Hand deliver invites?

mrospos

Is it rude to hand deliver invites to people like family and co-workers? I had thought hand delivering them would be a nice gesture, but someone suggested to me that people might think I was trying to get out of paying the postage to mail them. Any advice is appreciated!

MEM2012

Originally wedding invitations were hand delivered or given face to face.  That was a sign of respect and wanting the people to actually come to your wedding.   In different cultures they were delivered by different people - the host, the servants, the couple ... it depends on the culture.   This is the formal way. 

Over time, with formalized post offices this became the cheaper and faster way to invite people.  And somehow cheap and fast became the rule. 

We went back to tradition for our wedding.  All the way back!   

We hand delivered the invitations at our engagement party to each guest.  It was NOT cheaper than mailing them, as each invitation was given in a gift bag with a favour for each guest.  We personally handed the bag to each guest and invited them to our wedding. 

We are hand delivering the invites to all remaiing guests that did not make it to the engagement party. 

The only ones we are mailing that those that are out of town and we are following up with a personal phone call to them. 

If someone did that for me - I would know that they really wanted me to be there.

Our guests were very happy with our delivery and very touched that we would personally ask them to come.   None of them had ever been personally invited to a wedding before and they really liked it.