Sending wedding invitations via email?

I don't really know how else you would do it besides using paperlesspost or greenenvelope... What about making a wedding invitation video? Then you can put it on YouTube and email people the link.

I think that is a neat idea using that site. Coming from someone who has two email account (one had over 3,000 emails), I rarely check it. If you decide to do this, I would advise to call everyone to make sure they received it and saw it. It may be a lot of work.

* To save on postage you could hand deliver the invites *

I haven't heard of greenenvelope, I'll check that out. Doing a Youtube video is an interesting idea. Thanks MissMadeline!

Here are a couple I found on YouTube.

http://youtu.be/76i8lopFZxI

http://youtu.be/ht-OzjoUEek

We made a save the date video that we linked to everyone.

email everyone invited a link to your website where they RSVP (tell them explicitly to RSVP)

Thanks Tiffany! I can't hand deliver the invites because mostly everyone is coming in from out of town. :-/

Thanks AlmostMrs.King and MissMadeline I wasn't able to open the links but I'll search for some!

As a MOH I used paperless post for bachelorette invites and it is hard to get everyone to RSVP. You can tell if they have opened the email or not but a few of the girls (3/24) have left me frustrated.

Also, friends of mine received online invites to an engagement party and they talked soooo much crap about how they thought it was inappropriate. Not everyone will be receptive, especially if it is for an actual wedding.

Thank for the advice K!

Mailed invitations don't *have* to be super expensive. We did a single 4x6 card for our invite - no inner envelopes, enclosure cards (except RSVPs). Including postage (for invite and RSVPs) I think we paid about $200-$250 on Zazzle.com and the USPS. Envelopes are included with your invites/RSVP cards, and since we used a standard size no extra postage was necessary. I saw no point in ribbon and lace and glitter for mailing what is, essentially, trash. But, I also felt email wasn't quite formal enough.

I did use evites for the rehearsal, and we used punchbowl.com. I think email can be okay for anything by the wedding invitation itself, as that is the most important part of the whole thing, and also I'd worry about older guests or less tech-savvy guests figuring it out what to do and being upset/frustrated.

Also - your invitations, no matter what, should match the formality of your event. If you're having a formal wedding, e-vites won't fly. If you're having a backyard BBQ with wings and beer, they're probably fine.

Thanks Stephanie! I'll check out Zazzle.com. We decided we were going to mail out invites to our older guest and since we have a lot of younger friends attending the wedding we would send out a formal email. Our wedding is informal but not backyard in formal. Ugh this is so hard... Thanks. How many invites did you send out for what you paid?

I agree Stephanie.

I wouldn't do it just by age. If you are having a formal evening, people will expect a formal invite.

Invitations are a good way to set the tone for your wedding. Like others have said unless it is a super casual event, I think everyone will expect a paper invitation. We made our invitations for about $70 and spent $30 on postage. I have seen other WW users post on here about even cheaper options you can order online.

My cousin did that...it went horribly wrong. They got email addresses wrong, or used old ones. It was a confusing nightmare. If you are having a formal wedding I suggest formal invites for sure. You can do something super simple for cheap. Either order a digital and pay printing costs yourself, or use a site like vistaprint. We got 200 save the dats for less than $40. They could have easily passed for invites.

I sent my save the dates as an email link to our wedding website. SO MANY people still are asking about wedding details and said they never received the email (I think they just ignored it, more likely). I used VistaPrint for our invites. Had an awesome coupon/living social deal so I got 80 invites/80 response cards, envelopes, and return address labels for $76. Even better, I'm able to use the forever stamp for postage, so I ordered it online for $36 before the rate increases on 1/26. You can get away with inexpensive invitations. Also could print your own.

View Quoted Comment Hello, this is exactly what I am doing. Also considering the fact that it is both of ours 2nd wedding. We are trying to really save money keeping it pretty simple. However, we will be sending out about 25 formal paper invites to our older guest and formal emails to our younger more tech savvy ones. What I did was I took a picture of the actual paper invitation uploaded it to the website and included there any additional I information needed in the spaces provided on the website. Such as the dinner selections and adult reception only. I am using a website called RSVPify. It's pretty cool first 100 invites are free and it let's you even do a seating chart. You can modify pretty much anything. Hope this helps a little bit. Wish you the best of luck.

I used evite I paid $25 and sent invites through their site with link for my wedding website.

UPDATE! It’s been 5 years since we were married and I hand made/ formal invitations that looked as if they were professionally done for our older guest and we sent an email to our younger crew and we had some no responses but not that many and like any invitations you still need to call to encourage people to RSVP. And honestly, the friends that received the email invitation weren’t offended and if they were who cares, wedding are expensive and there isn’t a need to spend hundreds of dollars on something people are just going to throw away. But that’s my opinion 😀