RSVP Card Template

The reply card is the piece of the wedding suite that comes back, and it has one job: to be filled in by someone at their kitchen table in under a minute. That means a line for their name, a box for yes and a box for no, a box for how many, and, if there is a choice of meal, three more boxes. This one is exactly that, set to match the wedding invitation in this drawer, four to a sheet with two cuts.

The card reads top to bottom. Your names at the top, the reply-by date under them in the accent color, then a thin line. Under it the M line, the old convention where the guest writes their name after the M. Then accepts with pleasure and declines with regret, each with a box, then a box for the number attending and the meal choice with three options you name. The meal choice is a switch, for the wedding with one menu.

Four cards print on one sheet, the same card four times, with one cut across and one down marked in the margins. A hundred reply cards is twenty-five sheets. Each card is a quarter sheet, 4.25 by 5.5 inches, which fits a standard A2 reply envelope, and the double hairline rule around it means it looks finished once it is cut.

Every line has a limit and the customizer holds you to it: thirty-six characters for the names, thirty for each of the two reply lines, eighteen for each meal. Six color themes, matched to the invitation and the menu, so the three read as one suite; light ink for the proof you print at home.

Print at 100%, not fit to page, on the same cardstock as the invitation: 80 lb to 100 lb cover. Cut along the dashed lines with a paper cutter. The free version is this design with the sample names, in the Gilt theme, on Letter, with a small credit line at the foot of the sheet. The paid version carries your names, your date, your lines and your meals, all six themes, and comes back in Letter and A4 from one purchase, with a link that works for a year.