Physical wedding invitations are still tradition such that people may get offended if they do not get one in the mail.
And people who get offended at things like that are the exact people I wouldn't want at my wedding.
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#112Earlier quoted context omitted.
I am sure there are APIs for postcards. Heck, there are APIs for handwritten postcards ;)
You can also facetime the ceremony if you a groom but still insanely busy working startup life...
i.e. the ending of Flubber[1]
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not that those rating systems can't be gamed, but yeah, this would definitely be better than the current situation of criminalized prostitution. esp if prostitutes could leave reviews of clients. i imagine there'd be less scamming, violence, and disease transmission on both sides of that sort of transaction if there were reputable rating services that let prostitutes and clients vet one another. it would also lessen…
You could even get a little blue "verified" checkmark next to your name after you pass an STD test.
Holy shit this is a startup idea! Who is in?
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#114In 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.
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That's a good chance to set the tone on how you'll intend to live life from now on. Many people seem fall back to tradition, succumb to pressure and go against their own values when the wedding comes around: Spending too much on the event, diamond ring, church ceremony despite being non-religious, doing a traditional celebration instead of something individual and fun, or geeky like OP.
Counterpoint: it's also worth considering the costs of breaking with tradition. I mean, sure, nobody has to get married. But then you might not get custody rights over your children. It might be more difficult to pick your kids up from school. Perhaps it will complicate inheritance. You won't get the tax breaks. You'll have to explain your relationship every time you're introduced to more traditional people, which mi…
Is this a cultural thing? I have had 0 discussions about a non-diamond ring.
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#116I'm working on a check-in system for our reception using a Raspberry Pi, a RC522 reader and MIFARE RFID cards. Guests tap their card to check-in and the monitor displays their table number. I'll log their check-in time among other things. Is there a point to it? No, it's just to be fun and cool.
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#117Lol. No wonder Nerds are single. There are events in life which are very personal and people value it when you actually spend time for them and with them.
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#118I like it, but I think if I'd sent out save the dates via SMS for my wedding I'd have been sleeping alone for quite a while.
Perhaps a nice card from https://lob.com/ with a QR code to the RSVP form?
"Perhaps a nice card from https://lob.com/ with a QR code to the RSVP form?"
Better to use an Oh By Code, which doesn't need a reader and can be written/read by humans:
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#119Earlier quoted context omitted.
If I decide to fly by private jet but bring my own reusable water bottle, have I done what I can?
Yes, if you needed to fly by private jet somewhere, either for time or because the place you need to get to doesn't have commercial air service. You would indeed be "doing what you can".
I think his point is you wouldn't need to fly by private jet anywhere.
Doing what you could would be choosing another solution.
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I am sure there are APIs for postcards. Heck, there are APIs for handwritten postcards ;)
Lob.com - postcards API
Just an anecdote, but I tried to use lob.com to send out Save the Dates for my wedding. The couple of test postcards we used did not arrive on time, and the tracking didn't work at all. Their support wasn't good at addressing my specific case – they mostly told me “This is how the website works”.
It could have been that I wasn't using it right, but I didn't have the time to troubleshoot. We ended up printing a bunch of cards at FedEx and addressing and sending them by hand. Everything worked smoothly.