{"id":262,"date":"2017-05-27T14:26:15","date_gmt":"2017-05-27T19:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.confrerie.org\/csewp\/?page_id=262"},"modified":"2023-06-01T12:55:29","modified_gmt":"2023-06-01T17:55:29","slug":"reservation-guidelines","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.confrerie.org\/csewp\/members-area\/reservation-guidelines\/","title":{"rendered":"Reservation Guidelines"},"content":{"rendered":"<ol>\n<li><strong><u>RESERVATIONS<\/u><\/strong> &#8211; Reservations are to be made in the manner requested in the event invitation (i.e. RSVP and check by US Postal service, or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.confrerie.org\/csewp\/members-area\/dinners\/\">online via credit card payment<\/a>).\u00a0 Please allow, and assume that it may take up to 5 business days in transit for mail RSVP&#8217;s to reach the Confrerie Secretary.<br \/>\n<u>Guest Invitations<\/u> \u2013 If you wish to have a paper invitation sent to a guest, notify the secretary no later than 6 weeks prior to the event.\u00a0 <em>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.confrerie.org\/csewp\/calendar\/\">Event dates<\/a> are posted on this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.confrerie.org\/csewp\/calendar\/\">website<\/a> and in the member directory.)<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong><u>DECLINE TO ATTEND <\/u><\/strong>&#8211; If you know you are not attending, please either return the RSVP card via US Post office, or email the <a href=\"mailto:confrerie.st.etienne@gmail.com\">Confrerie Secretary<\/a> advising of your inability to attend.<\/li>\n<li><strong><u>CONFIRMATION EMAIL<\/u><\/strong> &#8211; You will receive an email confirming your reservation and receipt of your and payment within 3 days of receipt by the Confrerie Secretary.<br \/>\n<u>Missing Confirmation<\/u> &#8211; If you have paid and sent in your reservation card, and have <em><u>not<\/u><\/em> received a reservation confirmation email by the reservation deadline, please call the Confrerie Secretary on or before the RSVP deadline to advise of your intent to attend. \u00a0They must have an accurate attendee count by the reservation deadline.<\/li>\n<li><strong><u>LAST MINUTE RESERVATIONS<\/u><\/strong> &#8211; If you wish to attend, and cannot ensure your reservation and payment will arrive by the due date specified in the invitation, you <em><u>must<\/u><\/em> <strong><u>call or email the <a href=\"mailto:confrerie.st.etienne@gmail.com\">Confrerie Secretary<\/a><\/u><\/strong> advising of your intent to attend, and your plan to remit payment. <em><br \/>\n<\/em><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><u>After the Deadline<\/u><\/span> \u2013 <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Reservations cannot be accepted after the deadline stated on the invitation, but you may be placed on a \u201cstandby\u201d list in the event another guest has to cancel at the last minute.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong><u>2nd PARTY RESERVATIONS<\/u><\/strong> &#8211; Please do not &#8220;relay&#8221; your reservation through other Members or Grand Council personnel.\u00a0 The secretaries are the focal points and maintain the actual list of attendees on behalf of the dinner host, based on RSVP\u2019s received per above.\u00a0 They are responsible for providing the list of attendees (members and their guests) to the dinner host for coordination with the dinner venue. This generally occurs 1 week prior to the event as a great deal of final preparation takes place (based on the RSVP&#8217;s) \u00a0in the week preceding these formal events.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>CANCELLATIONS<\/strong> <\/span>\u2013 Cancellations <em>(like<\/em> <em>reservations)<\/em> are to be made directly to the secretaries, and are accepted up to the RSVP deadline with full refund.\u00a0 After the deadline, refunds <em>cannot <\/em>be guaranteed.\u00a0 Arrangements between the dinner host and the venue determine the \u201cfinal headcount\u201d dates which may vary from event to event.\u00a0 If you find you must cancel after the deadline and the secretaries advise there are no \u201cstandby\u201d reservations, please consider transferring your tickets to another member or guest.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>We appreciate your assistance in making your reservations and payments within the above guidelines. \u2013\u00a0<b>Confr\u00e9rie Saint Etienne Grand Council<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RESERVATIONS &#8211; Reservations are to be made in the manner requested in the event invitation (i.e. RSVP and check by US Postal service, or online via credit card payment).\u00a0 Please allow, and assume that it may take up to 5 business days in transit for mail RSVP&#8217;s to reach the Confrerie Secretary. Guest Invitations \u2013 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.confrerie.org\/csewp\/members-area\/reservation-guidelines\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Reservation Guidelines<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":67,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-262","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.confrerie.org\/csewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.confrerie.org\/csewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.confrerie.org\/csewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.confrerie.org\/csewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.confrerie.org\/csewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.confrerie.org\/csewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":451,"href":"http:\/\/www.confrerie.org\/csewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/262\/revisions\/451"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.confrerie.org\/csewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/67"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.confrerie.org\/csewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}