At what point will society finally deem it acceptable to use Evite or something like it to send out invitations to a formal social function, e.g. Nick & Amy’s wedding? Technologically, we’re already there. What are we waiting for?

We’ve spent a bunch of time recently organizing the guest list, and Amy has put some work already in to the invitations themselves with much more to come. No matter what we do, the nicest invitation we could ever come up with is still going to end up in the garbage. The reply card will get sent back immediately for some, for others (like me) it will sit around for a while, hopefully not get lost or discarded. All the paper and work involved seems to me the most wasteful part of the day.

I’ve mentioned Evite a few times, and I get laughed like I was joking. I suppose I was half-kidding. An event like a wedding deserves a bit more reverence than the advertisement-ridden Evite provides. I have to think there’s a market for elegant, fancy, romantic yet electronic-only invitations. Who wants to join me in bringing it to the people?!

Rant over. Look for your invitation in the mail somewhere in mid-September.