There's nothing I love more than an Evite for your annual Halloween party or summer barbecue bash. They're fun, free, and easy to execute, three of my favorite things. But for weddings I've always favored traditional paper invites. I mean, it's your wedding, not a Super Bowl party, so doesn't it deserve a little fanfare? Plus, I'm getting a migraine just thinking about all the older relatives who aren't on "the email" yet, or sending an evite to your mom's boss and having it wind up in his spam folder.
That said, it IS 2013, and I recently found out my Grandma Viv not only owns a cell phone but has been sending texts. So maybe it's time to embrace the technology? Jonathan Adler's new collection with Paperless Post may have just swayed me. Check out these adorbs designs:
Wedding Invitation 1
Wedding Invitation 2
Wedding Invitation 3
Wedding Invitation 4
Not everything is metallic, but these four options are my faves, in part because they'd be SO EXPENSIVE to print in real life, especially the one with gold and silver.
Click here to see Jonathan Adler's entire Paperless Post collection.
They're not free, which kind of has me feeling wishy-washy, since Paperless Post does have free wedding invites, but you could send 75 invites (enough for about 150 guests) for $16, about 10 cents each, which is a serious savings over ANY printed invites. Even if you use a free template (I adore these) they're going to set you back about $35 for stamps—plus, the cost of cards and envelopes—and that doesn't include the extra charge if your invites require extra postage. So I think you can justify the 16 bucks.
Is it cute or cheesy to email your wedding invitations? Would you do it? Have you ever received a wedding evite? (I have, and I was totally fine with it!)
Even if you don't want to send evites for your wedding itself, there are cute templates for other wedding-y events; the first one up there is worded for an engagement party, although you could customize it to be a wedding invite. And there's no denying the invites are cute!