Birthdays
Birthday dinner and drinks invitations: two times, one link
Dinner at 9pm, drinks at 00:30 in another part of town: one invitation, two times, two map links and an RSVP that tells you who is coming to which half.
Send The Joy · September 30, 2026 · 3 min read
At 9pm on a Saturday, twenty people are squeezed around two pushed-together tables in La Latina. Plates get cleared around eleven. By half past midnight, the same twenty are supposed to be standing in a bar in Malasana with a drink in hand. The invitation that got them there said one thing: dinner, 9pm, one address. Anyone who skipped the restaurant is now texting the group, asking where to go and who is already there.
That gap is what a two-part night leaves open. A birthday dinner and drinks invitation has to carry two times and two addresses, and still work as one link people can answer from their phone in two taps. Here is how to build it.
The birthday dinner and drinks invitation, in two blocks
A 9pm table and a 00:30 bar are the same night, but they are not the same event for the guest. Some people only come to dinner, some only come for drinks, and a few do both. Split the invitation into two blocks with their own time, address and map link, and label each part so nobody has to guess when to move.
- Dinner block: 9pm, restaurant name, street address, map link, closest metro stop.
- Drinks block: 00:30, bar name, its own address, its own map link and metro stop.
- One line that sets the pace: 'first the table, then the bar.' It tells guests they do not have to head home after dessert.
- Never leave the second address as 'ask in the group.' Whoever arrives at midnight has nobody to ask.
A map link beats a written address
Put a map link under each address rather than one link for the whole night. The dinner link gets a colleague from the office to the restaurant. The drinks link gets someone else from home straight to the bar at half past midnight. Two links, two journeys, no phone calls from the back of a taxi.
If the bar has no sign outside, a real reference saves more time than the street number: 'green door, opposite the square.' Add the nearest metro stop to both addresses and anyone skipping dinner can still find you without messaging three people.
Two times and two addresses are not a complication. They are the shape of the night, and one link can carry both.
The plan changes at half eleven; the link does not
Bars close, groups move on, someone's train runs late. When you edit the invitation after sending it, the address, the time, the dress code and the cover line all update, and the link your guests already have keeps working. Nobody reprints anything and nobody sends a correction message.
The cover says dinner; the last scene says bar
A photo of the table with candles opens the invitation; a photo of the group at the bar closes it. Two images tell the two halves of the night better than a paragraph. You can add up to six of your own photos, mark one as the cover, and swap any of them later; they fit the frame on their own. Pick the colour first. A dark background with one warm accent holds the dining room and the bar without looking like two different invitations.
Set the two times, drop in both map links, and the invitation does the work twenty messages used to do. The cover can be tested for free; the full invitation costs 29,99 EUR as a one-off payment, with the RSVP list sitting inside it. Start with the design, then fill in the two addresses.
