Digital wedding invitations
in one link you share.

Choose digital if you want RSVPs tracked for you, the freedom to change details after sending, and a price that does not grow with the guest list. Choose print if a physical card matters to you or to the family, and you have the six to eight weeks a print run and the post need. Many couples do both: a short printed card for the older relatives and one link for everyone else.

The sums are the clearest difference. A print run for 100 guests costs hundreds once you add envelopes, postage and the reply cards nobody sends back, and a change of venue means a reprint. Call them virtual wedding invitations, e-invites or online wedding invitations — the digital version replaces all of that with one page, one link and one price. Wedvite is flat: starting at $19 for a save the date and $89 for the full invitation, unlimited guests.

No — a badly made one is. A JPG dropped into a group chat, a Canva export with the wrong date, a bare link with no preview: those read as an afterthought, and that is where the reputation comes from. A designed invitation page that arrives as a preview card, opens on an envelope, plays your song and answers every question a guest has — when, where, how to get there, how to reply — reads as considered, because it is. The people who still object are usually objecting to the effort, not the medium, so put the effort where they can see it: a warm line above the link, the right names, and a design that suits the wedding. For formal weddings, the case for paper and the case against it are both in our guide to digital vs paper wedding invitations.

The same five things a printed one says, in the same order: who is inviting, who is getting married, when, where, and how to reply. Digital adds two lines paper cannot — the RSVP is a tap on the page rather than a card in the post, and the venue is a map rather than an address to copy. Keep the host line honest (both families, one family, or the couple), write the date in full, and let the page carry the schedule, dress code and travel notes so the invitation itself stays short.

Six to eight weeks before the wedding, or ten to twelve weeks for a destination wedding or a guest list that has to book flights. Set the RSVP deadline three to four weeks before the day so the caterer and the seating plan have a final number. That is the same window as paper — digital does not change when guests need to know, only how fast they find out and how easily they reply.

What digital does change is the run-up. There is no print lead time and no post, so you can send the day the details are final, and you can send a save the date months earlier without a second print run. Our digital save the dates go out nine to twelve months ahead and grow into the invitation on the same link, so guests never have two things to keep. The full timeline, including what to do without a save the date and how to handle out-of-town guests, is in when to send wedding invitations.

Yes, and the animated version is the one guests remember. On Wedvite every invitation opens on an animated envelope, and most designs carry a video hero — a Tuscan hillside turning to dusk, a ballroom lighting up, cherry blossom drifting — that plays as the page opens, with your song underneath. It is motion on a live page, not an attachment: the link opens in the browser on any phone, and in WhatsApp or a text the link shows a preview card of the design.

That is a different thing from a GIF you forward. An animated GIF is a short, silent, low-colour file with no RSVP and no way to update; a video file has sound but the same problems, plus a download for every guest. We do not export a GIF or video file, because the page already does what those were standing in for — and it still works when a guest opens it a year later. In the gallery below every global design is shown twice — the invitation, and the frame its video hero opens on, marked “Video hero” — and on the wedding invitation templates page you can open every video hero live.