e-vites for invitations

Knottie1434201276

Hi,

For budget purposes, we've decided to send out our wedding invitations using Paperless Post. It worked great for our save-the-dates.

I'm just confused if I should be sending one e-vite to each person in a couple or just one to the couple?

If it were a paper invite, there would be one going to their household, but with email, it's tougher to know.

For example, my cousin and his wife. Do I one e-vite to his email and another to hers? Or just send one to my cousin and hope that he remembers to show his wife?

Any suggestions?

Jen4948

Knottie1434201276 said:

Hi,

For budget purposes, we've decided to send out our wedding invitations using Paperless Post. It worked great for our save-the-dates.

I'm just confused if I should be sending one e-vite to each person in a couple or just one to the couple?

If it were a paper invite, there would be one going to their household, but with email, it's tougher to know.

For example, my cousin and his wife. Do I one e-vite to his email and another to hers? Or just send one to my cousin and hope that he remembers to show his wife?

Any suggestions?

Since you ask: Send paper invitations.  Don't use e-vites as wedding invitations. 

There are a number of problems with them as wedding invitations:
1) They indicate to everyone else who is invited, which might not be information you want to make generally available.

2) They are informal.  One of the functions of wedding invitations is to set the "tone" of the wedding by letting people know how to dress and what to expect, through the use of cardstock, fonts, wording, graphics, and so on.  Unless your wedding is extremely informal in tone, it's not an appropriate means of communicating the tone of your wedding.

3) People tend not to take e-vites seriously, or as seriously as other forms of communication.  Some people don't open e-vites, or the e-vites get stuck in spam filters.  You don't want that to happen with your invitations.

4) Some people are not tech-savvy enough to understand how to respond properly to an e-vite.  I have an editing client like that, who can't even use gmail, let alone any kind of Web application.  And I know people who aren't even online.  Yes, even in this day and age, there are Stone Age people out there who do not use computers or the Internet.

This is one corner you should not attempt to cut by using e-vites.

JediElizabeth

Everything Jen said. My email is so full of crap, I only open about 1/5 of it. The rest gets trashed or sent to spam. You do not want that happening with wedding invitations.

CMGragain

I think that evites are not appropriate for something as important as a wedding.  I would expect a paper invitation.
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Maggie0829

JediElizabeth said:

Everything Jen said. My email is so full of crap, I only open about 1/5 of it. The rest gets trashed or sent to spam. You do not want that happening with wedding invitations.

All of this.  And with pretty much everything in our lives being digital or online it is really nice to get some physical mail in the mail box every now and then.

AddieCake

Another vote for no evites. 

Knottie1428553905

I wouldn't go with evites either there's a chance that people won't even know that it's a wedding invitation and think that it's just more junk mail. What about buying a few boxes with the 50% off coupons at Michael's and doing it yourself?

JoanE2012

Evites are good for summer BBQs.  Your wedding deserves more than an evite.