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Email Wedding Invitations: Digital: Yay or Nay?

Email Wedding Invitations: Digital: Yay or Nay? Paper or Online Wedding Invitations? Considering sending digital wedding invitations? Digital wedding invitations? Sending wedding invitations online? If you are considering paperless wedding invitations, we’re sharing tips on what to consider when sending online wedding invitations with RSVP options. Read through to see if email evites for weddings are for you.

Here are your pros and cons to help you decide if email wedding invitations (digital) are for you:

PROS:

  1. Costs Less
  2. Get Creative
  3. Time Savers
  4. Easy Tracking, Organized & Follow-up Friendly
  5. Easy Access for Guests
  6. Eco-friendly

CONS:

  1. No Keepsakes
  2. Informal
  3. Spammy
  4. Everyone isn’t online

** How to send email online wedding invitations?

It can be fun to look for designs and wordings for your wedding invitations! Designs that will match your style and vision!

Wedding invitations send out the vibes and theme of your wedding and convey your greetings to the guests.

Now the question is, are you sending paper invitations, or are you looking into the possibility of switching to an email / online wedding invitation?

We’ve rounded up the pros and cons of email / online wedding invitations to help you decide if this is a Yay or Nay for you!

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Email Online Wedding Invitations: Yay or Nay?

PROS

* Costs Less

No doubt that email / online wedding invitations come at a fraction of the cost of paper physical wedding invitations. Physical wedding invites might cost you $1k+ onwards (depending on your guest count and stationery choice/s), including sending out thank you notes and postcards.

Conversely, online wedding invitations can cost you as little as $50 (depending on your guest count).

* Get Creative

Gone are the days of the generic uncreative online email invitation designs. Email wedding invitations like those from Greenvelope have an amazing classic, elegant and beautiful designs that you can easily customize.

* Time Savers

Your wedding to-do list seems never-ending, even up to the day of your wedding. Email online wedding invitations can help you save time with design selection, wordings, compiling of contacts, and tracking responses.

* Easy Tracking, Organized & Follow-up Friendly

With traditional paper wedding invitations, you not only have to mail the wedding invites, but you also have to keep track of misplaced postages, sending them again, RSVPs, and follow-ups.

It can get unorganized pretty quickly, especially with so many moving parts.

Online wedding invitations (digital) save you from this possible “organizational challenge” and enable you to track opens and resend them much more efficiently than the physical wedding invitation mailing process.

* Easy Access for Guests

Your guests can easily access your invitation since most smartphones now have email access. There is now no “forgetting” the physical wedding card and the time and location.

They can pull up their phone and click on the address, and it will link to their Google Maps.

Your guests can also click on the calendar link on your online wedding invitation, so your wedding date will be added to their calendar right away!

Just all these things are extra accessible and easy for your guests! Yep. Definitely, something online wedding invitations give to your guests.

* Eco-friendly

Suppose you’re getting any chance to contribute to the better of your environment. Please do it! Skipping traditional wedding invites means saving some trees and helping make the environment better in your own little way! Also, there would be no waste added to the earth.



CONS

* No Keepsakes

Ain’t we all love to keep a memory of the most special events of our life? It is your wedding, and you or your mother would like to save your wedding card for years to come.

Online wedding invitations can’t give you that feeling. Even though you can save the graphic file on your laptop for how long you wish, it can’t compete with physical invites.

PRO TIP: You can have separate physical invitations to those you think would love to keep them, like family and closest friends. Elders, for the most part, would appreciate having something to hold.

For the rest of your guests, they might actually be more appreciative of an online invitation instead of a mailed one.

PRO TIP #2: If you are looking to mail something (don’t we all?), you can mail out save-the-date and include your email invitation note to follow on it. This will set their expectations and look out for the invitations in their email.

As well, since you are not tracking responses from save-the-date, it can serve as a keepsake, especially if your save date has a photo of you and your partner!

* Informal

While some people think of online wedding invitations to save time and money (which is true!), they also seem very informal, which might not please the older generation. Traditional wedding cards are thought to show more respect towards guests, and they feel honored. 

Per the above pro tip, you can send physical cards to those you feel will be somewhat offended or truly do not have access or is as tech-savvy as the rest.

* Spammy

Although this is less likely, depending on the email host that your guest has, there is still a possibility that it might end up in spam. Greenvelope has guides on steps you can take, so your invitations will be less likely to end up as spam.

* Everyone isn’t online

Like your grandparents and the older generation, some of your guests might not be familiar enough with the use of the internet. Furthermore, they might not have an email address where you could send the online wedding invitation. 

Email Online Wedding Invitations: Yay or Nay?

Email Online Wedding Invitations: Yay or Nay?

What do you think? Online wedding invitations; Yay or Nay? We’ll say they are Yay for sure!

There are pros and cons to anything we choose. But we can also creatively navigate around it! This is why we added pro tips and creative approaches to the above to help you balance the pros and cons!

How to Send Email Online Wedding Invitations

Deliver elegant online invitations directly to all of your friends and family with Greenvelope. Whether you want to upload your own custom design or tailor one of our exclusive designer suites, every invitation is delivered, complete with a personalized digital envelope, liner, stamp, and RSVP tracking. You can also include and add things like:

  • Play Music
  • Google Maps
  • Calendar Links
  • Hotel Information
  • Add links (i.e., gift registries, hotel booking, taxi booking, venue info, parking, menu selections, etc.)
  • Upload files
  • Integrate photos
  • and more…

As per usual, every wedding is different, and we hope this guide will help you navigate around selecting the best option for your wedding invitation; physical or email/online!

There you are! Email Online Wedding Invitations: Yay or Nay?!

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With over a decade of experience in the wedding and event industry, our designs and planning services have been featured in notable blogs and publications in Canada and the United States. Our team's goal is to share inspirations and guides to help you plan your wedding and event in style while having fun and pocketing some savings along the way!

Inspiring you to celebrate life and love! xo, Maria & the WPR team : Good vibes always bb! ~xo~

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