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So we started planning out wedding invitations and I gotta say….wedding invitations is like watching a tree holocaust going on. There’s the outer envelope, the inner envelope, the invitation, the directions to the invitation, the clear tracing paper thingy, the vellum something that does something I don’t know, the little envelope, the registry card, the RSVP card, the stamp on the outer envelope, and stamp on the inner envelope…and so on so forth. There’s enough paper in there to make up an enchanted forest.
And let’s be honest - at least for guys, we don’t care about this stuff. We don’t keep the invitations and sadly, we won’t remember them either. Granted, at the moment we’ll say stuff like ‘oh wow, cool…the letters are bumpy.’ But the next day it’ll be a coaster for our guinness. Or on the side, there will be a scribble of “BUY FOOT POWDER FROM TARGET.”
And now that it’s also trendy to be green, isn’t it time we think about the trees? So, I suggest there should be a
DO-NOT-SEND-WEDDING-INVITATION registry.
By calling “1-800-DO-NOT-SEND-WEDDING-INVITATION” it’ll add you to a registry of guys that seriously don’t care about fancy shmancy invitations and will be more than happy to accept an email or evite instead..or if paper form is necessary, a post-it note. Now keep in mind, I’m not saying do not INVITE us, please still do. Just don’t go the extra mile - just tell us where and when. You can skip the who part even, just replace that with FREE FOOD and that works.
If you think about it, this is a win win situation. We guys don’t have extra crap to look through in our mail, and people sending them out can save $4 a pop on each of those invites. In fact, this is a win win win situation cause trees can live another day too….you know, trees that house cute aminals like squirrels, chimps, and dinosaurs.
So please, someone out there with a little bit more ambition and self discipline - what say you? Someone start this thing and add my name to this list.
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LMAO! cute and enviro-responsible!
I like the foot powder quip
Welcome back, Mr. Monkey!
Nice. I know quite a few people who would love to be on that list. Or you could get your invites from http://www.seal-n-send.com. Much less paper stuffing.
i hope this post isn’t too controversial with all our invitation loving brides, but i’m sure many guys (and gals!) do feel this way. i certainly appreciate a nice invitation, but definitely wouldn’t mind an email rsvp. 
My fiance’s name will be on that list! I can’t count the number of times he said “Why can’t we just do an e-vite?”
Trust me… I consolidated an invite the other day to two guy roommates…. totally wrong etiquette wise but I knew they just wouldn’t ever know or care.
Ok…. Mr. monkey’s icon is just toooo precious … I want - I want!!! (esp. since Mr. Lemon’s ultimate nickname is “Monkey”)
It was sadly my fiance who refused to use evites for our wedding. Someone has told me straight to my face that she would not attend my wedding if invited through only evite. To be frank, the formal invites are for the women to ooh-ahh over. You guys just get it too because, well, we’ve gone through the trouble to get them already. Also, you guys seem to easily be pursuaded to think something like this is tacky by the women in your lives, even if you didn’t give it a second thought initially yourselves. I’d love to just evite, but it just isn’t worth all the crap I’d get for doing it, ya know?
Haha!
Paper invitations can be really pretty, but we didn’t want to spend that much money and time on something that most of our guests will toss. Our wedding is very small and casual, so we’re spending money only on the things we care a lot about. We put together a nice email invitation and didn’t hear any complaints.
The only kind of physical invitation we would seriously consider is the DVD that was blogged about a couple weeks ago. We loved the idea of that as a follow-up to our email.
we don’t do beautiful invitations for guys we do it for their dates/girlfriends/wives - kinda like our shoes and bags..
I agree about sustainability, but some of the older family we are inviting don’t even own a computer and wouldn’t know how to use one if they did!
Thanks for the great post and please add my FI to that list!
I love your monkey icon too! Actually, with my guys friends, I won’t bother sending them all that jazz. Just the invite and rsvp. They won’t read it anyway. They still ask me when our wedding is. I just need to tell them when to show up.
I didn’t know there was a Mr. Monkey…a strange resemblance to Curious George…
Well, I for one LIKE invitiations. Only, wouldn’t it be cooler if they came by carrier pigeon? Or maybe owl…?
Ooh! That would be awesome. By owl like in Harry Potter!! lol
As much as I like traditional invitations, I predict we will see them fade away with upcoming generations. It was mentioned that some of the older generations don’t use the internet or own a computer. As that generation moves on to “greener pastures” there won’t be a real reason to continue paper invitations other than tradition, which I think will lose out to cost.
But, to be eco-friendly there are eco-friendly “tree free” invitation options such as recycled cotton. They are real nice but again they seem to be more expensive than the standard paper invitations.
sign me up!
for our own wedding, we’re only 1/2 way there…
paper invitations, but no inner envelope, and no reply cards (online rsvps)!
actually, mr. popcorn and I came to the agreement that only people who couldn’t be trusted with email or a telephone inviation or who I worry would find it seriously weird would get a paper invitation, and we’d only have one envelope, the invite, a reception card, and a card with emails and phone numbers for rsvp-ing. I’d just as soon send inviations to everyone, but that’s how we compromised.
Here’s a response I got today (dialogue from I to Mr. Lemon)
I: Went a little overboard on the invitation
ML: You got it already?
I: Fancy
I don’t quite get the holocaust reference, but whatever.
hahaha! hahahahahaa … save the earth! and the dinosaurs!
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Wedding Date: September 2007
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