noooo, evites! Paper/card ones are so much nicer and poeple can keep them and stick them up on their fridges etc. We did our with Vistaprint, got a personalised design and I don't think it cost us more than £35 - They often have sales

I did e-save the dates with paperlesspost.com, which was pretty cheap (you can do free with limited options) and I really liked it because you can collect people's mailing addresses through the system.
But we're going with paper invites...I actually just designed mine yesterday on mixbook.com...you get to personalize every detail. I spent way too long playing around with it but I looove what I came up with. They're not too expensive and they have a coupon code up now. I'm going to hold off on ordering though since we still have quite a lot of time, and I'm sure another coupon code will come up in the meantime. We're going to have people RSVP via our wedding website (theknot) or email, so we save money on the rsvp cards/envelopes/postage and I always prefer when people request online responses since it's so convenient (so hopefully my guests agree...not many older people, so I think we're good).

Yep, it's really easy to create the page on theknot. Very customizable with as much or as little as you want. You can lock it so you have to provide the link to your guests plus PIN so that strangers can't find it.

Where did you get the tea towels made? What a great idea! I want to use it for future parties! My sister threw me a high tea sort of bridal shower and this would have been so cool.

I got my Mock up invitation kit and color swatches and we've basically picked our blue colors and I'll check in with my MOH for some final decisions since she is a graphic designer and will be doing the graphics for these
So exciting!!

I also don't think I need all the components I was originally thinking, since I'm on a very simplistic mindset--casual/rustic and simple. Along with the graphics and wording we'll add basic embellishments like twine and... this is fun stuff!

I forgot to post, that I got the parts of our invitations and picked them up on our way back from the cruise.
The wording for the invites, 2 inserts (reception and other information) and RSVPs is done and delieverd to the MOH.
Now just waiting for the final design results.
Asked her to have a couple done by the end of March, so that we could decide and then get them printed.
I want to start putting them together by Mid to Late April so that I can get the initial 160 mailed by Mid-May.
Since we live in Alaska and many would be traveling I wanted to mail out invites at the 4 month mark rather than 3...
Exciting stuff!

I have all the pieces for my invitations!!! Will probably do some assembling this Saturday! EXCITING!!! had to share! I'll post a pic soon!