Rehearsal Dinner E-Invitation

By the time I got around to the rehearsal dinner invitation, money was running out in the budget! To save a little on time, printing, and postage, I emailed everyone this invitation. I figured that everyone I was inviting (just close family + wedding party) already knew about the rehearsal dinner, so it wasn't too rude not to send them a nice paper invitation.

I put a link over the restaurant info to the restaurant website (so people could get directions), and a link over the RSVP info to my email address. I split up the invitation image into three images, so I could have different links over different areas. The hardest part about emailing the invitation was creating links on the invitation image in GMail.

In GMail, if you insert an image and make it a link, you get this ugly blue border around the image and you cannot get rid of it.


To get the email to look exactly the way you want it, you can use an online HTML editor like Online-HTML-Editor.org and then copy and paste into GMail. First upload the invitation images somewhere, so you have a permanent URL to them. This could be your wedding website or a photo sharing site like Flickr.

Use the HTML editor to add the images into your page and put links on them. There should be "Add Image" and "Add Link" buttons like these.


Select and copy the entire edit box in the HTML editor.


In GMail, paste into a new email.


Make sure to send a test email to yourself to test the links and formatting. Then send your email invitation to all your guests!