Why Birthday Invitations are Becoming Obsolete.

Found this article written about Birthday Invitations, of course it can also be applied to wedding invitations as a creative way to bring people to your special party:


"The title says it all; how many people above the age of thirteen actually use birthday invitations? Not many. With the advent of email, less and less people are actually using real mail (snail mail) to invite their friends and loved ones to their birthday parties, shindigs, bashes, and get-togethers. So what does that mean? People are still throwing huge parties which means that everyone is still getting their invitations somehow. Sadly, it was social networking and web 2.0 that gave the finishing blow to paper, personalized, birthday invitations. Things like Facebook, Myspace, Friendster, all have built in applications to allow a user to invite large volumes of friends to an ‘event’. There’s no need for personalization, a simple webpage is made and a link is sent to a number of recipients. Simple, cold, and completely impersonal, but effective. And the age is continuously shrinking for those that subscribe to the traditional way of inviting people to their birthday parties.

So what is a person to do? How does one of traditional tastes survive in this expanding digital world? A simple fusion of both tradition and personalization with technology. But how?! Here’s an example that I’ve tried, tested, and found to work to a great degree. If you have access to a video camera, or a web camera, all you need to do is set yourself up in a relatively quiet room (for audio recording purposes) and then give a short testimonial for why you want a specific person to come to your birthday party. This will take time, a little bit of technological know-how, but it will be worth it. You can then ship off each movie either on a CD/DVD to your respective friends, or you can email each one separately. This will not only make your friends realize how much you care about them, but you can keep up with the technological curve."