Free Online invitations, e-cards, e-announcements, and e-save-the-date invitations are great and creative ways of communicating with family members regarding a family reunion. If you haven’t yet used an online invite or online invitation website you are truly missing out. You can easily create beautiful online cards, announcements, and invitations. You simply select from an selection of pre-designed templates, enter event details, import your contacts from your email account, i.e. Yahoo! Mail, Gmail, etc., and with a click you can send to all of your family members at once or post online and easily track the responses.
The features and options available for online invites vary from website to website. Therefore, you will need to check around and make comparisons. Search the internet and you will find some which are ad free, some which allow the use of movies, as well as others which allow you the option of photo sharing after the event. Because some of these online websites provide the option for selling tickets, you can easily use this feature for family reunion fees/dues payments. There is one that has Twitter Integration. Therefore, all invitees can further promote the event by tweeting about it. With popularity of the internet and social networking sites, this is truly a great option.
There are advantages and disadvantages to free online invitations. With the current state of the economy, one of the main advantages is the cost. There is no denying the money saved when an online invite is used. You save the cost of printing as well as postage. Another advantage is the virtual response time. You don’t have to wait for the invitation to arrive like you do when using regular mail and you can start receiving RSVP’s almost immediately. For me, the main disadvantages regarding online invites, is the fact, that no everyone is online, has an email address, and/or knows how to navigate online. This is especially true for several seniors in my family. Therefore, for my dear Aunt Helen, and Aunt Yvonne, to name a few, I simply mail their invitations.
Haven’t used online invitations? Consider this option as the official invite for your next family reunion! Remember to be creative and have fun!
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Hi, my name is Kathleen and I’m a “family-a-holic” as well as a "family reunion-a-holic”! I have not only one addiction but two…my family and our family reunions. They told me to go Rehab but I said no, no, no…I won’t go, go! 
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