· Written by the Wedvite founders · Prices checked 15 September 2026
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In short: paper wedding invitations cost roughly £2–£5 per guest in the UK once you add design, printing, envelopes and postage — about £240–£310 for 80 invitations, and about £490 once matching save-the-dates, RSVP cards and thank-you cards are printed and posted as well. A digital wedding invitation is a single flat price of around $89 for unlimited guests, with no printing and no postage. Below is the honest maths, item by item, and what nine digital platforms charge.
Paper wedding invitations cost about £2–£5 per guest in the UK, all-in — roughly £240–£310 for 80 invitations on the mid-range build below, and about £490 once save-the-dates, RSVP cards and thank-you cards are printed and posted as well. A fully bespoke, letterpress or calligraphed suite pushes the same list past £700. A digital wedding invitation is a single flat price — $89 here, for unlimited guests — because nothing is printed and nothing is posted.
The reason the two answers look so different is that they are priced on different things. Paper is priced per guest; digital is priced per wedding. That is also why a paper quote goes up every time your list grows and a digital one does not. The full Wedvite price list is one page, and the digital vs paper wedding invitations comparison sets out what each format costs you beyond the money.
What are you actually paying for?
Wedding invitation prices vary enormously, but the total is built from the same parts every time. With paper, four of them scale with your guest count — you pay again for every single person you invite:
Design / artwork — a one-off cost — from a low-price template to a few hundred pounds for bespoke or calligraphy.
Printing — charged per card and by finish; foil, letterpress and thick stock cost far more than flat digital printing.
Envelopes & extras — envelopes, liners, belly bands, wax seals and ribbon all add up per invitation.
Postage — the quiet killer — a stamp on every invitation out, and often a second stamp on every RSVP card back.
The full paper “stationery suite” also usually means save-the-dates before and thank-you cards after — each one designed, printed and posted all over again.
How much do wedding invitations cost for 80 guests?
Here’s a realistic mid-range breakdown for an 80-guest wedding, paper against digital, item by item. Figures are typical UK estimates — treat them as illustrative ranges, not a live quote.
Item
Paper (80 guests)
Digital
Design / artworktemplate to semi-custom
£40
included
Printing invitations80 cards, mid-range stock
£120
—
Envelopes80, plain
£15
—
Postage out80 × ~85p 2nd class
£68
£0
Save-the-dates80, printed + posted
£90
from $19
RSVP cards + return stamps80 × ~85p
£68
included
Thank-you cards80, printed + posted
£90
—
Typical total
≈ £490
$89 flat$108 with the save the date, like for like with the paper column
Trim the suite to just invitations and you might spend £240–£310 on paper; add foil, letterpress or a calligrapher and it climbs past £700. The paper column’s total includes its printed save-the-date row, so the like-for-like digital figure is $108, not $89. The digital column doesn’t move — it’s one flat price whether you invite 40 guests or 400. The save-the-date is a separate digital save the date SKU, so it is priced, not free.
How much do digital wedding invitations cost per platform?
“Digital” is not one price. Some platforms are free and make their money elsewhere, some bill you per guest, and some charge one flat fee. Here is what the nine main options charge for the same 80-guest wedding, read from their own pricing pages on 15 September 2026. We are one row in it, and we are not the cheapest.
Digital wedding invitation prices for an 80-guest wedding, checked 15 September 2026
Free wedding website, RSVP and digital save the dates; no digital wedding invitation sold; printed invitations $1.99, per card at 100 qty
Free — but for a save the date, not an invitation
Yes — The free version of The Knot Wedding Website is fully functional and includes all core wedding website features without requiring a paid upgrade, subscription, trial period
$89 flat, paid once, unlimited guests, no per-guest fee
$89 flat — the same price at 8 guests or 800
Partly — design everything free and share with your first 10 guests; pay once to publish for everyone
Yes
Every figure was read on 15 September 2026 from the platform’s own pages: Paperless Post pricing, Greenvelope wedding invitations, Joy pricing, Zola wedding website, The Knot help centre, Minted help centre, Bliss & Bone online wedding invitations and Evite Premium pricing. Prices change; check them yourself before you buy. The 80-guest maths: Greenvelope publishes an “up to 80 people” single-mailing tier at $79. Paperless Post publishes no 80-guest total, so these are 80 × its published per-guest rates ($0.50, $1.05 and $1.44, demonstrated at 50 guests) — upper bounds, because the pricing page states the per-guest price falls as the guest count rises, so a real checkout total is lower. Bliss & Bone publishes no 80-recipient total either, so $72 is 80 × its published $0.90rate for 10 or more recipients; its wedding website is a separate $15/month–$21/monthsubscription and is excluded, because sending an invitation does not require one. Evite’s Platinum package caps at 75 guests, so 80 guests needs Diamond at $99.99; the $0 route is a free Evite design, which shows ads to your guests. Joy and Minted publish free digital invitations with no per-guest fee; Zola and The Knot do not sell a digital wedding invitation at all and give away a digital save-the-date instead. The Knot’s printed-invitation floor is the $1.99 list price per card at 100 quantity; a promo code took it to $1.39 on 15 September 2026. “Not verified on 15 September 2026” would mean the platform did not state the figure on its own pages that day — we leave it unstated rather than guess.
Paperless Post is the design-led option and the one whose bill grows with your list. It charges Coins per recipient across four feature sets, and the envelope animation people associate with the brand is gated at Premium — a free Paperless Post invitation is a plain card with no envelope. The first 50 invitations sent by email or phone number are free. Sending by WhatsApp is not available. Read the longer version on Paperless Post alternatives.
Greenvelope prices closest to the way we do: one flat fee per mailing, chosen by guest-list size. At exactly 80 guests its $79 tier undercuts our $89, and its animated envelope with liner, stamp and music is on every design — so if price at 80 guests is your only criterion, it wins that cell. What it does not do is a wedding website, its free mode stops at 10 recipients, and its price is a guest-capped ladder like Evite’s — an 81st guest moves the same mailing to the up-to-100 rung at $99. The longer version is on Greenvelope alternatives and in the head-to-head Greenvelope vs Paperless Post.
Joy is genuinely free for the core product — website, planning tools, registry, unlimited guests and online RSVP at $0 a month — and its Basic digital cards cost nothing with no minimum order. The catch is that the envelope and the reveal animation live only on paid Premium Digital cards, which Joy does not publish a price for, and Joy-originated SMS is a paid add-on limited to US and Canada numbers.
Zola and The Knot are the two that need a caveat rather than a price. Neither sells a digital wedding invitation at all — Zola’s help centre says so outright, and The Knot says the same on its own invitations catalogue. What they give away free is a wedding website with RSVP and a digital save the date. If you want a free wedding website, they are excellent. If you want a digital invitation, they will sell you paper.
Minted gives away both the digital invitation and the wedding website and charges flat upsells on top — $15 a year for a custom URL, $49 for a concierge session. There is no envelope animation (the guest-facing card is a single static page) and no SMS or WhatsApp channel anywhere in its help centre: email and a copyable link are the delivery routes.
Bliss & Bone charges $0.90 a recipient from ten recipients up, which works out at $72for 80 guests, below every paid row except Paperless Post’s Basic set, which has no envelope. Two things to hold against that. There is no envelope animation — its help centre says the online card is one flat card and extra pages are not an option — and the wedding website is a separate subscription at $15/month or $21/month, so the longer your engagement runs, the more the second bill matters.
Evite is the cheapest way to send something to 80 people if you accept the trade: free designs cover up to 750 guests but show ads to your guests. Going ad-free means a Premium package, and because Platinum caps at 75 guests, an 80-person list jumps to Diamond at $99.99 — more than a flat-priced invitation, for an event with no wedding website.
Wedvite is $89 flat, paid once, for unlimited guests. That buys the animated envelope, background music, a venue map, RSVP with a guest-messages dashboard, delivery by WhatsApp, text or email, more than 30 designs in 11 languages including right-to-left Arabic, editing after you have sent on the same link, and hosting through your wedding date and at least 90 days after. What we do not offer: a custom domain. And we are not free — five platforms in the table publish a way to send to 80 guests for nothing (Joy, Minted, Evite with ads, and Zola and The Knot for a save-the-date rather than an invitation). Full round-up: the best digital wedding invitations.
Which is cheapest for 80 guests?
On published prices, free wins: Joy’s Basic digital cards and Minted’s Online Invitations both cost nothing for 80 guests, Evite has a free design tier, and The Knot and Zola cost nothing for a digital save-the-date and a wedding website. The paid platforms in the table publish these US-dollar figures for 80 guests — Bliss & Bone $72, Greenvelope $79, Paperless Post at most $84 on Premium (less on Basic, which has no envelope) and Evite $99.99 on Diamond. Wedvite is $89flat for unlimited guests; we quote in your currency, so compare the figure above against those dollar prices at today’s rate rather than reading the four as one ordered list.
Cheapest is not the same as best value, and the honest way to read that list is by what each £0 costs you elsewhere: Evite’s free tier shows your guests advertising; Joy’s and Minted’s free cards have no envelope animation; Zola’s and The Knot’s free product is not an invitation. If none of that matters to you, take the free one — that is a real recommendation, not a hedge. If the opening animation, the music, the WhatsApp-first delivery and a second language in right-to-left script are the reason you are here, that is what the flat fee is for.
How much are wedding invitations?
Same question, American phrasing, same answer — with one difference worth knowing if you are shopping in dollars. Per suite, the paper numbers on this page hold: roughly £2–£5 a guest all-in, about £240–£310 for 80 invitations, and about £490 once save-the-dates, RSVP cards and thank-you cards are included. Per printed card, the US stationery sellers publish their own floors — The Knot lists printed wedding invitations at $1.99, per card at 100 quantity — and postage is on top of every one of them.
The digital answer does not change with the phrasing: a flat $89 for unlimited guests, or $0 to $99.99 elsewhere for a guest-capped package — and up to $115.20if you buy Paperless Post’s All Access set for 80 guests — depending on which platform and which trade-offs you pick, per the table above. Everything on this page is a 2026 figure; paper prices move with stock and postage, and the platform prices were checked on 15 September 2026.
How much does it cost to post wedding invitations?
Here’s the number that surprises most couples. At roughly 85p for a 2nd-class stamp, posting 80 invitations costs about £68— and if you enclose RSVP cards with return postage, that’s another £68. So stamps alone come to around £136before a single card is designed or printed. That’s more than the entire price of a digital wedding invitation, which posts nothing at all. (Larger or square invitations often need a “large letter” rate above £1.50 each, pushing postage higher still.)
Those are illustrative UK figures for 80 guests. To put your own numbers through the same sum — your household count, your printer’s card price and your postal service’s current stamp rate, itemised against one flat digital price — use the wedding invitation cost calculator. And before you order the cards that second £68 of stamps carries home, what goes on a wedding RSVP card sets out the six lines it needs.
Why is a digital invitation one flat price?
A digital invitation removes the two costs that scale — printing and postage — so the price stops depending on your guest count. You pay once for the design and setup, and then it’s the same link for everyone: 20 guests or 2,000, the total is identical. The save-the-date and the RSVP are built into the same link rather than being separate printed-and-posted items, and there are no thank-you-card stamps to buy afterwards. The more people you invite, the wider the gap between the two columns above.
It is also why the per-platform table splits the way it does. Flat pricing (Wedvite) and free pricing (Joy, Minted) hold still as your list grows; per-recipient pricing (Paperless Post, Bliss & Bone) and guest-capped packages (Greenvelope, Evite) do not. Work out your real number, not your hoped-for one, before you compare: an 81st guest moves a Greenvelope mailing from $79 to the up-to-100 rung at $99, and a single guest over Evite’s 75-guest Platinum cap moves that order from $68.99 to $99.99, with no pay-the-difference upgrade.
Is paper ever worth it?
Honestly, sometimes. A beautifully printed, letterpressed invitation is a lovely keepsake, and a few older relatives genuinely prefer receiving something in the post. A sensible middle path many couples take: send a digital invitation to everyone for speed, live RSVPs and zero postage, then print a small number — one framed copy for yourselves, a handful for guests who’d treasure the paper. You get the keepsake without paying to print and post the whole list.
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What is the average cost of wedding invitations in the UK?+
For paper, most UK couples spend roughly £2–£5 per guest once design, printing, envelopes and postage are added up — about £240–£310 for 80 invitations, and about £490 once matching save-the-dates, RSVP cards and thank-you cards are printed and posted as well. A fully bespoke, letterpress or calligraphed suite pushes the same list past £700. A digital wedding invitation is a single flat price of around $89 for unlimited guests, with no per-guest printing or postage.
How much do digital wedding invitations cost?+
Digital invitation prices fall into three shapes: free with limits (Joy and Minted publish free digital invitations, while Zola and The Knot give away a free digital save-the-date instead of selling a digital invitation at all), per recipient (Paperless Post publishes $0.00 to $1.44 a guest across four feature sets, with the envelope gated at the $1.05 Premium set, and Bliss & Bone charges $0.90 a recipient from 10 recipients up), and one flat price per mailing (Greenvelope's "up to 80 people" tier is $79; Wedvite is $89 once for unlimited guests). Every figure was read from each platform's own pages on 15 September 2026.
Which wedding invitation platform is cheapest for 80 guests?+
The free routes are cheapest outright: Joy's Basic digital cards and Minted's Online Invitations both cost nothing for 80 guests, Evite has a free design tier that shows ads to your guests, and The Knot and Zola give away a digital save-the-date without selling a digital invitation. Among the paid platforms in the table, the published US-dollar figures for 80 guests are Bliss & Bone $72, Greenvelope $79, Paperless Post at most $84 on its Premium rate (less on Basic, which has no envelope) and Evite $99.99 on Diamond. Wedvite is $89 flat for unlimited guests, so which one is cheapest for you depends on the size of your list and the currency you are billed in.
What is the cheapest way to do wedding invitations?+
The cheapest route is a digital invitation, because the two biggest costs of paper — printing every card and posting it — disappear entirely. One flat price covers your whole guest list, whether that's 40 people or 400. If you want some paper, a common money-saver is to send digital save-the-dates and RSVPs (the parts that need speed and postage) and print only a small number of keepsake invitations.
Are digital wedding invitations cheaper than paper?+
Almost always, and by a wide margin. Paper is priced per guest — design, card stock, printing, envelopes and a stamp each way for the RSVP. The postage alone on 80 invitations plus reply cards can cost more than a whole digital invitation. Digital is one flat price for unlimited guests, so the more people you invite, the bigger the saving.
Do you still need paper invitations if you send digital?+
No — a digital invitation is complete on its own: it carries your wording, venue, map, timings and a built-in RSVP. Many couples send digital to everyone and simply print one or two framed copies as a keepsake, or a small handful for older relatives who prefer post. There's no need to buy a full paper set alongside it.
