Wedding e-invitations?

Paperless Post has really pretty online invitation designs, some free. And I believe you can bypass their built in RSVP tool and link to your wedding wire RSVP.

People might not read their email and miss your invitation. I would advise against an e-vite for an invite. Save the dates maybe, but not the invitation. You can get good deals on VistaPrint this weekend. They're having 60% off.

Honestly I think it looks cheap and a bit tacky to send e-invites. Not to mention people still will forget to RSVP. Like PP's have said it's one thing to send STD's through email but invitations are another. Please consider taking advantage of the sales going on this weekend with vistaprint and other printing companies.

I wouldn't do it frankly. Not everyone reads their email, not everyone is comfortable with it, and I can tell you that your RSVP's will suffer.

Not a fan, but if that's the route you're taking, I second Paperless Post.

I only did this for family and friends that lived overseas in locations that had terrible international postal mail - so I had an English and Spanish version of the evite. (My traditional evite was only in English). I did it through Punchbowl, however, Paperless Post is also really nice looking.

I was able to see that they received and opened the invitation, however, I had to still text them to remind them to please RSVP. Apparently, the majority of our guests do not understand what a RSVP date is - so maybe it was just our guests in general.

A note: If they had reliable postal services, I would have mailed them a physical card (even though it is much more expensive to mail out). I just think it's better.

I wouldn't suggest it as sometimes e- invites end up in the spam folder. :-/

I don't see a problem with email STDs but personally I think email invitations aren't a good way to go. Perhaps if you are having a very small casual wedding it wouldn't be so much of an issue. If I got an evite to a wedding I would automatically assume it was a super casual wedding. I would be afraid you would have people show up in jeans or something. The invite tells people a lot about a wedding, including how formal it is (not by directly stating this but by the formality of the invitation-how nice the paper is, the design and font, etc). Not to mention that if you have anyone who isn't 100% computer literate you could be in for a big problem. They might not see the invitation at all or could see it and not understand. Plus, you might not know about this kind of issue until too late to easily fix it. People might miss your invite and then when you call to check on their RSVP you find out that they never saw it and now can't make it because it's not enough notice.

A lot of people's spam filters will catch e-mail that is not from known addresses (and that includes mail from things like Evite, which have their own e-mail addresses rather than coming from yours). You really don't want to chance a lot of people not even seeing the invitations.

I would do paper invites as e-invites might go to Spam boxes or people may miss them or forget. When you send someone something in the mail that they can physically hold, they are less likely to miss or forget about it.

Would you rather have them out your hard STD or invite on their fridge so they do not forget, or have them file it in their e-mail and get lost.

If you can, budget in paper invitations. Websites like VistaPrint are great for inexpensive but nice invitations. Maybe you could send the paper invites, and have the RSVP's done online so you do not have to spend money on an RSVP card.

If you actually want people to remember to come to your wedding, I really wouldn't email the invites!

I had this thought in the beginning, and when I shared my idea with my mom, she said, "Absolutely not. This is your wedding, not a Happy Hour. You will mail invitations." My mom is the most easy-going lady around, so when she puts her for down, I comply. She's usually right too; you should listen to my mom, she's a jewel.

I've seen the Paperless Post e-invites. The designs are pretty but I wouldn't recommend it. I get that paper invites aren't free but you can get some pretty decently priced ones. Keep an eye out for sales.

Also, I agree with a lot of the PPs that it can go into a spam folder and never actually be opened.

I spent less than $200 on invites, and I could have gone cheaper if I printed myself. Address collection is sort of a pain, but I highly recommend sending printed invites. How big is your guest list? I bet you could go simple and do it for less than $100, including postage.

You wrote that you want to do it online so people can RSVP directly. Many people have given alternatives/explanations why you might not want to email invites. But, that doesn't mean you can't have people RSVP directly through weddingwire. This is a function on the website if you build your wedding website through wedding wire. People can search for their name on the site, click on it, and RSVP. Bonus is that it doesn't allow people to "write in" RSVPs for people who aren't invited!

So whether you do email or paper invitations, just put a URL for your wedding wire website and write that people should RSVP there.

However, your elderly relatives might not be able to do this, so you might want to think ahead of who is computer illiterate and include a paper RSVP in theirs, or write your phone number as an alternative way to RSVP.

We received a STD from Paperless Post and it was really nice. Not sure if they will send the invitations that way, but it wouldn't bother me (a friend of mine actually did it years ago before e-invitations were really a thing). I think it's a 'know your crowd' situation. I wouldn't do it for older, non-computer savvy guests, but I think it would be fine for others.