paperless post

making your own invites is such a fun and personal thing to do but if you run out of time, here's a great alternative: for big parties, i've been using this awesome website, paperless post, to send out invitations to friends. they have hundreds of templates to chose from for all sorts of occasions and the majority of the options are really quite nice! when you sign up, you're given 25 free stamps (1 stamp/invite) to use and once you've run out, buying more is really cheap (i believe 100 stamps for $8). you can also bling out the inside of the envelopes for extra punch! sign up to see what i mean.
so not your normal cheesy e-vite.

this is what your guests will see...

and slowly the invite emerges from the envelope (this can be glitzed-up)

the final reveal! our holiday party invitation

try it out and tell me what you think!