Now it is a lot easier to invite people to events with the use of social media sites to do a lot of the work for you. You don’t need to know all your friends and family’s addresses if you have them as ‘friends’ on social media sites.
This is one of the main reasons why sending out an invitation online is made so much easier. All you need is their name and the invitation can be sent to them no problem. Setting up an invite or event online takes a lot less time than ordering or making invites, getting their addresses and then sending to them all in time for them to reply. Things don’t get lost in the post this way and it is possible to ask a lot more people for no money at all.
People can reply as quickly as you make the invite so you know lot sooner and can make arrangements without waiting for people to rsvp. There are also online calendars now and in the case of Facebook, they link up your friends on there to the calendar and remind you when it is there birthday. Like this, you get reminders of when an event you are meant to be attending is coming up.
On the other hand, people love to receive an invitation by hand now. It makes it more personal as people feel as though someone has sat and though to invite them properly, rather than on a social media site when they could have invited ‘everyone’ just to make it easier. There is something fun about planning and making your own personalised invitations from sites such as instantprint.co.uk, particularly when it’s a themed event, wedding or engagement. You can use pages like instantprint.co.uk/invitations to find great ideas on invitation designs and how to create your own wedding or party invite.
You can miss invitations a lot easier online as you can mistake them for spam. It is much easier for them to get deleted. If you receive one by hand you are more likely to keep it somewhere you can see it and update your calendar.
All social media sited offer the opportunity to send out an invite whether it is as a private message or a group event. For people who haven’t got the time or organising invitations aren’t really their thing, sending event invitations online is perfect for them. For other people, who love all the small details, invitations being one of them, sending them out by hand is still the perfect way to asking people to their event.