- One link goes to a group, a broadcast or a single chat — everyone opens the same live page.
- Change the time after sending and every guest sees the new one; a picture would need re-sending.
- Replies come back to you with party size and dietary notes, so you are not counting thumbs-ups.
- Copy-and-paste wording below, formal and relaxed, in your own language.
One link, the whole guest list
Your invitation is an ordinary web address. Paste it into a WhatsApp group and two hundred people open the same page; paste it into one chat and your grandmother opens exactly the same thing. There is no per-guest file to prepare, nothing to attach and nothing to compress.
For a long list, a broadcast list beats a group: everyone gets the message individually, nobody sees the other numbers, and no one can reply to all four hundred people by accident. The link behaves identically either way.
Why a link beats a picture
A picture is frozen the moment you send it. If the ceremony moves half an hour, or the venue changes, or you spot a misspelled surname, the only fix is to send everything again and hope people notice the second one. A link is edited once and every guest who opens it — including the ones who opened it last week — sees the corrected version.
The bigger difference is what comes back. An image gives you a scroll of thumbs-ups and "we'll try" messages to count by hand. The invitation page asks the actual questions: are you coming, how many of you, is there anything you do not eat. The answers arrive as a list you can read at a glance, and the number is always right.
What to write in the message
Keep it short. The page carries the detail, so the message only has to make someone tap. Three that work:
Formal — "Dear all, we would be delighted to have you with us. Everything you need is on our invitation page, including how to reply: [your link]"
Warm — "We're getting married! 🤍 Date, place and how to let us know you're coming are all here: [your link]"
Short — "Our invitation, and the RSVP, in one place: [your link]"
One thing worth adding at the end: a reply deadline. "Could you let us know by 1 May?" doubles the number of people who answer in the first week.
The guests who are not on WhatsApp
Every invitation also comes with a print-ready QR code. Put it on a card for the relatives who prefer paper, and it opens the same page, with the same reply form, counted in the same list.
That printed code keeps working for good. If you later change the invitation's PIN or reset the link, the QR still resolves — a card that has already been posted can never go dead.
and know who is coming.
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