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loveandfitness
Dedicated May 2015

Is hand delivering invitations tacky?

loveandfitness, on January 12, 2015 at 7:13 PM

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I told my mom I was going to hand deliver invitations to people FH & I see relatively often but she says its tacky. I thought it would be more personal. It's not like I'm going to ding-dong ditch after I drop it on their doorstep. Is anyone else hand delivering to guests in your area?

I told my mom I was going to hand deliver invitations to people FH & I see relatively often but she says its tacky. I thought it would be more personal. It's not like I'm going to ding-dong ditch after I drop it on their doorstep. Is anyone else hand delivering to guests in your area?

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  • Susan
    Master March 2015
    Susan ·
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    I think he plans on hand delivering those to his coworkers, and I may to my family. At 70 cents for outer envelope plus the RSVP for what 48 cents (? not sure LOL) it adds up really fast. I spent $119 on stamps yesterday for our invites, OUCH! My family could care less if they are hand delivered.

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  • Kyra
    Expert May 2016
    Kyra ·
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    I think I will be mailing all of mines.

    But, I do not think hand delivering is tacky at all.

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  • Melissa
    Devoted May 2015
    Melissa ·
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    I deliver mail for the post office so I'm using that to justify hand delivering. Haha. Plus no one I'm hand delivering to would care either way. I'm provably only mailing the ones to people who live out of state. No one should turn their nose up at a hand delivered invite I feel. They should feel thankful they were invited at all especially if it's going to be a small wedding.

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  • loveandfitness
    Dedicated May 2015
    loveandfitness ·
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    O&S: If you don't give a fuck then why are you wasting you obviously precious time to respond?

    A good chunk of the guests invited aren't even people I know, my mom wants to "set the standard" since I'm the first to get married. It's bigger than FH & I wanted.

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  • loveandfitness
    Dedicated May 2015
    loveandfitness ·
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    @Mellisa: You'd know better than any of us lol. A lot of my STDs didn't make it to the people they were sent to.

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  • Emma
    Master October 2024
    Emma ·
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    As usual...


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  • A
    Just Said Yes October 2018
    Amanda ·
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    I'm hand delivering as many of mine as possible. I wish I could send them all out easily but I sent a sample one to myself and it was completely destroyed in the mail (it's a very formal, thick one)...it came all wrinkled and messed up. So as a result I am planning on sending them in 'glamour bubble mailers' which will be stupid expensive so I'm going to try to hand deliver when possible so the invites don't get killed by the post office and are a nice presentation for my guests. While I was concerned that it would be tacky, I would hope that those I see often enough (to hand deliver to) wouldn't care.

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  • J
    Beginner October 2024
    Jamie ·
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    I’m curious if it’s tacky to hand out wedding invites at my bridal shower 😂 I spent $200 on stamps already not trying to spend more than I have to
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  • A
    Dedicated April 2024
    Amber ·
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    We invited 25 people & hand delivered every single invitation. I didn't have to add a ton of detail to them nor did we have to create a wedding website to field questions. People asked what to wear, what's on the menu, what time do we come, & we were able to answer everything right away. NOTE!!!! Because we hand delivered & everyone said they'd be there, only 2 people have RSVP'd, LOL! So that may be something to think about. I intend to call everyone the week before just confirming they're coming. Also, many guests older than we are said it was so nice to 1) get a hand written invitation & 2) to have it hand delivered. They noted people don't visit often anymore so that was nice to be acknowledged for going above & beyond.

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