Wedding website on Invitation?

Re: Wedding website on Invitation?

• mikenberger member

  

  January 2015

  lilacck28 said:

  Hi all,
  
  I sent my save the dates to VIPs a little while ago (this included date, location, wedding website url), and now I'm looking into invitations. To save money, I'd like to only get a flat 5x7 invitation and the rsvp card... if I can avoid it I'd rather not have to purchase other enclosure cards. My venue is providing direction cards. I did not send the STD to everyone, and my wedding website (with information about location, hotels, etc) is not accessible through a search engine-- you have to know the exact url.
  
  
  So, where on the invitation should I put the wedding website? Is it super tacky to have it on the actual invitation? It seems like that would take away from the nice visual / formal sentiment of the card... but I don't know if it would be noticed anywhere else. Can it go on the rsvp card? But then guest send that back to me so... kind of illogical. There might be space on the direction card to squeeze it in if I hand write it (they're already printed.) Or do I have to have an enclosure card? The only other thing I can think of is printing it out on normal copy paper and slipping that into the package, or emailing the guests who did not receive a STD the url but... that seems odd too. I'm probably over thinking this.
  
  note: the website DOES have a section with links to my registries on it.
  
  SIDE QUESTION: I might get my invitations through Minted.com. They will address my invites for free if I purchase with them. Does anyone know if they pack the invitations/ seal them up too? (which means I wouldn't be able to slip other cards in there besides what I purchase through them. Seems illogical, but also a way for them to make you purchase more....) I was planning to email them and ask but... if anyone used them and already knows the answer, thought I'd give it a shot.
  

  Put your website info on an insert with your invites. Not on the invites themselves. I am putting hotel information on an insert and then putting "For more information go to:..."

  
  

  I'm unsure of what minted.com does, but I would guess that you get everything in a bundle and self assemble.

  
  

  
  

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• lilacck28 member

  

  January 2015 edited January 2015

  @mikenberger Yeah, that was my guess, even though all I can think is "damn. More paper!" I've never seen an invite with the website on it (but I haven't seen many actual wedding invitations either.)
  
  ETA: thanks for responding!
  
  Any opinions on printing that info yourself on card stock or copy paper? Ugly/ tacky? Not worth the effort? Actually pretty easy? (Cutting all that could be a definite pain --which is why I'm ordering the invites to begin with.. but my guess it is more budget friendly than buying another card. )
  

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• dcbride86 member

  

  January 2015

  mikenberger said:

  lilacck28 said:

  Hi all,
  
  I sent my save the dates to VIPs a little while ago (this included date, location, wedding website url), and now I'm looking into invitations. To save money, I'd like to only get a flat 5x7 invitation and the rsvp card... if I can avoid it I'd rather not have to purchase other enclosure cards. My venue is providing direction cards. I did not send the STD to everyone, and my wedding website (with information about location, hotels, etc) is not accessible through a search engine-- you have to know the exact url.
  
  
  So, where on the invitation should I put the wedding website? Is it super tacky to have it on the actual invitation? It seems like that would take away from the nice visual / formal sentiment of the card... but I don't know if it would be noticed anywhere else. Can it go on the rsvp card? But then guest send that back to me so... kind of illogical. There might be space on the direction card to squeeze it in if I hand write it (they're already printed.) Or do I have to have an enclosure card? The only other thing I can think of is printing it out on normal copy paper and slipping that into the package, or emailing the guests who did not receive a STD the url but... that seems odd too. I'm probably over thinking this.
  
  note: the website DOES have a section with links to my registries on it.
  
  SIDE QUESTION: I might get my invitations through Minted.com. They will address my invites for free if I purchase with them. Does anyone know if they pack the invitations/ seal them up too? (which means I wouldn't be able to slip other cards in there besides what I purchase through them. Seems illogical, but also a way for them to make you purchase more....) I was planning to email them and ask but... if anyone used them and already knows the answer, thought I'd give it a shot.
  

  Put your website info on an insert with your invites. Not on the invites themselves. I am putting hotel information on an insert and then putting "For more information go to:..."

  
  

  I'm unsure of what minted.com does, but I would guess that you get everything in a bundle and self assemble.

  This is what I did.  It says "for accomodations, directions, and other information, please visit: www.myweddingwebsite.com"
  

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• Cookie Pusher member

  

  January 2015

  We printed our website info on business card stock that I bought at Staples on the clearance rack.

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• lilacck28 member

  

  January 2015

  @cookie pusher: What size did you cut the inserts? Do you think a small square card (a little bigger than a business card) will be noticeable enough?
  

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• xx802xx member

  

  January 2015 edited January 2015

  I also wanted to save on paper and additional postage for the invitation. I have the front of the invitation with just the necessary invite information (names, date, time, place..etc.) so that it still looks nice, however my invites allowed printing on the back where I included the 2 hotel room blocks info and in small print bellow For more information please visit our wedding website (which also has this info). I will have a RSVP card and another small card for directions as well since it will require a few hours travel for my side of the family. I wanted to include as much necessary info as possible with my invite because my sister was married 6 months ago and much of the family complained that she was relying too heavily on the website for info. Several older family members (aunts, uncles and grandparents who are not as tech savy) thought it was inconvenient to constantly go to the website or have to navigate to the website. I don't know if having that info on the back is considered fine...but I know it will be appreciated from my families point of view.  

  

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• Cookie Pusher member

  

  January 2015

  lilacck28 said:

  @cookie pusher: What size did you cut the inserts? Do you think a small square card (a little bigger than a business card) will be noticeable enough?
  

  Mine were these (CLICKY). I use them a lot since I print my own cards for freelance work. Really, you could do whatever size you wanted. Like @xx802xx we could print on the back of our invitations as well, but we figured most people either wouldn't notice or would forget because the back of the invitation is what would be against the fridge. Having the separate card allowed our guests to put it in their wallet or keep it by the computer.

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• lilacck28 member

  

  January 2015

  Thank you!
  

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