A DAY LATE ON TODAYS POST DUE TO THIS GUYS BIRTHDAY:
As we have finally arrived home for a little stay and are getting closer to the Wedding, (just over two weeks!) I thought i'd write a little post about how we saved £100s on our wedding and eliminated many nerves and worry using an Email service instead of Physical paper invitations. So far the main thing I want to stress about planning a wedding from the other side of the globe is to PRIORITISE! Saving hard earned dollars on evites gave us freedom to do some other great things for our special day!
The average figure for the cost of a UK wedding was put at a whopping £24,000 by Brides Magazine From a previous figure of £50 in the 1950s!
With all this unnecessary spending going on, And our current journey being far from traditional, We opted for Paperless Post.
I am constantly told by my loved ones that I spend far too much time on my phone.
*isnt he gorgeous?!*
As we have finally arrived home for a little stay and are getting closer to the Wedding, (just over two weeks!) I thought i'd write a little post about how we saved £100s on our wedding and eliminated many nerves and worry using an Email service instead of Physical paper invitations. So far the main thing I want to stress about planning a wedding from the other side of the globe is to PRIORITISE! Saving hard earned dollars on evites gave us freedom to do some other great things for our special day!
The average figure for the cost of a UK wedding was put at a whopping £24,000 by Brides Magazine From a previous figure of £50 in the 1950s!
With all this unnecessary spending going on, And our current journey being far from traditional, We opted for Paperless Post.
I am constantly told by my loved ones that I spend far too much time on my phone.
If i dont have the latest iphone, I will definitely complain about my one year old phone not working properly, I spend most of my communication (especially living away from home) Via Phone or email. And I still at my age, have failed to really grasp the art of posting a letter.
Goodbye to the days of thank you cards your mother would force you to sign! Birthday cards unless given in person are slowly being swapped out by a free tiny facebook greetings accompanied by an embarrassing tagged photo. Some say it is poor manners but I have more contact than ever with my loved ones! It has made travelling a breeze and minimized the pangs of homesickness drastically. For us anyway, The option of tracking down an odd 100 addresses from overseas for our home wedding in Perth Australia was not an option at all. Let alone chasing down rsvps and getting over frustrated at the guests who never seem to hand them in on time! (I am definitely guilty of this!)
I was dreading the whole thing until I came across Paperless Post. Recently a friend of mine sent me an invitation to a launch party utilising the service. And that is exactly what I thought it was for; Terrys Last day at work, Halloween parties and Housewarmings. But it turns out, There is many different styles of invitations, weddings, save the dates, Birthdays etc and it is ultra user friendly! The wedding invitations gorgeous (even the free options!) At first, I must admit that I was apprehensive about what people might think and then I realised that this is MY day. Perhaps it was tacky, but I absolutely could not remember a wedding invite that I received that did not eventually end up in the trash smeared with peanut butter. Does receiving a Paperless Post Evite make our wedding day any less important or any less formal? I don't think so. Are you not going to come because you didn't get tangible invitation in the mail? I think not. In fact, I think it reveals a lot about who we are as a couple: Practical, green no nonsense people who also like to save money.
The process was easy apart from all the people who answered my email request message with their full address (almost half the invitees!) Which then lead to me asking again in some sort of embarrassing "Uh yeah we decided to do something different" dance. I haven't actually received a wedding evite and neither it seems had any of my guests but due to the easy user interface, Even my 80 year old great aunt managed to open, click accept and write me a quick thank you message using the service. That is another huge plus! The amount of times I have lost an RSVP card or my invite has flown off the fridge if I left the back door open, Paperless post gives you a digital invite with all the information you need. If there are any last minute changes you can easily message all your guests at once and let them know the updated information, and you do not have to worry about unaccounted people crashing your wedding as they lost their rsvp card or showing up to the wrong place as the weddings location details are covered by some food substance. Easy. Design, Email see who has or hasn't opened the invitation and receive the RSVPS in no time. If the emails aren't opened or rsvps unfinalised, Paperless post avoids all those awkward "Did you get your invitation..." conversations by sending them a friendly reminder. Out of our 65 invitations that went out, 47 had accepted in the first 24 hours. Instant relief to know that you are not going to be celebrating alone! It also made it easier to send through our registry once we decided on a service. (Another stunning avenue called Envelope Registry! This is ours and we are in LOVE!)
Though it is definitely not for everyone. For us, Paperless Post makes sense! I don't need to worry about a designer, calligrapher, printing, postage, addresses or even reminders! It is easy on the trees and a good tool for the budget bride. Try it for your save the dates! (We failed getting to those!) And apart from the odd email that might end up in the spam folder, which is easily noticed after a while. You will not be disappointed.
For those who can not stand my blasphemy please check out the wonderful talented designers based in London at Wolf & Ink
*Actual Invite cropped {within the housewarming section to suit our HOME theme}*
Would you do/accept Email Invitation/s? Or have you used them yourself? Let us know how you feel!
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