We celebrated Alexis's birthday at the first of the month. We bought paper invitations to pass out to her friends at daycare and made a Facebook event for everyone else. When Paperless Post approached me about trying out their service, I immediately decided to send our guests thank you cards.



The site is easy to use. You create an account with your email, Google account, or Facebook account. There are lot of categories to choose from - birthday, graduation, wedding, parties, professional, greetings, and flyers.

Once you pick your category, you pick from dozens of designs or you can upload your own finished design. You can narrow things down by color, shape, number of photos, price, and designer. You can upload photos, edit the text, background and envelope. Invitations include RSVP's, and you can include gifs on some designs.

Once you're satisfied with the design, you enter the email addresses of the people you want to send them to and click send. If you forget someone, no problem. You can go back and add more later. Once your recipients get their card, it'll open with a small animation and they can send you a response.

If digital cards just aren't your thing, there are also paper designs you can have printed.

Now for the cost. Most designs start out free. Customized backgrounds start out at one coin. Your total cost will be the number of coins your finished card comes to multiplied by the number of people you send it to. Coins come in bundles. You can get 25 for $10, 100 for $20, and 1,000 for $100.

In conclusion, Paperless Post is an easy, creative, and fun way to send personalized invitations and thank you's without making a trip to the post office. It's even got great options for professionals that I'm considering using in the future.