Hen and stag parties
Bachelorette Party Invitations: Budgets That Fit
Agree one figure per person before anyone books a destination. Three spending tiers, a clear split for the bride's share, and one link for every RSVP.
Send The Joy · October 3, 2026 · 3 min read

It's a Tuesday night and the group chat is on message forty-one. Someone has suggested Lisbon, someone else has screenshotted a beach club near Malaga, and nobody has said out loud what anyone can actually spend. By Friday two people have gone quiet and the plan has shrunk to dinner at someone's flat. The destination was never the problem. The missing number was.
So here's a way to run it: agree one figure per person, decide who covers the bride's share, and let the invitation carry the details nobody should have to ask for twice. Three tiers, one number, one link.
Bachelorette party invitations: three spending tiers
Almost every hen plan sits in one of three bands, and it helps to name which band you're in before anyone opens a booking site. A night at someone's flat. A weekend in a country house. A flight, a hotel and a beach club. What changes is the total. What doesn't change is the invitation: 29,99 EUR, paid once, no subscription, not a fee per guest on the list.
- Night at someone's flat: ten people, everyone brings a dish, and the invitation is the only cost you're carrying — 29,99 EUR once, not per head.
- Country house weekend: two nights, shared lifts and a note on who sleeps where. Accommodation moves the total here, not the invitation.
- Flight, hotel and beach club: book the table and the taxi home. If the plan doesn't fit every pocket, the invitation still costs the same and it's already written.
- Whichever tier you pick, put it in writing before anyone books anything.
Settle the budget in the group chat, not at the destination
Before you choose where, write the figure per person in the group: 60, 150, 400. With the number sitting in the message, nobody drifts away halfway through planning. Ask about the date, not the enthusiasm. "Friday the 14th or Saturday the 15th?" gets an answer in two minutes. "Are you in?" sits there for a week. And say who is covering the bride's share in the same message where you give the price, so nobody ends up doing sums on the day.
Say the cheap version out loud too. If it's a night at home with everyone bringing something, that's a plan. A modest plan spelled out clearly beats an expensive one nobody confirms.

Pick the tier, put the number in the chat, and let the invitation carry the logistics.
One link instead of forty scattered replies
Once the invitation is published, confirmations arrive inside it in one ordered list. You see at a glance who's in and who hasn't answered, without scrolling back through the chat. You decide what the form asks: a name, whether they're bringing someone. If the time or the meeting point changes, you edit the invitation and the same link shows the updated version — no reprints, no second round of messages, no chasing. Guests don't install anything: they open the link on a phone, tablet or laptop and reply from there. And if the bride's grandmother wants something in her hands, print three copies with the QR code and send everyone else the link. Start with the number, choose the tier, and let the invitation do the rest.
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