Best online wedding invitations
Online wedding invitations and digital wedding invitations are the same thing under two names: an invitation that arrives as a link and opens on your guest's phone, usually with RSVP on the same page. So the table above is also our list of the best online wedding invitations, checked on 15 September 2026, and the verdicts do not change: Wedvite for one flat price with unlimited guests, Paperless Post or Bliss & Bone if you pay per guest, Joy if it has to be free. Zola and The Knot sell no digital invitation, only a free website and save the dates, so read the RSVP and price columns before you choose. Marrying in Australia or Canada? The Australian round-up quotes prices in Australian dollars and the Canadian round-up in Canadian dollars.
Wedvite: best for one flat price with unlimited guests
Pick Wedvite if your guest list is still moving and you want one link that does everything. The price is $89 flat, paid once, for unlimited guests, with RSVP and a guest-messages dashboard included. Guests open an animated envelope, hear background music, see the venue map and reply on the same page; you send the link by WhatsApp, text or email and can edit after sending without re-sending. Design is free, you can share with your first 10 guests before paying, and the invitation stays hosted through your wedding date and at least 90 days after. For 100 guests the cost is $89. Where it loses: there is no custom domain, the wedding website is the invitation page itself rather than a multi-page planning site, and Joy, Zola and The Knot give a fuller website away free. See Wedvite pricing for the add-ons.
Greenvelope: best for an animated envelope on a per-mailing price
Pick Greenvelope for the classic animated envelope with a liner, stamp and music on every design, including your own artwork, and delivery by email, SMS in supported countries, WhatsApp, Messenger or link. Pricing is one flat fee per mailing set by guest-list size: 100 guests costs $99 (flat, one mailing), and a 101st guest moves you up a tier. No coins, and no subscription is required: Greenvelope also sells optional annual memberships from $60 to $4,235 a yearfor unlimited mailings, but a single mailing needs none. Where it loses: there is no wedding-website builder (Greenvelope's own comparison lists it as not offered), no custom domain for senders, and free mode stops at 10 recipients. If you want a flat price that does not move with the guest count, compare it with Wedvite on our Greenvelope alternatives page. Or read the head-to-head Greenvelope vs Paperless Post.
Paperless Post: best for design choice if you pay per guest
Pick Paperless Post if design range matters most and you are happy to pay per recipient. It charges Coins per guest across four feature sets; the envelope, liner and stamp animation is a paid element at Premium and above, so a free Paperless Post invite is a plain card. For 100 guests the sheet gives ≤ $105 Premium (≤ $50 Basic, ≤ $144 All Access) — upper bounds, not a checkout total, because the pricing page only demonstrates rates at 50 guests and says the per-guest price falls as the list grows. Delivery is email, text in the US and Canada, and a shareable link; sending by WhatsApp is not yet available. Where it loses: no standalone wedding website (the event page is built from blocks), the cost scales with the guest list, and the free sends are capped at the first 50. Our Paperless Post alternatives page has the flat-price comparison.
Joy: best for a free website with free digital cards
Pick Joy if you want the most for free. The core product costs nothing: wedding website, planning dashboard, registry, mobile app, unlimited guests, online RSVP and free Basic Digital cards sent by email or link. For 100 guests the cost is Free ($0 via free Basic Digital cards + free website). Where it loses: the free card has no envelope at all; envelope colour and a reveal animation exist only on paid Premium Digital cards, which Joy does not price publicly and which carry a 50-card minimum. Joy-sent SMS is a paid add-on limited to US and Canada numbers, and WhatsApp means pasting the link yourself. A custom domain is forwarding-only, so the withjoy.com address stays in the browser bar. Joy makes its money on registry purchases, which is why the website is free.
Zola: best for a free website when you will print the invitations
Pick Zola if you want a free website and free digital save the dates and you plan to print the invitations themselves. Zola does not sell a digital wedding invitation at all; its help centre says so, and it steers couples to customise a digital save the date instead. The website, RSVP and the free save-the-date designs cost nothing, shared by link, text, email or DM. For 100 guests the sheet gives Free digitally (no digital invitation sold) — paper from $184.99. Where it loses: there is no animated envelope anywhere (the only animation is a toggle on a save-the-date draft), the custom domain is forwarding-only, and premium guest texting is an unpriced in-app purchase. If you want a real digital invitation and a website together, Joy or Minted cover both.
The Knot: best for free save the dates with a free website
Pick The Knot for a free website with free RSVP, guest list and Messaging Hub, plus free digital save-the-date designs shared by text, email or QR code. There is no subscription, tier or trial. For 100 guests the sheet gives Free digitally (website + digital save the date); $199 paper list / $139 with WED30. Where it loses: The Knot states outright that it does not offer digital invitations; the free digital product is a save the date only, and the invitations catalogue is printed paper sold per piece. There is no animated envelope, and the custom domain is a paid add-on. If your plan is paper invitations plus a free planning site, The Knot and Zola are the two to compare; if you want the invitation itself online, choose another row. What a one-page site covers is on our wedding website page, and our best wedding websites with RSVP round-up compares the website side.
Evite: best for a free casual invitation if ads do not bother you
Pick Evite for a casual, free invitation to a large list, as long as you accept ads on the free designs. Free invitations support up to 750 guests with real-time RSVP tracking. Premium packages are flat one-off fees chosen by guest cap, and because 100 guests exceeds the Platinum cap of 75, the cost for 100 guests is $99.99 (Diamond) — or $0 on a free design with ads. Envelopes with colour, stamp and liner and the animated reveal are strictly Premium. Delivery is email, SMS to US and Canada numbers, and a shareable link that covers WhatsApp, though link guests only appear on the guest list once they RSVP. Where it loses: no wedding-website product, no custom domain, ads on the free tier, and packages are non-transferable with no pay-the-difference upgrade.
Bliss & Bone: best for a low per-recipient price with the RSVP dashboard included
Pick Bliss & Bone for a low per-recipient price and a thorough RSVP: every invitation collects responses, guest counts, meal preferences, dietary notes and custom questions in a live dashboard. Invitations are a one-time charge on a three-tier volume ladder: $0.90 per recipient at 100, cheaper than Paperless Post's $1.05 USDPremium rate (Paperless Post's Basic tier is $0.50 USD but ships no envelope), so 100 guests costs $90 (100 × $0.90) for the invitation send, plus $15–$21/mo if you also want the website. Design and preview are free until you send. Delivery is email and a WhatsApp link worldwide, with platform SMS limited to the US (its own copy conflicts on Canada). Where it loses: there is no envelope animation (the online card is a single flat card), the wedding website is a separate monthly subscription, and the free tier is design-only. If you want the envelope and one price for everything, compare Greenvelope or Wedvite.
Minted: best for a free invitation with a matching free website
Pick Minted if you want a free online invitation with a matching free website and do not need texting. The free Online Invitation designs collect RSVPs with unlimited custom questions, and the free wedding website includes RSVPs, registry, maps, a wedding party page and guest accommodations. For 100 guests the cost is Free ($0), read as nothing Minted publishes charges for it rather than a verified price-list zero. Where it loses: there is no envelope animation (the guest-facing card is a static single page), and delivery is email or a copyable link only, with no SMS or WhatsApp channel anywhere in the help centre. The custom URL and the original-artwork website are the paid upsells.
Canva: best for designing the card yourself
Pick Canva if you want to design the card yourself and handle sending on your own. Canva is a design tool with wedding invitation templates, not an invitation service: you build the image or PDF and share the file or link. The plans were read in a browser on 15 September 2026 and priced in euros; US-dollar prices were not verified. For 100 guests the cost is Free on the Free plan (you design and share the file yourself). Where it loses: the pricing page names no RSVP tracking, guest list, envelope animation or delivery feature, so every one of those cells on this page stays “not verified on 15 September 2026” rather than guessed. Pair a Canva design with a free RSVP tool, or pick a platform that includes replies.
Which digital wedding invitation platform is cheapest for 100 guests?
Ranked from the 100-guest figures checked 15 September 2026. Free rows first: the five platforms whose published figure for a digital send to 100 guests is nothing. Then the paid rows, ranked on the cheapest tier that includes the animated envelope where the platform sells one: Evite sits here on its Diamond package, with the free-with-ads design as the alternative shown in its row, and Paperless Post on its Premium upper bound, with the cheaper no-envelope Basic figure shown in its row. Bliss & Bone sells no envelope, so its invitation figure is used as is. No row here is a guess: where a platform publishes no 100-guest total (Paperless Post) or no price at all (Minted), the row says so, and Canva's figure was read in euros. For paper costs too, see the cost of wedding invitations.
- Joy — Free ($0 via free Basic Digital cards + free website)
- Minted — Free ($0)
- Canva — Free on the Free plan (you design and share the file yourself); no RSVP or delivery included
- The Knot — Free digitally (website + digital save the date); $199 paper list / $139 with WED30; save the date only, no digital invitation
- Zola — Free digitally (no digital invitation sold) — paper from $184.99
- Wedvite — $89, flat, RSVP and envelope included
- Bliss & Bone — $90 (100 × $0.90) for the invitation send, plus $15–$21/mo if you also want the website
- Greenvelope — $99 (flat, one mailing)
- Evite — $99.99 (Diamond) — or $0 on a free design with ads
- Paperless Post — ≤ $105 Premium (≤ $50 Basic, ≤ $144 All Access) — upper bounds, not a checkout total; Premium is the envelope tier
Which platforms deliver on WhatsApp or text?
Four of the ten send by WhatsApp or text as a real channel: Wedvite (one link for WhatsApp, text or email), Greenvelope (email, SMS in supported countries, WhatsApp, Messenger or link), Evite (SMS to US and Canada numbers, a shareable link for WhatsApp) and Bliss & Bone (email and a WhatsApp link worldwide, SMS in the US). Five are partial: Paperless Post texts US and Canada numbers but does not yet send invitations by WhatsApp, Joy charges for SMS and leaves WhatsApp to you, Zola and The Knot give you a free link to share by text, email or DM with no channel of their own, and Minted offers email or a copyable link only. Canva's delivery cell is not verified on 15 September 2026. The one-link approach is explained on WhatsApp wedding invitations and on our digital wedding invitations page.
Do digital wedding invitations look tacky?
Not when the invitation is designed for the phone it will be opened on: an envelope that opens, music, full names, the venue on a map and a reply button read as considered, not cheap. A plain image pasted into a group chat with the details missing is what people mean by tacky. The medium is not the problem; the care is, and digital vs paper wedding invitations walks through when each format suits your guests.
How we compared
On 15 September 2026one of us fetched each platform's own pricing and help pages and recorded the price model, the published cost of one invitation to 100 guests, and whether RSVP, an animated envelope, WhatsApp or text delivery, a wedding website and a free tier exist. Two more of us then checked every number and every yes or no against a verbatim quote from the vendor; anything without one became “not verified on 15 September 2026” and stayed that way. We collected no ratings and show no stars. This page is written by Wedvite, which sells one of the ten products; the Wedvite row uses our own price list and the same seven criteria, and where a visitor sees a local currency the US-dollar list price is printed beside it. The full add-on list is on Wedvite pricing. The wider hub, with head-to-head comparisons, is at Compare.
