Is it tacky? My sister wants to do it because it will be easier. I must admit I'm kind of bummed. My baby book has a place for the baby shower invite and it seems lame to put in a printout of a website. I guess I shoudl just be happy she wants to throw me a shower.
Post by Velar Fricative on Jan 16, 2015 13:08:33 GMT -5
Oh, and I used celebrations.com for DD's first birthday party invites and I know they had an option for having a few invites printed up and mailed so people could use them as souvenirs. Maybe ask your sister if she can do that so you can have a cardstock paper invite?
Post by autumnfire on Jan 16, 2015 13:20:24 GMT -5
I just got one for the first time the other day. I feel they're a bit tacky depending on the event. Birthday I don't care so much, or a BBQ of some sort. Like the informal events? If it were me I wouldn't do it. If others do it that's fine though, I do kind of side eye it a bit though. The way I see it is your guests should be worth spending the money on postage and an invitation for. I hope that thank you notes will at the very least be sent via snail mail?
Also the one thing I didn't like about the e-vite is it actually showed who could and couldn't go. For some reason I just don't like how visible that is to everyone invited.
As Mekaikoo also pointed out I forget about them. With shower, birthday or wedding invitations they go right on our fridge as a kind of reminder. I suppose I could print out the invitation but I actually enjoy getting snail mail that isn't always bills and holding the pretty invitations
I did Evites for both my showers. In my circle it's fine. If you want paper invites, why not offer to pay for that part of the shower yourself? Everybody wins!
I wouldn't call them tacky, but I do prefer paper for formal invites just because I'm old fashioned like that. Do you have the type of relationship with your sister where you can just tell her you'd prefer paper so you could have the keepsake item? But really, I've gone to showers where the invite was by evite and I didn't bat an eye.
It's NMS. I'm fine with evites in general but I like paper invites for showers and the like. I don't know, I am probably old-fashioned.
ETA: I always wonder what people do for the oldz? Like, my grandma goes to a lot of showers and she deeeeeeefinitely does not have email.
This is how I feel, too. Especially for older folks - and then even just for me. I completely forgot about attending a shower once because it had been an evite and at the moment I saw the invitation I wasn't near my calendar to write it down, then it just got buried in my inbox.
I wouldn't call them tacky but I greatly prefer paper invitations. I would agree with a previous poster that if your sister does go this route paperlesspost has nicer options that maybe you could print out?
I'm traditional, I still send out paper invites. However Evites seem to be the norm with people I know and I notice they get more people responding to them over paper.
i dont think evites for showers are tacky, in my circle this is common. i think a paper invite is a nice touch though. my hosts did for mine and i love that part of my baby book =)
Nope not joking, literally never received an e-vite for anything. Apparently we're all old school in my area.
I wouldn't call them tacky, but I do prefer paper for formal invites just because I'm old fashioned like that. Do you have the type of relationship with your sister where you can just tell her you'd prefer paper so you could have the keepsake item? But really, I've gone to showers where the invite was by evite and I didn't bat an eye.
I'm not sure. She's excited to throw my shower. But, this is goign to sound so ungrateful, but she threw my bridal shower and she did some things that kind of upset me. Specifically, on the invitations she wrote "we're doing an XXX theme, so please bring a small themed gift". Very few people at our shower used our registry and we got some totally random, themed presents that made no sense to me. I was so confused. My sister gave me an invite for a keepsake later and I noticed this line on it and was pretty upset that she specifically asked people to get us "small" gifts.
I don't really understand why you'd ever specify something like that on a wedding shower invite. Particularly since I helped throw her shower and she 3 registries and I made sure everyone knew about them.
I did Evites for both my showers. In my circle it's fine. If you want paper invites, why not offer to pay for that part of the shower yourself? Everybody wins!
Yeah, I thnk I'm going to do that. Although I think she might be weird about it but I don't care.
I wouldn't call them tacky, but I do prefer paper for formal invites just because I'm old fashioned like that. Do you have the type of relationship with your sister where you can just tell her you'd prefer paper so you could have the keepsake item? But really, I've gone to showers where the invite was by evite and I didn't bat an eye.
I'm not sure. She's excited to throw my shower. But, this is goign to sound so ungrateful, but she threw my bridal shower and she did some things that kind of upset me. Specifically, on the invitations she wrote "we're doing an XXX theme, so please bring a small themed gift". Very few people at our shower used our registry and we got some totally random, themed presents that made no sense to me. I was so confused. My sister gave me an invite for a keepsake later and I noticed this line on it and was pretty upset that she specifically asked people to get us "small" gifts.
I don't really understand why you'd ever specify something like that on a wedding shower invite. Particularly since I helped throw her shower and she 3 registries and I made sure everyone knew about them.
I did Evites for both my showers. In my circle it's fine. If you want paper invites, why not offer to pay for that part of the shower yourself? Everybody wins!
Yeah, I thnk I'm going to do that. Although I think she might be weird about it but I don't care.
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