Evite help

[marbel]

Any Evite experts?

 

I sent out an evite for a party this weekend.  As always, I haven't received responses from everyone, and there are a few invitations that apparently have never been viewed.  But none bounced back; they all appear to have been sent.

 

But, tonight I heard from someone on the guest list who told me that she had not received an invitation.  She was talking to her sister - who is also invited - and the sister showed the guest list with her name on it.  She could not respond via evite so emailed me to let me know she was coming.   I knew she had not viewed the invitation but she is a new mom and I figured she was just busy.  :-) 

 

Now of course I'm wondering if there are other who never received it.  I don't know how to tell.  Is there any way to tell?  Is there any way to send a reminder just to people who show up as not having viewed the invitation?    Or, would you get in touch with people another way and let them know that there might have been a problem?  I don't want to nag people about my party -  you know how if you ask some people a second time they get kind of defensive and annoyed at having been reminded?  I understand not everyone will come, and that's fine, but I would hate for someone to hear about it later and wonder why they had not been invited, when they in fact had been.

 

Hope that was clear.   Any thoughts?

 

 

[NorthwestMom]

Evite is glitchy and you need to follow up with the people who haven't viewed it. I send direct emails to those who haven't viewed it after a few days, asking if the Evite was received. My DD missed the ONLY birthday party she was invited to in her third grade year because we never received the Evite. It wasn't in my spam or anything, it just poofed. We found out the week after the party was held and the mother of the girl said she assumed our non-response meant no. I think I was more upset than DD.

 

Also, anyone who is annoyed or defensive about being an enquiry after not responding to party invitation is just rude, IMHO.

[marbel]

Thanks for that!  I have resent it to the people who never opened it.

 

I love receiving invitations this way and have used it some, but I never feel confident with it.  I guess no matter how a person sends an invitation - USPS, email, Evite - some can go astray.

 

Thanks for the help!