I’ve been using evite for the past couple of Jo-Lo’s past birthday invitations. The one thing I like about using such online services is that it helps you keep track of who confirmed, who’s not going to make it, and who’s coming along with others. Really huge time-saver as well if you need to remind the invitees about the party or things to bring… you don’t need to sort through the confirmed and declined email addresses.

Plus there’s the added benefit of being environment-friendly. Paperless invites!

However when I was trying to use evite again for Jo-Lo’s recently-concluded 5th birthday party, I noticed that evite was no longer as enticing to use as before. There’s just too much clutter and even the sent invitation does not look as appealing as before. And so for this round of invitations I used MyInvites. It served the purpose, although I missed the evite functionality of guests being able to say how many of them are coming so instead my wife and I made mental notes of how many they are in the family and made allowances accordingly (it just feels awkward to phone the guests and ask how many are coming).

I was supposed to go to a discussion of the merits of using myinvites versus evite, but as I looked around for more options I found another highly probable online invitation service: Socializr. And the fact that Socializr was founded by Jonathan Abrams of Friendster fame puts some weight on the possibilities for this service.

I do not have anything yet on my calendar though to warrant a test of Socializr. Perhaps you will have the opportunity to try out this service for one of your events. Let me know how it goes!