Paperless Invites

I like the idea of paperless. I think we will send paperless Save the Dates, and physical invites. I’ve used paperless post for other events and would definitely recommend. They make it easy to track and send reminders.

We're doing paper invites with digital RSVPs. Our plan is to put an email address or website on the invitations and ask people to rspv that way.


I like the idea of emailed invites and save the dates, but I would still do physical thank you cards. People don't cherish emails the way they do a hand written note thanking them for that lovely gravy boat or blender they got you.
Depending on the email server you use you may be able to request a read receipt, this way you can tell if a guest hasn't opened the email or if someone opened it but still hasn't RSVPd. I would also set up a separate email just for wedding stuff so your personal box doesn't get clogged.

We were planning on going complerely paperless at the start. But when I sent out save the dates, the older guests didn't receive them. Or they did but they just don't check emails the same as the younger crowd. So we mailed the save the dates to those specific few. But for the actual invites we decided to just go the paper route to avoid confusion. I think our parents and grandparents also want physical copies to keep. It's more time consuming, but that's our reasoning and just something to think about that wasn't forseen in the beginning for us.

We did our save the dates and invitations through paperlesspost.com. They weren’t completely free to send but very cheap. We had people rsvp through our website. We did so thank you’s via regular mail though. I think you should send everything via email. It seems a little more personable to send an invitation than to send a link to a website where there’s an invitation. Plus, on the email, you can address who is invited whereas with it in a website, people may invite a plus one or other family members.