Making an Event on FB for our wedding??? HELP

I do think it's tacky to make a Facebook event. Sending an Evite would serve the same general purpose and be a little better, IMO. It will basically be a Save the Date, and you can give people information or your wedding website (with information) to make plans.

But remember that even if months before people say they'll be there, you won't know for sure until closer to your date.

I recently got an event request as a std on fb and nearly died. I couldn't believe they would make it a fb event, not a fan.

I am also not a fan of facebook wedding invites/event requests. I feel it is very tacky.

I also vote tacky.

Plan for 100%(and be prepared for 100%), but know that average is about 80%. All vendors should know this.

Reenski I have started a wedding website, should I just give out that information...

& Im sorry Im super new here on WW what does IMO & STD mean?? lol sorry!!

Thanks again ladies

IMO - in my opinion

STD - save the date

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@Jennifer, I'm right with you lol I know STD is Save the Date, but I don't know IMO...

I agree with the other ladies, don't make a FB page...I had the same issue as you because I have a huge family. We invited 275 guests, but we're thinking out of those, we'll be around 240 total. I just went through the list and started picking those I wouldn't think would make it and others that had already informed me they wouldn't be able to. It may not be the best way, but that's the only way I could at the time lol

Good luck!

I'm not going to weigh in on whether or not it is tacky.

I just see it as very problematic to post something like a wedding on a very large and public network, not knowing who can access the info. No matter how high you set the permissions, I am sure someone's BFF's sister will see the event and think it was intended for her and want to know when she can expect her mailed invitation.

Please don't do it. You never know who will be invited from others. And then they'll show up. And you'll be stuck with more people than you anticipated.

Yep, if you have a wedding website, you can either make a cute email to send it out (I did this, embedded a picture into an email and sent it out, along with the wedding website for info.)

But if you want to get rough numbers, I think an Evite might be a better way to go, use that as your save the date (STD) but be sure to let people know that it is NOT the formal RSVP.

@ Michele very good point!!

@ Lily I will do that for now,

Deff not going to do the FB post!

@ Michele very good point!!

@ Lily I will do that for now,

Deff not going to do the FB post!

I made a Facebook secret group cause all my family and friends follow FB and no one even really knows what a wedding website is so I created a secret group and only the people I add can see the group and what's in it I have 90% of my guest traveling out of town including myself and FH so some may think it's "tacky" but I think it's trying to make sure my guest get the information they need.

I’m going to be the devil’s advocate here…

I’ve probably received 5 Facebook event invites for weddings in the past year. People sent them out not only to get an estimated guest count but to request addresses, notify people of their wedding website, and to post notifications about the planning process.

I don’t think it’s tacky, but keep in mind, I’m a Facebook fanatic. And you can set the event invite to “private” or “secret” which excludes the public, and guest can’t invite people.

I plan to send out an event closer to my wedding date to request addresses and to inform guests of our wedding website which lists information about our wedding day, and then I’ll send out a formal invitation prior to the wedding.

I’m also having a small wedding with mostly just family. I think this type of things depends upon your circle of friends and family.

Definitely go more along the wedding website route unless you are super careful about things like privacy settings and controlling who is invited. You can send people emails or messages telling them the URL to the site which with have spots for rsvp and guest books which will be easier for you to control privacy settings and making sure people know about it anyway if you go website route.

I have mine on facebook but its only open to those I actually invited so they would have updated info as the time went on.. this avoided the people say "i hope you send me an invite"

I think this is only tacky and problematic if you make it so.

1.) Do not invite people via FB. Make the event after invitations have already been sent.

2.) Make it a private event viewable only to people who are invited.

If you do that, it's okay. I tend to make FB events for friends who basically use it as their calendar. It's much easier to make an event than have them all what date/time it is every few days. Lol

Very interesting topic. I am fairly certain that FB Groups are a great marketing tool. However, I can't find anywhere the percentages about the average quantity of members of a group, as well as the number of participating members in a group. Someone here has any insights about that?

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I dunno, I personally think the Facebook invites are a cute idea if everyone you want to invite is on Facebook. I'm 22 years old and female and I plan on using Facebook to invite my friends and family to my wedding because everyone I'd want to invite is on Facebook, anyway.
Then after I get everyone who says they want to come actually saying they'll come, I'll likely work on sending out physical invitations to those specific people. If I happened to have a friend I wanted to invite that wasn't on Facebook, I'd just call or text them the invite since Facebook says you can invite people via email even if they don't have Facebook. People use Facebook to invite people to things all the time, and I personally see nothing wrong with doing the same with a wedding.

I can see why it might seem stupid or something or "tasteless" but sometimes that's honestly the easiest way to make sure everyone you wanna invite gets the invite [Like I said, though, if everyone you'd invite is actually on Facebook]

I suppose it really depends family from family, but my Sister's friend sent invites on Facebook to her wedding. I don't see an issue with it at all, really.

I'm honestly surprised to see so many people finding it tacky, haha, I genuinely thought there'd be more people on board with the idea of inviting people on Facebook since it's just so common. I dunno, though, I like both ways and see nothing wrong with Facebook or Snail Mail or Text/Email.

I'd need to use Facebook at first so I can get everyone I want to invite's address to send them a real invitation anyway.

FB is not the appropriate way to send wedding invitations