A Florida couple checked their mailbox to see if they had received RSVPs for their wedding, and found a handwritten letter all the way from Kuala Lumpur.
Alexia and her partner, Chris, who only shared their first names, are preparing to marry in October, and sent out wedding invitations to friends and family earlier this year, with a tearaway RSVP card and pre-stamped envelopes.
They did this, Alexia told Newsweek, “to make this as simple as possible for our guests to mail them back to us.”
But things didn’t quite go to plan, as one set of friends who live close by mailed the RSVP back in April—and it arrived in June, having made a long detour all the way to Malaysia and back.
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“I started looking through them and noticed a bunch of Malaysia stamps on one of the envelopes,” Alexia said.
She explained that the couple had sent extra invites to celebrities and brands, not expecting anyone to actually attend, “but it’s kinda fun to see who we get back,” and initially, Chris had “wondered what celebrity I sent an invitation to in Malaysia.”
But, along with the RSVP was a handwritten note, dated May 18 2025.
The note-writer, whose name was blurred out by Alexia, explained they live in Kuala Lumpur, and “this card addressed to you was missent to my address by USPS.”
They went on to share their hope that “you receive this in good time.”
“My husband and I just thought it was so funny that our little card went on an adventure,” Alexia told Newsweek.
“We told our friends, who also found the whole situation humorous and a little confusing. But we also thought it was incredibly kind of this stranger in Malaysia to take the time to write and send it back to us.”
Alexia shared the story to Reddit’s r/mildlyinteresting on June 13 via her account u/Asterseer, where it racked up more than 51,000 upvotes.
Along with the RSVP itself (which her friends marked as attending), and the handwritten note, she shared a photo of the envelope, which had multiple international stamps and bright red letters declaring it had come via air mail.
“Wedding RSVP mailed by friends that live 30 mins away somehow was sent to Malaysia and then sent back to us by stranger,” she titled the post.
Reddit users loved the unusual story, one commenter writing: “I think the only rational response in this situation is to start a lifelong friendship with your new pen pal from Kuala Lumpur.”
“And invite them to the wedding. They did RSVP,” another pointed out, while one shared a similar story: “I mailed a card to a friend a couple of towns over. It ended up taking 6 months to reach her, and when she got it, it had Chinese postmarks on it.”
And one user pleaded: “By the law of reciprocity, you must now send a card back.”
Generally, couples send wedding invitations six to eight weeks before the wedding, with an RSVP date at least two weeks before the wedding date, according to wedding experts site The Knot. Couples should be sure to include a return address on the invitation, and ensure to address them clearly so guests know whether they have the option of a plus-one.
As for how their letter ended up on the other side of the world, Alexia and Chris have some theories—perhaps the post office machines read FL as KL, sending it to Kuala Lumpur, or the letter got accidentally attached to a package or note being sent to the note-writer’s address.
“I think it had to have gotten stuck to something, because there was no international page on our cards,” she said.
Alexia told Newsweek: “I plan to write something back to this person thanking them. They could have just ignored it and thrown it out.
“I just want them to know their actions are appreciated! I have their name and address to write back, I just need to buy some international stamps.”
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