Guide
How to send your wedding invitations without chasing addresses
When you get married you want to invite everyone with a proper card in the post. Email and WhatsApp are fine for reminders, but a wedding invitation still arrives on the doormat. The hard part is not the card: it is gathering the postal addresses of friends, family and the people you only see at other weddings.
Collecting
Mailbook is a free tool that does the gathering for you. After signing up you get a personal link that you and your partner can share over WhatsApp, Messenger or email. Whoever opens it is asked to add their own address, so nobody has to be chased individually and nobody types your address list for you.
Everything lands in your own address list, ready to download when the invitations go out. Have a look at an example invitation to see what your guests get.
Sending
There are a few ways to get the cards out of the door:
- Export the list and hand it to your card printer, so they print the address straight onto the envelope.
- Print address labels yourself from a file you download from Mailbook.
- Have Mailbook print the labels and post them to you.
- Or write the envelopes by hand, which is still the warmest option.
Addressing them yourself keeps you flexible for last-minute changes. Printed envelopes or labels tend to look tidier, and save an evening of handwriting.
If you go with labels, you decide how they look. There are four papers (white, transparent, textured and gold) and you set the typeface, the address spacing and the ink, optionally with a border or an icon. Rings or a border of hearts suit a wedding, but leaving it plain works just as well. Try it here:
Getting started
So if you are getting married and want the invitations out without the address hunt, start with Mailbook, like the thousand-odd couples who did so before you. Want to see the rest first? Read how Mailbook works.