CPW: First Bday Party Invites

[thatgirlrachel]

Paper invite. I want an actual invite for her baby book and I will get them on sale from Shutterfly to save money.

[Unknown]

I do paper invite but only for 1st birthday party, and only to put into the baby book. Normally parties are just family and we text or email each other.

[Unknown]

Oct 5, 2016 7:29:58 GMT -5 thatgirlrachel said:

Paper invite. I want an actual invite for her baby book and I will get them on sale from Shutterfly to save money.

My only reason as well

[gdaisy09]

I'd love a paper invite for her baby book, but I just can't justify the cost, especially when everyone we're inviting will already be at my moms for thanksgiving, so we're not even really asking them to attend something seperate.

I have considered setting-up an e-mail account for LO to 1. reserve her an email address and 2. to send her centimental things like e-vites.

[thatgirlrachel]

Oct 5, 2016 7:55:50 GMT -5 gdaisy09 said:

I'd love a paper invite for her baby book, but I just can't justify the cost, especially when everyone we're inviting will already be at my moms for thanksgiving, so we're not even really asking them to attend something seperate.

I have considered setting-up an e-mail account for LO to 1. reserve her an email address and 2. to send her centimental things like e-vites.

I have considered setting up an email account to after I saw it mentioned on Parenting. I haven't taken the time to do it yet, though.

Re: the cost of an invite, you can design pretty inexpensive ones on Shutterfly, Snapfish, and even Walmart. Or, if you wanted to go even cheaper, you could order a digital file off of Etsy (mine was $10) and use that picture to text/email everyone a "special" invite and print a copy for the baby book. I completely understand if you just want to forego invites altogether, but I wanted to mention those to you. 

[gdaisy09]

Oct 5, 2016 8:17:48 GMT -5 thatgirlrachel said:

Oct 5, 2016 7:55:50 GMT -5 gdaisy09 said:

I'd love a paper invite for her baby book, but I just can't justify the cost, especially when everyone we're inviting will already be at my moms for thanksgiving, so we're not even really asking them to attend something seperate.

I have considered setting-up an e-mail account for LO to 1. reserve her an email address and 2. to send her centimental things like e-vites.

I have considered setting up an email account to after I saw it mentioned on Parenting. I haven't taken the time to do it yet, though.

Re: the cost of an invite, you can design pretty inexpensive ones on Shutterfly, Snapfish, and even Walmart. Or, if you wanted to go even cheaper, you could order a digital file off of Etsy (mine was $10) and use that picture to text/email everyone a "special" invite and print a copy for the baby book. I completely understand if you just want to forego invites altogether, but I wanted to mention those to you. 

thanks! some of it is that I just feel like we've got a lot going on and of all the things I'd like to do for her birthday invites are low priority. 

[byjove]

thatgirlrachel, I did Clara's first birthday invites through paperless post- that way I could email the invites, but then was able to print a paper copy for her baby book.

[byjove]

I am not sure if Margs is really having a party... Hm.

[COCO]

I selected phone call invite... we're keeping things simple and using the word party loosely. We plan to have a few family members over for cake.

[RoLoMa]

I did Tiny Prints (Shutterfly family) and I love them.

[thatgirlrachel]

PSA to those wanting to order birthday invites - Shutterfly has a $20 off $20+ sale (plus 30% off of cards and stationary) going on right now.

[physiomeg]

We're doing a paper invite. We just got them in the mail and they turned out lovely - we used Zazzle. There's a photo on one side (no other invite related stuff) so people can just use it as a print to keep.

[inthewoods]

I'm hoping to make them, I love that kind of thing!