Invitations: Online Invitations or Paper Invitations?

We are going paperless the whole way. We emailed our Save The Dates and will do the same with our invites. We have created a nice graphic for in the email and the email will direct people to our wedding wire website where they can RSVP.

It just didn't make sense to us to spend all that money on paper that most people will then throw out. We had the luxury as well as knowing most if not all of our guests are tech savvy enough to at the very least respond to an email.

We are sending out the email invites in about two weeks but so far all our testers (bridal party) haven't had any issues with the website.

We’re going to do paper invitations due to the number of guests who are older/less tech-savvy.

We did our save the dates through paperlesspost.com and will be doing our invites the same way. What I like about them is that people can RSVP through the invitation. The invitation also pops out of an envelope which I think is super cute. And, you can see who opened it and who hasn't (or if the e-mail bounced back).

There are free designs, but it does cost to send them out. I think I spent about $20 in order to send them to 60 or so e-mail addresses.

All of our guests are familiar (or familiar enough) with e-mail, otherwise we would've looked at paper options.

I did a one page paper invite with a website on the bottom. I had a few older guests who I knew wouldn't be able to RSVP online, so I gave them a call personally before I sent the invites to let them know about the website and that they can let me know by phone. We had a few guests unsure as well, but so far they've been calling someone to either help or called someone in the wedding party they knew to RSVP.

My friend did Save the Dates through email and is planning to send formal invites with a website RSVP as well.

We stuck with paper invites as the majority of our guests that are invited are older and don't often use the computer.

We are doing paper invitations! I have some older family and I am worried they may not know how to rsvp through an online service

View quoted message Allison we did the exact same thing. Ordered invitations from vista print and are doing the rsvp on the WeddingWire website.

Turns out you did a good thing. We first asked our guests whether they would like to send rsvp and the tremendous majority (almost every single one ) said they would rather call/text that having to send the RSVP card back. So we went with this and everyone’s happy

Http://www.stephita.com/ Try Stephita - they are SUPER afforable, in comparison to the crazy etsy prices and even via VistaPrint if you have a small party, then ordering envelopes has to be separate, and etc etc. Not to mention they print custom designs - so you don't have to go with theirs, yet the price is a FRACTION of the cost.

This is who I am going with. I don't want the invite to be another toss in the trash ugly paper, but instead something worth keeping if anything. A digital file just doesn't have the same effect as opening a high quality, well designed invite that looks like you put effort into.

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Woo! Love it!!

It all depends on your guest, if their modern and computer people do it. If they older generation it may better to do traditional invites

We ordered paper invites on Vistaprint this week, but we are doing RSVPs on our website through WeddingWire. My mom is a little concerned that it isn't traditional and the older generations won't understand, but it's 2018 and they can call me too. Weddings are expensive so if I can save somewhere, I totally am!

I originally was going to mail out invitations, but ask for RSVPs through a website. Both my mom and my FH said no way, just wasn't traditional and they thought it was 'missing out on the experience'. sooo, going with paper!

I have to admit, paper invites look beautiful.

We have a close friend who does invitations for a living, so she'll be doing ours. Otherwise I would have just gone through vistaprint. i did my Save the Dates through them and they turned out gorgeous.

View quoted message I’ve never heard of the site your talking about. Maybe when you find it you can let us know. Maybe worthwhile to check it out

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Yes, I will most likely have to mail out a handful of invites to those who are not familiar with the technology world. It should be mostly a younger crowed though so I am not too worried. I will check out paperlesspost.com. Thanks for your thoughts, helps a lot!!

View quoted message Thanks! Yeah, I thought there would be an off chance of it being frowned upon. Maybe a few people would get the idea that its "lazy" or whatever, but if I did it through email I would want them to be through a really good website. If not, I will have to probably do paper invites.

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Awesome! Yeah, we might have to just mail out a few invitations in order to accommodate the older generation. Thanks for the input! I'll have to check out VistaPrint.

We did our save the dates on paperlesspost.com and were planning to do our invites there also, but given that most of our invitees are from the older generation we sent out paper ones from Vistaprint, we still have them RSVP from our wedding site but even then they are having some complications clickling a button. So keep in mind your guest list and choose accordingly, Happy Planning

I was reading up on this very etiquette and apparently it’s frowned upon to email the invitations. Erin has a point about the older generation. We were thinking we’d make our own and either hand them out to those that live close by and mail the ones that live farther. I’m sure whatever you choose will be just fine. Best of luck.

E-vites are awesome as they are cheaper and environmentally friendly. Keep in mind though that some of the older generation will not have e-mail or a computer so you may have to send a few paper ones anyway. We did e-mail save the dates and then sent out a 1 page invite and asked people to RSVP on our site. We got our invitations through VistaPrint during a sale and it was well worth it.