Okay, so it’s time to plan your summer BBQ – how are you going to invite your guests? You can instantly press a button and invite them or take the time to lick some envelopes and reach them a week later. Decisions, Decisions.
I am a huge advocate of snail mail for special events of all kinds (pig roasts to formal weddings). I get enough e-mails, texts, twitter notifications for a small army. I don’t want your Evite or Facebook event to get lost in the shuffle. Don’t get me wrong I LOVE to snoop on who is and isn’t attending and who is a maybe going to grace the party with their presence. By the way, “maybe” attending is not proper etiquette – not pinky’s up kind of proper but eating with your hands at the Ritz proper – you just don’t do it. Either inform the host if you are or aren’t going to be there, stop waiting to see which of your friend, enemy or secret crush is going. Back to my point, sending snail mail has a way of making us feel important. It could be the feel of the paper, the look of the ink or the shape of the envelope, there is no way to compete with fine stationary. Some of my favorite sites for ordering printed invitations are tinyprints.com and minted.com (although they mostly focus on wedding invites they have some fabulous styles). For all of you tree huggers out there – don’t worry I am still not a complete downer on the digital invites, evite.com just launched some new designer designs that can add some elegance to your inbox.
Bottom line is, send the invite however your heart desires but just make sure there’s a party going on.
xoxo Jill
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