Yeah to 'S' in the Sun Herald (19 April 2009) for giving a thumbs down to emailed invitations!
This is truly one of my pet peeves!!
Invitations don't need to be fancy or overdone but they should not be on email or sms either!!
If you are like me, you get hundreds of emails a day and deal with the most to least important and friend's emails tend to be in 'Group Later'...
I like to put an invite on the fridge or my notice board - printing off an email guarantees it to be banished to the bottom of my handbag! (yes people have sent me email invites in the past - hard to believe right?? they do apologise though...)
Beside the fact that it is bad manners not to send an invite!! If you are going to the trouble of organising a get together, an invitation is not that much extra effort! This is the role of the host! Just before you say anything I am not old-fashioned, i just have impeccible manners!!
Remember - you don't have to make them from scratch - there are some great fill-in invitations and kits that make it easy!!
Don't start me on placecards.......
what do you think?
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I couldn't agree more. A friend of mine sent us an invite to her bday party and she went to creative effort to come up with an invite that looked like a record/lp, inviting us to her 70's/80's themed bday party, asking us to dress up. The invite was so fun and it really set the tone of the party. We knew she had organised a fun night. That is the other important factor of an invitation, yes, it's polite :) to post an invitation! It's also the first thing that your guests see to set the tone of the occasion, and from Tanya's invite, we really couldn't wait to go. The invite looked fun and we went and had the best time!!!
ReplyDeleteI'd love to hear your view on placecards! Melita
Thanks Melita! you hit the nail on the head. Invitations set the tone and create the excitement ahead of the event!
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