Paperless Save The Dates and Invitations?

View Quoted Comment I will say the paper invites people would send back less ahah and the electronic invite people are more inclined because you can keep sending reminders to respond! But either way you still get people who reply late

For a casual wedding, E-vites and online RSVPs are fine and can work very well. For a black tie wedding, you'll need paper invites and paper RSVPs, or else guests may get confused about the formality of your wedding.

I like paper invitations for any formal event. A wedding event with an electronic invitation is like a birthday party with a fill in the names card. Fine for a wedding on the beach, no gowns, no suits, just casual clothes and picnic fare. Not a serious event. Given a conflict, I would go to the less casual event. They do not need to be ridiculously expensive suites with ribbons and bows and cor printing. No fancy stamps. They can be a nice quality blank card, and nicely hand written. A couple of people need to practice handwriting neatly, regularly. You don't need full Calligraphy. And I have every written or printed wedding invitation for every one I have been in or attended. Age 40. Answering by e mail or phone is fine. Answering to a mass electronic list, no.

We did our save the dates electronically (via messages and email). We're having a short engagement (3 1/2 months) and I wanted people to know as soon as the date was set, so they could plan (especially out-of-town guests). But I wasn't ready to sent out invitations (took us a while to decide plus we needed to collect addresses etc).


We sent out save-the-dates 3 months before the wedding and invitations 7-8 weeks before the wedding. I felt it would be silly to sent paper save-the-dates and paper invitations because they were so close to each other.
We did only online RSVP to save money. But the 100 Dollar plus stamps we spent on invitations were worth it to us because it's a special once-in-a-lifetime event. And our invitations came out beautiful.

Another pro of digital Save the date and invite: Guest can't add name.
It's a common thing for gueet to do this and you'll always have some of them that assume they can bring one (or more guest) without your consent.
I'm in the minority about this: I think that digital STD-invites-RSVO are appropriate for every wedding, even the most formal ones. No law state that you have to send papers STD-invites-RSVP for a formal,fancy,luxurious wedding 😃

What My partner and I are planning to do is online STD,invitations and RSVP forneveryoneso no paper at all. But we will call those who can't use the internet, 2-3 days before the deadline , because we DON'T want anyone to add name and those who get a +1 can add a name , those who won't get it, can't add anyone.