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Facebook invite as word-of-mouth?

melbensomelbenso member
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FI and I will be getting married on Saturday, the 6th anniversary of our first date.  Our first date was at a local (free) music festival that will also be going on this weekend.  We will be going to the festival on Sunday afternoon, and wanted to invite friends and family to join us there.  It's a really cool, distinct part of our city that we would love out of town guests to get to see - it's also mentioned on our wedding website, so they could have some advanced notice.  But we'd also like to meet up with friends that won't be attending/weren't invited to the wedding.  This wouldn't be a wedding event, per se, and would not be hosted.  So we've been spreading the word that we will be at X place at X time, if anyone wants to join us.

FI wants to create a Facebook event, so we can let both our wedding guests and other friends know where and when to meet us on Sunday, if they feel like joining us.  Many of our friends will be attending the festival anyway.  And we'd like to see them, as we do every year at it.  Is a Facebook event going to guests and non-guests an acceptable means of word-of-mouth invite?
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  • Sugargirl1019Sugargirl1019 member
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    I don't think I would do a Facebook event. Text people, call people and ask if they are going to the festival? Yes? Great let's meet up there!

    And leave it at that. :) sounds fun!

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  • AddieCakeAddieCake member
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    Lately, I feel like FB is the only way I get invited from this one couple friends of ours anymore, and it's always via "come one, come all" status update or "event."  I was just complaining about it the other day, in fact, saying I wish once in awhile someone would contact me specifically to invite me to something. 


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  • sarahuflsarahufl member
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    AddieCake said:
    Lately, I feel like FB is the only way I get invited from this one couple friends of ours anymore, and it's always via "come one, come all" status update or "event."  I was just complaining about it the other day, in fact, saying I wish once in awhile someone would contact me specifically to invite me to something. 


    I agree. While FB is a fine way (IMO) to do this, it wouldn't hurt to make it more personal. Either by emails or phone calls.

    Sounds fun.
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  • gothic_fairy60gothic_fairy60 member
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    AddieCake said:
    Lately, I feel like FB is the only way I get invited from this one couple friends of ours anymore, and it's always via "come one, come all" status update or "event."  I was just complaining about it the other day, in fact, saying I wish once in awhile someone would contact me specifically to invite me to something. 


    I know what you mean. I have a FB but only get on it to contact people I do not have phone numbers for. I find that I get left out of many things because "well I sent it out on FB!".

    OP: consider how many people you know that do not have a FB or do not use it often. Older people are a good example. Calls or texts are probably safer.
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  • melbensomelbenso member
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    edited June 2014
    We are calling and texting (and mentioning it to people at the reception, if we are able to).  The FB invite would just be one more way of reaching out to people who use FB as their primary form of communication with us.

    And I guess that ship has sailed.  It appears FI sent out the invite while he was on his lunch break today without checking with me.  I think I may ask him to remove the references to our wedding the day before the "event" so that it's just a "Hey, we will be at festival at X time.  Come hang out with us if you want," invite.

    ETA punctuation, which is probably still not quite right
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  • Sugargirl1019Sugargirl1019 member
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    melbenso said:

    We are calling and texting (and mentioning it to people at the reception, if we are able to).  The FB invite would just be one more way of reaching out to people who use FB as their primary form of communication with us.

    And I guess that ship has sailed.  It appears FI sent out the invite while he was on his lunch break today without checking with me.  I think I may ask him to remove the references to our wedding the day before the "event" so that it's just a "Hey, we will be at festival at X time.  Come hang out with us if you want," invite.

    ETA punctuation, which is probably still not quite right

    Yes. Definitely remove all wedding aspects of the fb invite since its not associated with the wedding. Do what you typed there - perfect.

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  • melbensomelbenso member
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    Done and done. :)
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