Evites With Google Groups Address

[krahema]

Has anyone sent evites from their PWS to a "Google Groups" e-mail address? One of my hosts gave me a Google Groups e-mail address that was set up for about 40 families at her school. She said it would be a lot easier to just use this, versus adding each individual e-mail address.

But, I'm wondering if it will be a problem that I won't be entering each person's name (does that show up on the e-vite that is delivered to each person's inbox?). Also, will it cause problems that we will then be getting a whole bunch of RSVP's under just one e-mail address?

I'm thinking we probably need to set up each individual e-mail.

Thanks!
Margaret

 

[NooraK]

The RSVPs wouldn't work. It would register the first person's RSVP but not the future ones. That would only matter depending on how much you care about using the RSVPs on your PWS accurately.

That being said, I don't think it's going to work the way the host thinks it is. The group is probably set up for a particular purpose, and I personally would be annoyed if I was a part of such a group and received something like a Pampered Chef invitation through it (unless that was the general purpose). The reason she can't give you email addresses, is because usually the purpose of the group is to be able to communicate via email without having to share email addresses with everyone.

Even if you choose to send the invitation via this group, the host needs to make sure she personally invites everyone. This type of a message is even more impersonal than a regular e-invitation, and very easily ignored. I had a host with a similar list type guest list. She just emailed them, even though I told her she needed to personally invite them, and very few people came to the party.

 

[krahema]

Thank you Noora! That was very insightful I agree that people might be annoyed that we used that group for this purpose. I will go back to my host & ask for individual e-mail addresses and stress the point that she needs to still have some sort of individual contact with each invitee.

Thank you!