Weddingbee Blog

Now that we had our invitation design all figured out, it was time to figure out what to do with them.

For the sake of being green, I’d originally wanted to have nothing else in the envelope except for the invitation itself. I was planning on asking Printable Press to put a small line at the bottom of the invitation that said something like “For additional details and to RSVP, please visit our website” with a link.

But then, I started second guessing myself. The first reason was a practical one: people just don’t read the small print. Period. I don’t want fifty phone calls from guests who were wondering how to RSVP. I also felt that, without a card, our guests wouldn’t have the reminder to RSVP. They’d just stick the invitation somewhere and never think of it again.

The second reason wasn’t practical at all. This reason was inspired by photos of beautifully put together invitation suites. Like these amazing mix tape invitations:

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Or Miss Thimble’s stunning letterpress suite:

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Or this adorable roaring ’20s suite:

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I don’t need over-the-top extravagance. But I want our invitations to look pretty.

And so I came up with a compromise between environmental friendliness and beauty: each envelope will contain one invitation and one RSVP card. There will be no inner envelope, and the RSVP card will be a postcard, so there’s no envelope required for that, either. I’ll probably tie them together with twine or ribbon, and I’m going to steal (ahem…I mean borrow) Mrs. Thimble’s idea of getting teeny little cards to direct our guests to the website.

As far as envelopes go, I considered pocketfolds, but there are so many different kinds! That was too much of a decision for this sloth, so I’m going with plain old envelopes.

Did you have to compromise between green and pretty for your invitations?