I detest Facebook groups and mass emails that request, "If you want an invitation, send us your address!" It's so incredibly impersonal. It seems to me that if if a person doesn't already have my address or can't put in a little work to obtaining my address than that person is asking for me to volunteer presents more than requesting my presence.
Enter my own wedding planning. I put my size-10 foot down and said, "There will be no mass email and no Facebook group!" Yes, one can communicate via email - be it genuine or computer-generated personalization. Yes, one can communicate via Facebook - but not through groups. There will be no Facebook group. The end.
You know what I've found? It takes a bit of time, yet it's ridiculously easy to find people's addresses. My own address book, student and alumni databases, the ward directory, and even an old-fashioned Google search has yielded most of the addresses I desire. Wm has found great success in harvesting addresses from the very same Facebook groups that I so despise; such groups publish the addresses publicly and often have a link on the person's profile "Jim Bob and Jane Doe's Wedding." When a person has been successful in protecting their address? A quick email or a cell phone call. I only had to directly request addresses from one tenth of my list.
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