![]() Like Paperless Post, Evite Premium also sends an invitation to your guest’s email with a link to a personalized envelope. I paid $12 on Evite for 50 invitations the same number of invitations from Paperless Post - with similar features (3 coins per invite) - would have cost $45. Not that $33 more is a deal breaker, but since I anyway liked Evite’s template better, it just made sense for me. (2) Evite was quite a bit less expensive for what I wanted to do. (1) I liked Evite’s templates better, and In the end, however, I decided to go with the Evite Premium for two reasons: ![]() I liked the interface a lot, and the experience of the invitee – how the invitation looked once I sent it to myself as a sample. I set up a Paperless Post account and even created an invitation for the party. While there are countless paper-free options, the two that I looked at most seriously, based on recommendations from friends and KOAB readers, were: Not only does a paperless invitation help us to keep our costs down significantly, but it also allows us to easily contact everyone by email in the event of a rain out. His party is going to be at a minor league baseball game, where we were able to inexpensively rent out one of the corporate suites. But for my son’s party, we decided to go with an emailed invitation. You save not only on printing, but also on postage.įor reasons that I explain below, we decided that we wanted a traditional paper invite for the kiddush. The least expensive option for your invitations is paperless. But for now, I want to focus on one our first expenses: Invitations. Stay tuned for more posts on other components of the Bar Mitzvah as well, including clothing, meals for out of town guests, and even the tfilin bag. We did get creative with the kiddush to keep costs a bit lower, which I’ll post about that, too – but probably not until after the Bar Mitzvah, when I have a bit more perspective on how it turned out! Even still, it’s definitely costing us more than if we had the flexibility to self-cater our kiddush. We went from a shul of 100 to 400, which quadruples the cost of a kiddush. Plus, our shul has an in-house caterer, which means we’re locked into a minimum cost. This is one the blessings of moving to a much bigger community. I do want to be totally upfront with you, though, that while I’m spending significantly less than the national average, it is still more than I had anticipated. Many of you have asked me to share cost-saving suggestions and I am happy to do that. My family is officially in the six week countdown to my oldest son’s Bar Mitzvah and I seriously have all-things- simcha on the brain! I paid for everything myself I was not “comped”, nor do I expect to be, by any of the companies I mention in this post. None of them knew I have a blog, nor did that fact impact the pricing or treatment I received. This post is an honest accounting of my experiences with each of the invitation companies I encountered.
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