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Evite SmackTalk (Or, How I fell in love with Pingg)

I recently had to create an online invitation for my daughter's birthday party. I automatically logged in to evite.com (as you do) and started perusing the designs. Is it just me, or have things become a lot more limited there these days? Anywhoodle. I wasn't having any luck finding a design anywhere close to what I wanted and it occured to me, there HAS to be other options out there!

I've been using evite.com since probably pretty close to it's inception in 1998, when there was little to no competition. Until recently, there has really been no reason to look anywhere else. Evite gets the job done. If you're a prior user, your previous guests addresses are saved. The invitations get sent. The responses get tracked. Reminders get sent. But gosh darn if the interwebs hasn't gone and changed an awful lot in the past 5 years and there are some up and coming invitation services that have some great features that Evite doesn't. This is an article from 2009 (kisses, CNET!) which I used as a launchpad to find the new invitation service I'm totally in love with, Pingg.com.

 

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