hand-delivering invitations

[frenchie]

Here a stamp is very expensive (50cts) and it feels silly to spend that much when I could hand-deliver at least half with no trouble whatsoever, and have more money to make the invitations prettier.

Is it tacky, though?

[WebLady]

I don't know if there is any etiquette on this, but I don't see a problem with it; as long as you are close to the people and see them often anyway.

If it was like close family or close friends and you visited for another reason, I think it would be ok bring an invite with you. I think it would be a little weird with someone you rarely see or talk to ... they may see it like you are too cheap for a stamp :p

[SerendipityCrafts]

I see nothing wrong with it.

If I were to hand deliver the invites, I would end spending more time in doing so, because I would end up staying and yacking at each place LOL

[bichonlvr]

Me too :)

I think it will be fine!

Make some fun out of it...stop by people's homes with the special "announcement." They will love it!!!

[EarlyBird]

i think etiquette says not to do this but i hate etiquette sometimes. im doing this too with my engagement invites. i work with 30 of my family members and see no reason to send invites to them when i see them every day. My fmil had a sh** fit so i told her, okay okay just give everything to me, i will stamp and send.. so she will never know. im only going to stamp half of them :)

[Camel]

Man, I'm actually a little bit jealous. Our invites will cost .95 cents a piece to mail!

We're going to mail most (except for close family) but we're trying to have a phone RSVP to save money on return stamps. I think we've gotten around this simply because we've pushed our wedding up and it'll take too long to mail RSVP's.

[shawnsgirl]

Just to let you know...I hand delivered all of my coworker's invites, two good friends (because I could never get ahold of them to get their address), and a old friend of the family just because I was in the neighborhood. All of them were fine with it, and my coworkers kind of apprectiated because they knew that "our team" were the only ones invited and they get to car pool together to the wedding..It actually worked out better than me sending these invites by mail...

[hummingbird521]

I don't believe their is any rule of thumb on this. Even if there is don't always follow some etiquette rules. I would only do it however for the persons I see regularly though. Like family and certain friends. I would not hand deliver say to someone I haven't seen in 6 months or so. That would be tacky. lol.

[domeafavor]

I think it's perfectly fine to do it as long as you're close to the people. I think its more personal hand delivering your invitations to people who mean a lot to you. Plus sometimes like shawnsgirl stated you might not even have the address of really close friends.

[sunrise2112]

I'm hand delivering about 25% of mine. I think it's stupid to waste the money on postage to send an invitation to people you see everyday.

[Trillian]

I actually started a thread about saving postage because I have to mail them ALL. We aren't inviting anyone from our area (we've been here only a few months and I have no friends here close enough to invite :( ) so all my invites have to cross state lines.