RSVP online only?

When i was MOH for my bestie, she did online RSVPs and she totally regretted it. she had people calling her and her mom for months because they couldn't figure it out. i took a lesson from that and I'm doing RSVP postcards. Most of my family are older people and some of them don't even have computers. D:

One of my cousins got married this January and put a special not in the invites that her RSVP was online and included the link. She said it worked just fine.

It's nice to do it the old-fashioned way, but I know how I am, I'm a procrastinator and I would have that RSVP sitting on the counter to go in the mail for weeks. I live in a house - and all I would have to do is put it in the mailbox and pull the flag up and when a cousin got married, it STILL took me forever to get the RSVP out. So that being said, I am down with just letting people log onto some site (as long as it's pretty) and RSVP instead of collecting all those cards and keeping track of it all. I think it's ingenious!

I mailed paper invitations but gave a website for the RSVP - online only. I put it on the front and back of the invite. I didn't have time to check the mail every day - it was way easier to get alerts to my phone. Besides - I was invited to a wedding two years ago and that RSVP card sat on my counter filled out for weeks. So I know the struggle of figuring out where a mailbox is, etc. No one has time for that. Then, if I were to collect RSVPs from the mail, I would have to log it on the computer somehow, so why do all that when I could just have it electronically keep track?

Wow - how pretentious! This is a matter of personal preference -- not "LOWERING" your invitations. I'm also a traditionalist and after extensive polling, I'm gifting my guests the ease of RSVPing online. Also, I laughed out loud at "It's worked well for decades" -- I've seen people add their own plus ones (and twos) in the margin of RSVP cards; cards get lost in the mail; cards omit a return address; mail get delayed; guests lose their RSVP card before replying...I think the list of things that can go wrong is endless! Our custom illustrations and day-of stationary are going to cost thousands of dollars, and our website is fabulously elegant. It's funny to know some judgmental person is out there in the world claiming our invitations won't be elegant without a paper RSVP.

We did eco-invites from Greenvelope.com, $200 for the year of unlimited invites. Our guests could RSVP through their computer, cellphone, tablet, whatever. It also kept track of our invites and made a chart for us. They have diff price points depending if you want to send less invites out.

No one said anything to us about rsvping online, it was definitely easier for 90% of our young guestlist. The older folks we called and rsvp'd for them.

Absolutely loved their service, and they have very formal or casual design templates.

My RSVP and registry was on the back of the invite because they are both website only places. That is becoming the new norm I think. Save yourself the stamp, almost everyone has a smart phone so it will take them two seconds, instead of trying to remember to fill out the card and stick it in the mail. I'm sure I'll have some people text or call just saying they are coming instead of even going online as well.