Digital invitations
for every celebration.

A digital invitation is not a picture of a card sent as an attachment. It is a page on the web with its own address: the date, the time, the place with a map, the dress code, the programme of the day, and a reply form that writes straight into your guest list. The address travels as a link or as a QR code, and a guest who opens it sees the invitation in the language their phone is set to, on whatever screen they have. Nothing to download, no account, no app.

That difference is the whole point. A picture cannot tell you who has seen it, cannot collect a reply, cannot be corrected once it is sent, and cannot show a guest in Lisbon the same page in Portuguese that a guest in Berlin reads in German. A page can, and because the page and the guest list are one system, the reply lands where the seating plan, the menu and the caterer's export already read from.

The rules are older than the web. Say who is inviting, what for, when, where, and how to answer. Everything else is tone and design. The details below are what guests come back to the page for, so put them where they can be found in one scroll.

Most invitations today go out over WhatsApp, because that is where the family group already lives. A link pasted into the group opens the invitation for everyone at once, and a link sent one-to-one carries a personal note. E-mail works for colleagues and for older guests, and it keeps a record. The printed card is not gone; it now carries a QR code that opens the same page, so the keepsake and the reply form are one invitation.

Whichever route you take, the page is the same, and the reply is counted in the same place. A guest who received the card and one who received the link answer the same form, and the host sees one list.

The reply form asks what you set it to ask: coming or not, how many people and their names, dietary needs, a menu choice from your own menu if you turn that on, whether they need a room, and for an event with several parts, which parts they will attend. Each answer lands in the guest list the moment it is sent, the guest gets a confirmation in their language with a calendar file, and a guest who changes their mind edits the same reply rather than sending a second message.

You set a reply-by date and the form closes itself when it passes; you set a capacity and the form stops taking yeses when it is reached; you can add a PIN when the link should not be public. The full guide to replies, wording and deadlines is a page of its own.

A wedding in Europe rarely has guests who all read the same language. The invitation page appears in the language the guest's browser is set to, across English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese and Turkish, and the reply form, the confirmation e-mail and the calendar file follow. You write the invitation once, in your own words; the interface around it, the buttons, the labels and the dates, change with the reader.

The ten event types above are not decoration. The type you pick decides which four themes you choose from, whether the page leads with the hosts' names or with the event's title (weddings and engagements lead with the names), and the accent colour of the guest portal. What the reply form asks for is yours to set on any type: attendance, party size and names, dietary needs, a menu choice, accommodation and the parts of the day, each switched on or off in a minute. A wedding usually turns most of them on; a corporate keynote wants a reply-by date and a capacity more than a menu; a baby shower wants one reply from a household rather than a party.