Post # 1
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Bumble bee
- Wedding: September 2010 - Heron Hill Winery
Over the holiday I went about the task of collecting addresses in a somewhat non-traditional way. For me it was the easiest way I could think of…I used facebook and send out a mass message to my friends and family requesting addresses. Yes, I could have called them all, but that would have taken all day. I could have used e-mail, but I don’t have all updated e-mails. I am pretty pleased with the number of responses I have gotten back so far and think it was a fairly successful method. I think of the 50 requests sent out I have gotten 40 back, which isn’t too shabby. I know it might be tacky to some, but it’s not like I am sending out Save-The-Date Cards that way. The only downside is when people replied back some hit reply all and sent their address to all the recpients…I quickly sent out another message letting people know to send me a personal message so they wouldn’t be sending their addresses to people they may not know.
Post # 3
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Sugar bee
I used Facebook, regular email, text messages, phone calls, carrier pigeon, smoke signals, saddle donkeys…. anything I could think of.
Post # 4
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Sugar bee
yup, I used FB and emails to get addresses from friends. For family, I had my mom and Future Mother-In-Law collect them by phone if they didn’t have them already.
Post # 5
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Bumble bee
- Wedding: September 2010 - Heron Hill Winery
hahah!!I will prob end up having to do phone calls and texts too!
Post # 6
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Busy bee
- Wedding: April 2011 - The Tribute Golf Club
I haven’t started the address collecting yet (well except for those that I keep updated for the annual Christmas card), but I went to 3 or 4 weddings in the past year in which I supplied my address to the bride via facebook. It seemed like a fast way to get it done.
Post # 7
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Bumble bee
I’ve used FB too. My 75-year-old uncle is on there and he just got re-married. I had to get not only his new address, but his wife’s name too. I knew her first name, but I figured at 75 she might keep her own last name, of which I didn’t know at all.
I also asked FI’s cousins and aunts/uncles for updated addresses at Christmas. Several have moved to FL this year and I didn’t know the last names of a few of the cousin’s FIs or long term boyfriends.
Nothin wrong with that!
Post # 8
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Busy bee
I used FB, email, asked family member who recently got married for their address lists of our family, saved the envelopes of Christmas cards we received for the return address…lol. pretty much any means possible!
Post # 9
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Busy bee
I used Google Documents and made a form that was emailed out to family & friends. It’s great because once people submit the form all of the data is added to an excel spreadsheet. I think one of the Bees posted a how-to awhile back.
Post # 10
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Busy bee
I used fb, and also whitepages.com… Mother-In-Law had this enormous, ridiculous guest list, and only had addresses for half of them, and got so overwhelmed by the task of collecting addresses (she doesn’t do computers at all, so she would have had to call everyone), that I just went to whitepages.com and did as much as I could, to cut down the number of people she’d have to call.
For older people, I found whitepages was pretty helpful; for 20somethings, it was not very useful because we tend to move around more, and many of us are more savvy about keeping our information off the internet. But if anyone needs to track down great-uncle so-and-so, I highly recommend it.
Post # 11
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Bumble bee
@BlueButterfly, GREAT idea! You are so helpful. I’m doing the fb thing on my lunch break!
Post # 12
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Bumble bee
- Wedding: September 2010 - Heron Hill Winery
The fun part is transferring it all into excel afterwards…at least it’s easier to cut and paste than read from handwritten addresses.
Post # 13
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Buzzing bee
I used Facebook and mass text messages to collect. I also use The Knot to manage all of my contacts in their “guestlist” function.
Post # 14
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Sugar bee
Yes I used facebook and it was such an effective way!! The rest I have gotten through my parents! Some of the people on facebook even gave me other aunts/uncles addresses that werent on facebook! It was extremely helpful!
Post # 15
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Honey bee
Oh I’ll definitely be using Facebook. Not only for addresses, but to know the correct names of people’s girlfriends/boyfriends/wives/husbands/etc. I have a huge family and I can never keep SO’s names straight in my head! LoL
Post # 16
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Buzzing bee
i used facebook, email and for older folks phone calls 🙂
