So you have decided on a theme, you've set the date, and organized a guest list. How are you going to get people to your event? Well unless you are doing a major media launch for an obscure brand of shoelace cleaner, you can just send an invitation. {Actually, the shoelace cleaning company would probably send out at least one invitation as well} But how do you send out an invitation these days? Does anyone use paper anymore? Do online invites only work for kids parties or girls' night out? And what do you say exactly? How early should you send them? What if no one responds?!?! I know you know the questions, so let's get to some of the answers! Paper or VirtualThe first thing to consider is your event and your guest list.
Once you have decided whether to send paper or virtual invitations, you can browse through some of my favorite links for each.
Design and Print or Send Maybe the templates just don't do your idea justice. In that case, you can alwasy design your invitation from scratch using an online program like Canva {my fav} and it's custom Wedding invitation Designer. Obviously, you are not limited to wedding invitations and there are lots of fun graphic tutorials to help you refine the look. WordingYou've decided on a delivery method but what are you going to say? There is some basic information that your guests will need in order to attend your fab event.
*Be sure to set a clear response method and date. And don't be shy to check with people who haven't responded, everyone is busy these days! When to SendYou want to give your guests the opportunity to receive and reply to your invitation in time for you to put on a fabulous event. If you are having hand embroidered place cards done for each guest, then you may want some advance notice to who is coming and who will not be attending. For a playdate at the park to get ready to go back to school numbers are not so important.
And of course, don't forget to Thank your guests after but we will talk about that in another post!
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