31–40 of 233 posts
>invites are not environmentally friendly As opposed to the sustainability of dozens of people traveling from near and far.
My personal hack that I use for invitations/thank you notes/christmas cards/etc. is this:
You can just create them yourself (any design! copy one off the internet!) in Photoshop/Gimp/Illustrator/PowerPoint/whatever. I won't judge (except if it's PowerPoint).
Then have them printed as 4x6 (or whatever) photos for $0.09 each. With envelopes at $0.03 each and postage at $0.49 you're up to $0.61 per invite, or $85 rather than $480 in OPs case.
Physical wedding invitations are still tradition such that people may get offended if they do not get one in the mail.
Why do you need to "automate" an action you're expecting to perform, in the happy case, once in a lifetime?
For the whole pipeline, you should also connect: Tinder + your calendar app + Opentable to automate the dating process. The output of that can be the input of this.
Although, I'm interested of designs for later stages - around kids. Any suggestions?
(note: this is a joking reference to a meme.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/juliareinstein/this-is-the-future-l...
Feel free to down-vote but at least realize what it is).
In my opinion, this makes the whole process very impersonal. I invited people to my wedding because I care about them and wanted them to share that day with me. Although it was a lot of effort, I was happy to make save the dates, invitations, and hand write thank you notes to every singe one of them. If you're not willing to do that, then you're inviting too many people in my opinion.
Nobody complained, it took a couple hours to get everything set up the way we wanted it, and within a few days we had around a 90% response rate. Only 1 person RSVPed as no so it doesn't seem like anyone got the impression we didn't care about them
>invites are not environmentally friendly As opposed to the sustainability of dozens of people traveling from near and far.
Easy small wins are better than no wins. The goal should be improvement not perfection.
Why do you need to "automate" an action you're expecting to perform, in the happy case, once in a lifetime?
So much critical thinking and negativity in these comments for a fun hack... What's wrong with having fun these days?