Boat wedding invitations in Barcelona: what to include

Your phone buzzes on a Tuesday in June. 'What time does the boat leave?' Then: 'Are heels a bad idea?' Then, from an aunt who has never been on anything smaller than a ferry: 'I get seasick. Is that going to be a problem?' You answer all three in the group chat. By August you will have answered each one a dozen more times.

A boat wedding invitation in Barcelona has to deal with three practical questions before anyone asks about the menu: what time you board, what to wear on your feet, and when the boat comes back. Sort those out and the group chat goes quiet.

Seasickness belongs on deck, not on the pontoon

Write the seasickness line like a favour, not a medical notice. Something like: 'If boats make you queasy, tell us and we'll keep you a spot on the middle deck, facing the horizon.' It reads as a small kindness, which is what it is. The detail that needs its own field is the boarding time, not a sentence buried in your story.

• Boarding time and pontoon on their own line — 'Boarding 18:30, Moll de la Fusta' — not tucked inside the story of how you met.
• The seasickness note in the welcome text, where guests read it before they leave the house.
• On a sailboat, add one line about the bow: that is where the boat moves most, and anyone feeling rough does better amidships.
• A name and a mobile number for the guest who starts feeling green. One contact, no forms.

Footwear decides whether you dance or slide

Wet teak and a thin heel do not get along. Say it in the dress code without sounding like somebody's mother: 'We're getting married looking at the sea — bring shoes that can handle a deck.' Flat soles or rubber. One line, and you have saved a guest a fall and a pair of shoes.

Barcelona in August adds a second thing to pack. On deck at eight in the evening it is around 28 degrees in the sun, and once the boat turns for home there is a cool wind off the water. Ask for a light layer for 23:00, not a coat.

Two lines do most of the work: what time the boat leaves, and what time it comes back.

Return time and pontoon: what a boat wedding invitation in Barcelona must spell out

A boat runs to a schedule. If the invitation says 'it ends when it ends', someone books dinner at 22:00 and misses it, or stays on land because they think there is still time. Put 'back at port: 23:00' next to the map and the address, in the same block where you explain how to reach the marina — and name it properly, Marina Port Vell or Port Olímpic, because taxi drivers ask and the Fòrum is a different place. All of it stays easy to change: the invitation is a web page you share as a link or a QR code, guests open it in a browser and reply from their phone with no app to install. Change the time, the pontoon or the dress code after you have sent it and the same link shows the new version — no reprints, no second round of messages. The RSVPs land inside the invitation in one ordered list, and you set the questions you want to ask. Pick a design, try the cover for free, and publish your link with the boarding time, the shoes and the return already on it. 29,99 EUR, one payment.