Paperless Wedding Invitations

No, no, no. Send a real invitation. People are not going to take an e-vite seriously.

That could be kind of nice if all the people on your list have email they check regularly! Plus it would save in costs and help the environment! My parents invited people to their wedding long ago by word of mouth. Even though most people would say no, I think it's fine if you want to do that! Plus the nice thing with e-vite is it sends the person reminders that they need to RSVP if they haven't already!

I love your commitment to the environment but this would decrease the formality of the invitation process. Just consider this when making your decision. People may not respond like a mailed wedding invitation

You also risk the email going into the spam folder or being dismissed as junk mail.

Evites are extremely informal. Send real invitations. Stamps are like 50 cents a piece. It's not that bad.

I'm doing paper invites, but the RSVP will be paperless (i.e. call or text or email B & G at ___). I find that many millennials lack stamps lying around and unintentionally take forever to send back a RSVP. I suppose I could just stamp it for them, but I didn't want to get a whole invitation suite.

Why is it acceptable for only casual weddings? I think that's silly. It's a piece of paper that eventually is thrown in the trash... I've never kept invites. Times are changing!

I did paper invites and I did e-vites for our rehearsal and people were sending me texts left and right to tell me how beautiful our invite was (especially for a rehearsal), and how easy it was to rsvp. If I could go back, I'd totally use the e-vite method. I also sent out 75 invites out via Paperless for a school event and not one went into junk mail with recipients having gmail, yahoo, Comcast, etc.

It also keeps all information super organized for you and sends reminders directly to guests! AND you can write on a wall with updates and it sends the updates to guests too.

I did our rehearsal invites through Paperless Post and I swear I would go back and do it with invites.

You still have the risk of people not receiving invites. Sometimes emails just get lost.

Or, what if someone gives you the wrong email address and you send it to a stranger? (This is a real thing that happens. I get a ton of emails for some person who shares me name and lives in Vegas. I now know her address, her cell phone number, what kind of car she drives, all about her kids activities...)

I had a friend do it for hers and it worked for her, buuut I wouldn't personally do it. A physical invitation is nicer to get and is simply classier.

Invitations really set the tone for your wedding and help convey the formality of the event, so you want to make sure you're setting the right tone!

I also just think you're going to run a super high chance of people deleting the email (not realizing it was a wedding invitation), or having the email be filtered out into "promotions" or "spam/junk" folders. We used Paperless Post to do evites for our rehearsal dinner and had a decent amount of our guests never open or view the invite - and had to follow up with a much higher percentage of our guests for RSVPs and meal choices!

There are a lot of green wedding invitation companies, check out Botanical Paperworks! You can also use online RSVPs and a wedding website to consolidate all your information and put most of it online (cutting down on additional inserts and mailing weight)!

I think of anything paperless as casual.

Also, with wedding invitations, I put them on my fridge so that I remember. If it's in the email, I might forget.

I might forget about your wedding if I receive an evite two months in advance. I need a hard copy invite to reference back ....

How many posts have we seen from people who have sent invites via mail and guests didn't receive them?

No. Now a days it's a real treat to get actual physical mail. People will certainly appreciate it more to have a tangible item. You don't have to spend a lot on them. I'd rather have a physical invite from vistaprint/zazzle than an e-vite.

Send a real invite.

This was our rehearsal invite. Even this looks very formal to me and we are just rehearsing!

I would be the person who wouldn't get it. I don't check my email often enough. I would stick to a classic paper invite and maybe do rsvps online.

I am all about being environmentally friendly, but it depends on so many factors: How casual is your wedding, does grandma (and older guests) have an e-mail and knows what an e-vite is, and I am also guessing you risk of them going into spam. The design is beautiful though.

I think it is tacky

Not to beat a dead horse here, but you should send out physical invitations. You could add a link for RSVP's online instead of the inserts if you're worried about environmental conservation, but that's as far as I would take it. This isn't a birthday party or back yard barbecue, so it should be formal. Not to mention that older guests (grandparents, possibly great grandparents) are not tech savvy and may not have or regularly check emails.

I would do traditional paper invitations... you have to remember so elderly ppl are not to good with computers.