Love Envelope and Greenvelope, compared.
The closest thing to a like for like comparison on this page. Both are proper wedding invitations sent digitally. The difference is that one of them prices the guest list.
Greenvelope is the grown up end of digital invitations. It takes weddings seriously, the designs are restrained rather than novelty, and the guest management around them is thorough: lists, groups, tracking, reminders, and stationery that matches from the save the date through to the thank you.
It is priced by the size of your wedding. Their own figures put a single mailing to twenty guests at $19, a hundred at $99 and two hundred and fifty at $249, rising in steps of twenty, with an annual membership from $125 for couples sending more than once. That is a completely coherent way to price a service and it is worth understanding rather than resenting: they carry the sending, so the sending is what they charge for.
Love Envelope does not send anything on your behalf as the main event. It makes one invitation, at one address, and hands it to you. You send it, or someone sends it for you, or you print the address on a card. Because there is nothing metered, the number of people you invite has no effect on the price at all.
Side by side.
Two digital wedding invitations that make almost opposite decisions about what to charge for.
What you pay
Love Envelope$100 once, whatever size the wedding is, and it never comes back.
Greenvelope$19 for up to 20 guests, $99 for up to 100, $249 for up to 250, per mailing.
Cost per guest
Love EnvelopeNothing, and no cap either. The link does not know how many people opened it.
GreenvelopeIn steps. Crossing a tier is the thing that costs, so 101 guests is priced differently from 99.
How guests receive it
Love EnvelopeOne link, sent however you like. Nothing is metered and nothing is queued.
GreenvelopeSent by them, by email and text, to the list you have built.
Guest list tools
Love EnvelopeA guest list built from the replies, plus a sending panel for the first few dozen addresses.
GreenvelopeExtensive. Groups, households, tracking, reminders, the lot.
Matching stationery
Love EnvelopeOne invitation, done properly. No save the date or thank you card as separate products.
GreenvelopeA whole suite, matched, from save the date through to thank you.
Design control
Love EnvelopeComposition, palette, typeface and paper are four separate choices, mixed freely.
GreenvelopeA designed template, customised within it.
What free gets you
Love EnvelopeThe whole builder, plus 24 hours live before anything is paid.
GreenvelopeA real invitation, sent to up to 10 people, with no card asked for.
Advertising
Love EnvelopeNone, ever.
GreenvelopeNone either, at any price, and they say so plainly. It is one of the better things about them.
Their public pricing was last read on August 22, 2026. Prices move, and theirs is the page that decides what you pay them, so check it before you decide anything.
What Greenvelope does better.
Guest management, and it is not close. If you want one place holding every address, grouped by household and by side, tracking who has been sent what, chasing the ones who have not answered and carrying the same design across a save the date, an invitation, a change of plan and a thank you card, that is a real product and Greenvelope is a good one. It also handles the delivery itself, which matters if you would rather hand over a spreadsheet than send anything yourself. If your wedding is being run out of a to do list, this is the one that fits into it.
Where the difference actually shows.
Four places where pricing the list and not pricing the list stop being the same product.
The two hundred guest wedding
This is where the models separate hardest. A long list is exactly the wedding that benefits most from a link, because a link is the only thing on earth that costs the same to give to two hundred people as to twelve.
Forwarding
Invitations get forwarded. A cousin sends it to an aunt, a bridesmaid sends it to the group. On a link that is free and welcome. On a metered service it is either impossible or it is somebody receiving an invitation the system does not know about.
What you are actually buying
Greenvelope sells sending and management. This sells one invitation that happens to live at an address. If a spreadsheet of two hundred addresses already exists and somebody is maintaining it, their product is aimed at you. If it does not exist and you do not want to build one, ours is.
Changing your mind in March
A venue moves, a time shifts, a road closes. Editing a link updates it for everybody who already has it, including the people who opened it in January. Anything already delivered has to be sent again.
Which of the two to use.
This one genuinely comes down to how you are running the wedding.
You want the invitation to be beautiful and the price to be one number, the list is long or still moving, and you are happy to send the link yourself in the places you already talk to people.
You want one system holding every address and every send, matching stationery across the whole run of it, and you would rather pay by the size of the wedding than manage the sending yourself.
Worth reading either way.
Guides on wording, timing and replies that apply whichever of the two you end up using.
- Invitation wording when parents are hostingThe host line is the first sentence of an invitation and the one that causes the most family conversation. Every version of it, including the awkward ones.6 min read
- Anniversary party invitation wordingWording for a fortieth, a sixtieth, one thrown by the children, and a quiet one for two. Including the line that gets the older guests to reply.5 min read
- Sending your invitation in two languagesFor families who do not share one. What to translate, what to leave alone, and why one invitation works better than two.5 min read
- Adults only wording that nobody takes badlyHow to say no children without sounding cold, where to put the line, and what to do about the guest who asks anyway.5 min read
- Vow renewal invitation wordingYou are not getting married, you are saying it again on purpose. Wording for ten years, twenty five, and the ones that follow something hard.5 min read
- Reception only invitation wordingInviting somebody to the party and not the ceremony, without it reading as a second tier. The wordings that work and the ones that sting.5 min read
$100, once.
One payment for one invitation, and the link stays online permanently with the replies behind it.
Asked and answered.
What people ask when the two are on the same shortlist, which they usually are.
Both are formal by intent. Neither is doing novelty. The difference is in how you arrive at the look: theirs is a designed template you customise, ours is four separate choices, composition, colour, typeface and paper, which you combine yourself.
At a hundred guests the two are within a dollar of each other, at $99 against $100, which is a genuinely fair fight. Under that they are cheaper. Above it they keep going and we stop, and theirs is priced per mailing where ours covers the invitation permanently.
Yes. Every reply lands on a private page of your own, with the head count, everybody named, dietary notes and who has opened the invitation without answering yet. What is not here is a full address book with households and groups in it.
Yes, for the first stretch of the list, and the message a guest receives is the invitation itself in their theme rather than a notification with a link inside it. Beyond that the link is yours to send however you want, at no cost.
Tell us if any of this is wrong.
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Spotted something out of date about Greenvelope?
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Other comparisons
The rest of the field, one page each.
- Paperless PostDigital invitations, paid for in coins and spent per recipient.
- EviteFree party invitations supported by advertising, with paid tiers to remove it.
- ZolaA whole wedding planning suite, with a free website and a registry at the centre of it.
- JoyA free wedding website, guest app and digital invitations, funded by paper and the registry.
- The KnotA wedding marketplace and planning suite, with a free website inside it.
- MintedA print shop with a designer marketplace, and a free website alongside it.
- Appy CoupleA wedding website and native guest app, charged by the year or the month.
- PunchbowlSubscription online invitations and cards, aimed at parties rather than weddings.
- CanvaA design tool. It makes a picture of an invitation and leaves the sending to you.