YOU'RE INVITED! (to share your green ideas about invitations)

This post is all about invitations. To make mine green, I made a piece of artwork that was relevant to my Torah portion and scanned it, added the text and sent it to our friends and family as a PDF attachment to an email. In the email we gave all the details about hotel reservations and the weekend schedule.

I understand that the idea of an emailed invitation could be viewed as impersonal or even a rude way of addressing people, but we made it special by using original artwork and explained the green reasons behind it. In the end, people seemed to really like it. We saved some money on stamps and another upside was instant RSVPs!!

Please post your thoughts and feelings on whether it is or is not acceptable to use electronic invitations and why. Also if you have other ideas for green invitations, please share them.

GQ

Creative gifts:

Hello again, green peoples!
This blog is about creatively green gifts!
Some people have thought of giving a re-gift, or something that they had of value that they thought I could put to use!(books are a very good and popular one!)
And my family friend Hunter Levinson sewed me a drawstring bag and put the gift indside (part of what was inside was a string-bound notebook made of recycled printed/marbled paper).

Please comment and share if you have ever received a green gift or one that was just greenly wrapped!

Thanks!
The Green Queen

P.S. There has been some talk of making "My Green Bat Mitzvah" it's own website, and yea, we are looking into branching out, so to speak, and making it more personal and unique.
:)

Newest dose of publicity:

Hey everyone!
I wanted to tell you that the story of my bat mitzvah was featured in the Independent. The title was "A Bat Mitzvah Fished from the Recycling Bin".
I hope that you locals had the chance to read it!
And I hope you all had nice breaks and a happy New Years!

-The GQ