Digital wedding invitations for UK couples
Written by the Wedvite founders
A digital wedding invitation is one link you send by WhatsApp or text. Guests tap it, the envelope opens, and the date, the church or venue, the schedule, the dress code and the RSVP are all inside. Day and evening invitations use the same design. It costs £89 once, for unlimited guests, with nothing to post.
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Prices in pounds. Free to design and to share with your first 10 guests.
How does a digital wedding invitation work?
You choose a design, type your own wording into it, and add your photographs, the venue, the schedule and the RSVP. What you get back is a single web address. There is nothing to download and nothing to install — a guest taps the link in a message, an envelope opens on their phone, and the invitation plays out as one page they can scroll: your names, the date, the ceremony, where the reception is, how to get there, what to wear, and a button to reply.
The practical difference from a printed card is that it is still editable after it has gone out. A ceremony moved by half an hour, a new car park, a hotel block that has filled up — you change it once and every guest who opens the same link sees the correction. Nothing is reprinted and nobody is sent a second invitation with an apology attached, which is the single most useful property a wedding invitation can have between the day you send it and the day you marry.
There are more than 30 designs to start from, each with its own animation, typography and music, and they render in 12 languages if part of your family reads another one. A published invitation stays live through your wedding date and at least 90 days after, so the schedule is still there for a guest checking the start time on the morning itself.
How do you send a wedding invitation by WhatsApp or text?
You paste the link into the chat, with a line of your own above it. That is the whole mechanism, and in the UK it is the reason the format works at all: the people you are inviting are already in WhatsApp groups with you — the family thread, the university lot, the group that is organising the hen do — and a message from your own number gets opened in minutes rather than sitting on a hall table. The link unfurls into a preview with your names on it, so it does not look like a stray URL.
For anyone not on WhatsApp, the same link works in a text message, and it works in an email if that is how you speak to your parents' friends. For a grandmother who would rather hold something, print one copy of a card with a QR code on it — she scans it or somebody scans it for her, and it opens the same invitation. Guests never need an account, and they never need the app you happened to send it from.
One thing to be clear about: we do not message your guests on your behalf. There is no bulk send, no vendor SMS gateway and no mailing list — you send the link yourself, from your own number, to the people you choose. The upside is that it arrives as a message from you. The mechanics, group by group, are in sending wedding invitations by WhatsApp, with the wider list of routes in how to send wedding invitations online and the printable version in the wedding RSVP QR code guide.
How do you word an evening invitation?
British guest lists usually split in two, and no other market does this in quite the same way. Day guests come to the ceremony and the wedding breakfast — the name for the meal afterwards, whatever time it is served — and stay for the evening. Evening guests arrive after the meal, for the drinks, the cake and the dancing. It is a practical convention rather than a slight: a church and a sit-down meal have a capacity, a dance floor does not.
Three rules make it land well, and they are the same rules on a link as on a card. Send both invitations at the same time, so nobody hears about the wedding from somebody else first. Use the same design for both, so the evening invitation never looks like the cheap version. And never explain the split on the invitation itself — no “due to limited numbers”, no apology. An evening invitation is an invitation to a party, and it should read like one.
The wording changes in two places. The evening version invites the guest to the evening celebration of your marriage rather than to the ceremony, and it gives an arrival time andan end time — “7:30pm until midnight”, or “carriages at midnight” if you want the traditional phrasing — because an evening guest is planning an arrival, not a whole day. Keep the reply deadline on both: the caterer still counts evening food. Two complete examples, a day invitation and its evening pair, are set out in our wedding invitation wording guide.
What the digital version adds is that the times live inside the invitation rather than on a card in a drawer. If the band starts later than planned, the evening guests' schedule is correct by the time they look at it again, and the reply line becomes one instruction — reply on the invitation by a named date — instead of a reply card and a second stamp.
How do guests RSVP, and what do you get back?
The reply lives on the invitation. A guest reaches the end of the page, taps yes or no, and that is the interaction — no account, no password, nothing to install. If you have switched on named guests, each person on an invitation answers for themselves, so a couple where one can come and one cannot does not turn into an email exchange.
You can also ask for what the venue is going to want from you in a few weeks: meal choices from a set list, and a dietary question collecting allergies and requirements guest by guest. Your dashboard shows a live headcount and groups the meal totals, and it exports to CSV, which is the format every caterer and venue coordinator in the country will ask for. Guests can write you a message at the same time, and those land in the dashboard rather than scattered across three chats.
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How much does a digital wedding invitation cost in the UK?
£89, paid once, for unlimited guests. There is no subscription, no per-guest fee and no separate charge for the RSVP — a list of 40 and a list of 300 cost the same, because the cost of sending one more link is nothing and pricing it as though it were something would be a fiction. Hosting runs through your wedding date and at least 90 days after.
Designing it is free, and so is sharing the finished invitation with your first 10 guests — not a watermarked preview, the real thing — so you can send it to your maid of honour and your mother before you decide. A hero-only digital save the date is £19. Optional extras are priced individually: your own song, a wax seal with your initials, a hand-drawn sketch of the venue, and a second language for the invitation. All four together are £120 rather than £139 separately.
The two costs that disappear are worth naming, because they are what makes the arithmetic different here: there is no print run and there is no postage, on the invitation or on the reply card. The cost of wedding invitations works through that comparison properly, and our pricing page lists every line in your own currency.
Is a digital invitation right for a traditional wedding?
Often, yes — and where it is not, it is worth knowing why rather than guessing. A digital invitation is as formal as the words you put in it. The host line can name both sets of parents in the old form, the date and the hour can be spelled out, and the whole thing can be set in the same typography an engraver would use. The etiquette that actually matters in Britain is timing and clarity: send the invitation once the date is fixed, be exact about times, and make the reply easy.
Paper still wins in two cases. The first is the keepsake — some couples want one card framed, and printing a single copy of a design you have already made is straightforward. The second is a specific guest, usually an older relative, for whom a card is the polite form and a link is not; sending both to them costs almost nothing and settles it. For everyone else, the invitation that holds the map, the schedule and the reply is the one that generates the fewest phone calls.
The trade-offs are laid out in digital versus paper wedding invitations, the timing question is in when to send wedding invitations, and digital wedding invitation etiquette covers the rest of the manners.
What do the designs look like?
These are live invitations, not screenshots. Tap one and it opens exactly as a guest would see it, animation, music and RSVP included.
The whole collection is on the templates page, and digital save the dates use the same designs at £19.
The questions everyone asks.
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