Using Automator to reply to everyone on an iCal event

Hi all,
I regularly need to email everyone who is invited to a meeting in an iCal event. The manual way of doing this is:
Double-click the event with all the invitees in iCal
Click in the invitee field
Command + A (select all)
Command + C (copy)
Create a new email and click in the "To" field and do a command + V (paste)
Same flow but for the iCal event subject
How does one go about this in Automator or AppleScript?
Yours,
Jim

Hi gchiriacescu,
Good one! I bought the app ($0.99) but it doesn't seem to work. I'm using Lion.
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