The Red, White, and Green

Image via Paperless Post; www.paperlesspost.com

Last week, I received a truly beautiful online invitation to a holiday party. In fact, so stylish was this evite — complete with a shimmery virtual envelope that “opened” when I clicked on it — that it made me rethink whether you could send a wedding invitation via email.

The company is called Paperless Post, and even though the site is still in beta, it’s already received a boatload of press, including write-ups in Vogue, The New York Times, W, and Lucky. And no wonder; as I discovered while hunting down a suitably elegant evite for my brother’s bachelor party (I’m the best “man,” and he requested a nice dinner in lieu of the traditional debauchery), it’s slim pickings out there when it comes to online invites with any real aesthetics.

So if you’re a procrastinator and haven’t yet sent out that invite for your holiday party — or are scoping invitations for your next dinner party or whatnot — save some trees and design a custom evite with Paperless Post. It’s free to join, and you only pay for the invitations you send. The prices are incredibly reasonable, too: You get 25 free “stamps” when you sign up (each stamp is good for one invite), and 100 stamps thereafter will set you back a whopping 8 bucks.

–Jennifer Grayson

Do this now: While you’re at it, do you really need to mail holiday greeting cards this year, just so people can take one look at your signature and then toss the card in the trash? Send an online holiday card via Paperless Post instead, and help save 2.5 million trees a year.

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