It was so perfect that Paperless Post contacted me when they did about trying out their website full of gorgeously designed e-cards and invitations, because I happen to be right in the middle of choosing my wedding invites! My fiancé, Jack, and I are getting married this December, and I’ve really been weighing paper invitations vs. online ones.
I really love holding a beautiful, thick cardstock wedding invitation in my hand, but I recognize that it’s not eco-friendly, and no one’s actually going to hang onto it forever (minus my BFF 4-life, whom I not-so-secretly hope will scrapbook my entire wedding for me for the low, low price of my eternal affection).
Plus, Jack is from Poland, so half of the invitations we need to send are for friends and family halfway across the world. That would be a huge extra expense with paper invitations, and who knows how many of them will get lost in the mail.
Paperless Post sent me some coins to use on their website in exchange for this review, so I’ve been having a BLAST looking through the wedding options today. Invitations are such a reflection of the feel you’re going for with the wedding, and this is the first hint people will get as to what to expect on your big day! Here are a few of my favorites:
For if we were getting married on my family’s farm in Ohio:
For if we were getting married in the mountains of Poland:
For if we were having an art deco wedding, which we totally should be since I have 1920s flapper hair through no fault of my own:
The Kate-Spade-designed one I would 100% pick if it fit my wedding in any way:
For if Jack was letting me have the all-pink wedding of my dreams:
For if we were having a Mondrian- or Rothko-themed artsy wedding with a vintage vibe:
And since we’re actually having a tropical destination wedding, two of my island-themed favorites:
The flamingos could not be more me. Pink, kinda kitschy, and designed by my absolute favorite paper goods company, Rifle Paper Co.! Beautiful enough that the picky ladies in my family (
) would approve, and fun enough that you KNOW you’re gonna have a good time at our open bar.
But there was one other that was just so tropical, so elegant, so on-trend that I couldn’t resist . . .
Want to see the one I ultimately chose? Click here to view my sample wedding invitation!
The process of creating my invitation was so fun! I got to customize so many things I didn’t expect to, like even that gold handpainted-looking background the invitation is displayed on! I got to choose my font, the letter size and spacing. I got to choose what the stamp on the front of the “envelope” looks like and an NY-themed postmark to go on top of it. I got to choose a completely different design for the information card that comes with the invitation, and it seemed like the envelope liner choices were endless!
My invitation, exactly as you see there, would cost 6 coins each to email to everyone: 2 coins for the premium card, 1 coin for the custom backdrop, 1 coin for the envelope, 1 coin for the specialty stamp on the front, and 1 coin for the envelope liner I chose.
Let’s say I want to send 100 invitations. I would need 600 coins total, which would cost me $60. Sixty dollars for all of my invitations! (Whereas I think the paper ones I was looking at from another site were about $700?)
Not bad!
I’m still not sure what I’ll choose to do in the end, because the lure of thick paper invitations is still real. But the idea that I wouldn’t have to trek to the post office in the snow with 100 invitations in hand to get postage to Poland is prettyyyyy appealing . . .