Digital wedding invitations for UK couples

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 come in 11 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.

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.

£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. You pay only for the ones you add.

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.