A copied RSVP...

Posted Thursday, May 03, 2007 8:14 AM

My mom says the most exciting part of her day is running to the mailbox to see if we’ve gotten any RSVP’s. Being 3,000 miles apart, this has become our nightly thing—she calls me up all excited to announce that we’ve gotten X more responses. Yesterday, I happened to be on one of our nightly phone calls with her. She’s reading off yeses, no’s, and telling me how each person spells their legal name (for the base guest list). Then she pauses.

“Oh my Gawd!” I hear her say.

“What? What?” I’m thinking Jason’s parents have said no, along with a rude little comment.

“My sister Pam sent a photo copy of your RSVP and kept the original!!”

Now I’m laughing. My mom had called my aunt sometime last week asking where her RSVP was (my mom’s been hustling everyone for them). My aunt told her she didn’t want to send it in. It was so cute she wanted to keep it! She had told my mom she was going to make a copy and then she’d RSVP. We thought she was keeping the copy!! Not sending it! I got a kick out of that for the rest of the night. Definitely made me feel better about the whole stamp thing.