Congratulations! You’ve been invited to a wedding. Here’s how to respond to the invitation with grace. Traditionally, wedding invitations are accompanied by a response card (the most formal ...

The response options for direct mail today can include: Toll-free phone number. SMS texting. Quick-response code (QRC). URL for a landing page. Business reply card (BRC).

But here I sit on April 21, and we are missing 31 response cards (i.e. about 60 people). I’ve been told that this happens to everyone planning a wedding, so I guess it’s my turn.

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I just received an invitation to a formal wedding. There was no response card; we are expected to write our own note. To me this is very cheap, and some people just won’t respond.

Dear Abby: What has become of social skills in this country? I have been planning my daughter’s wedding for eight months, and I mailed invitations with self-addressed, stamped response cards six ...

First it was the addition of "R.s.v.p." or "The favor of a reply is requested" to invitations that traditionally assumed the guests would not need to be prompted to do the obvious.