We went to a party a couple of weeks ago that used evite, at least 75 or 80 people.

More evites than not, that I’ve received in recent years, are from a contact’s’ hacked emails. I don’t open them. The need to click on a link is problematic in this day and age, IMO. If you're looking for a service purely for RSVP's, that you would give a website oe qr code for on an invite, that I'd use. Just s heads up, as I doubt I'm alone here.

More importantly…. anything you wanna tell us, Rob?? 🙂

Ive gotten some invitations through Paperless Post and it was pretty seamless.

HA! Food. It's a symposium for work, to honor my boss. I'm not getting married. Ever.

Ah I was thinking more along the lines of MIL than wife! But for a work thing, I get why you want to keep it electronic. I imagine one concern would be getting it through your filters. Again, only an issue if you're using it for the invite itself.

Food, the future MIL is in the midst of buying them a house in a bluer state. They won't marry until things settle down. Sigh. Which means, they may never marry. Heck, she asked me to coordinate the future SIL's, of my baby, wedding when they all came to visit on Mother's Day 2024. And that one is also on hold. We were all going to fly to PR.

"More evites than not, that I’ve received in recent years, are from a contact’s’ hacked emails. I don’t open them. The need to click on a link is problematic in this day and age, IMO."

^^ Yep, this. Even the young-uns might be getting away from Evites. I say this because my niece just sent me an invitation through the (gasp!) mail and requested a phone call for RSVP.

If it's for work, I'd check into what sort of systems you have available at work. My mind goes immediately to Outlook calendar, where you can track responses, but that probably won't work so well if a whole bunch of employees have time blocked off and your boss doesn't -- would be suspicious or a clue, if it's a surprise for your boss.

Oh, the date is in stone. Matters not if the others can or cannot make it. It's his day, not theirs.

To avoid the problem of people being reluctant to click on evite or similar links, just send a ‘save the date’ email with no links and tell rhem to watch for an evite with details and rsvp links to follow soon.

That, I have already done. I don't think anyone's worried about clicking on an evite that I send, they all know me. Thanks for the advice though!

But if your email has been hacked at any point, emails that look like they come from you and emails that actually come from you look the same to people receiving them, until they open them.

I sent the save the date at least a couple of months ago. These people are looking for an RSVP from me. It'll be okay. They're actually waiting on me. The event is in September.

It's not always the sender of the evite that can be hacked. Everyone who receives it is at risk for being hacked. I belonged to a group where the sender would send an electronic evite, and every time there was someone within the group that got hacked. We could never figure out where or who was being hacked and where it originated. We stopped using electronic evites because of it, and we all stopped getting hacked. Coincidence? Who knows. We all recognized once we stopped communicating via an electronic evite, we all stopped getting hacked. This happened several times, so more than coincidence?