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Thanks, Boone. Is there a way of combining these options — maybe offering people a choice between 1. As the last step, creating the group and inviting new members (which would load the invitation overlay and perhaps send people back to the group homepage afterwards, or 2. As the last step, create the group and send invitations later?

1. As the last step, creating the group and inviting new members (which would load the invitation overlay and perhaps send people back to the group homepage afterwards

This sounds like my suggestion 3. Nothing's impossible, but it would be hard technically and, I think, from a design point of view, to conceive and build this. Or maybe I'm misunderstanding what you're suggesting.

It's similar to your third proposal, though it would allow people to skip sending invites. I am imagining two buttons, that when clicked, would do the following

(x)                                                                        (x)
button 1                                                               button 2
"Create group and send invites"                       "Create group and skip sending invites" 
action: would launch invitation process            action: would complete group process and take user to group home page

Does that make sense?

I guess so - The way I'd build it is probably that both buttons would send the user to the group home - ie out of the group creation process, from a technical point of view - but the difference is that the first would launch the invitation process after group creation. So, essentially, invitations would no longer be part of group creation process conceptually; instead, the options would be "finish and send invitations" or "just finish".

that sounds great to me.

Looks great! Thank you, Boone!!!