it seems I go through all I buy. Although, I do think it's rude. I think everyone is so busy now days that if they don't RSVP as soon as they receive the invite, they put the invitation up and forget until the last minute. On the "day" of Scott's party I was still receiving RSVP's. Skylar is so upset she can not come. I explained that we will be at the airport picking up Uncle Blake. I know your going to be busy but, I wanted to see if Skylar could drop her gift off to Belle on Friday afternoon?

bobsclock said...

Boo, that sucks, Keri. Hopefully you will get lots of RSVP's that come in last minute - though that may not help that much! It is tough though - people get busy, sure, but that is no reason to be rude. Good luck. LOL - my word verification for this comment post was "noyed"... seems appropriate since you are "an"noyed about lack of RSVP! ; )