When customers buy a Crane invitation through Paperless Post, they can also get a digital copy to send to people online.
Georgette Mosbacher, CEO of the Borghese cosmetics company and a celebrated society hostess who has issued many a coveted invitation for cocktails at her Fifth Avenue apartment, has a slightly different take.
Shortly after that send them a LinkedIn invitation, so that you can stay in touch and follow up at a later date.
Ms. Heller, 36, is CEO of the invitation-only social network, which began nine years ago as a site where fancy people could trade tips on art openings in London or samba nights in Reykjavik. ("Facebook for the few, " as Ms. Heller put it with a sigh.) An invitation to A Small World was once highly coveted, but the site's social currency has waned in the Twitter age.
Few ministers see the need (or have the determination) to reject such a seductive invitation.
With the company's Ugift program, account owners can send friends and family a digital invitation to contribute.
No decision will be taken on a response to the invitation until a council meeting next week.
Mr Davies said he met a stranger as he strolled in south London and accepted a dinner invitation.
She greatly wished to participate, but as a volunteer accepting an invitation from a nonprofit group there was no money available.
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Typically, the chief executives of big-IPO companies show up to ring the opening bell, a publicity stunt, but a coveted invitation nonetheless.
Wantful then sends an artfully-designed small booklet wrapped in Japanese-style rice paper in the mail, which looks almost like a wedding invitation.
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The lemon square turns into acceptance of a dinner invitation and next thing you know, your business relationship is compromised by your personal relationship.
Two-time Masters champion Jose Maria Olazabal, who accepted a late invitation, had four birdies and three bogeys in his 70 to be tied for 52nd.
Big-ticket items will likely be a coveted invitation to the network's annual Video Music Awards or an invitation to an inaugural ball next January in Washington.
At the end of January Generali invited Yad Vashem, Israel's Holocaust authority, to inspect its warehouse, but a similar invitation, extended in 1995, was never honoured.
Four-time major winner Mickelson got a late invitation to compete in the European Tour event to complete final preparations for Royal Lytham and St Annes next week.
Such a formal invitation to foreign workers has not been known since the first Turks, then and still needed, but now so often unwelcome, arrived in the 1960s.
Thailand's standoff between red shirts and yellow shirts and all who feed that fight from the sidelines, coming especially at this time, is not a compelling invitation for business.
Today, Entertainment and Film Service Voddler (www.voddler.com) already has more than 600, 000 registered users, but up until now a personal invitation or "invite" was necessary to gain access to the service.
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At 6 a.m. the next morning Carey, shaving and still in his robe, answered a knock at his hotel room and was handed an envelope he assumed was a party invitation.
In Ecuador, Correa said at the time that his country had not made a formal invitation to Assange and that the ministry declaration, made by Deputy Foreign Minister Kintto Lucas, was "spontaneous" and personal in nature.
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For small investors it will be either a great level-the-playing-field opportunity to get in on the ground floor of promising startups or a federally sanctioned invitation to fraud on a scale not seen since the boiler-room days.
There were four of us: working press from all over the globe suddenly possessing the wide-eyed stare of excited children, with a glorious invitation to the pristine fairways of Augusta National -- living out our fantasies of actually playing the course.
"Getting more women involved in leadership positions is something we need to work much harder at, " he told his guests when asked why a U.S. citizen had been honored with a personal invitation to launch her book from the very heart of the British government.
"You need to find some level of common ground or you're going to be talking in circles, which can easily spiral into much worse scenarios, such as legal action, " says Scott Gerber, founder of the Young Entrepreneur Council, a national invitation-only network of entrepreneurs under the age of 35.
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Kenny added that there's a standing invitation for the president and first lady Michelle Obama to visit Ireland, even if Obama's schedule precludes him from stopping there as part of his trip to the upcoming G8 meeting of leading industrial nations, which is scheduled for June in neighboring Northern Ireland.
Last week I received a somewhat last-minute invitation by a company named Ener1 to attend a U.S.-China Advanced Technology Vehicle Summit in Indianapolis, Indiana.
The landmark move marks the first time in five decades that Cubans will be able to travel outside their country without a tourist visa or an invitation from a resident in their destination country.
This is a generation that rarely sees an invitation in a non-electronic format, always knows the phone number that is calling them before they pick up the line, and is so virtual that spending the morning at a local Starbucks with an iPad is just like being at the office.
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