How much does a digital christening invitation cost?

The restaurant has sent the set menu and you have it open next to the guest list. Forty-two adults, nine children, a christening on a Sunday in June. The cake is priced. The children's menu is priced. The table by the window is priced. The only blank line is the invitation, and it's the one you keep putting off because you don't know what it should cost. So here's the short answer on how much a digital christening invitation costs, and what you get for it.

It's €29.99, paid once. No subscription, no fee per guest, no second print run. The rest of this page is the detail behind that number: what's included, what isn't, and why the invitation is a small line in the christening budget.

How much a digital christening invitation costs: €29.99, once

One payment covers the whole invitation. No subscription, and no charge for each guest who opens the link. You send it to the family WhatsApp group, they open it on their phones, and it behaves the same whether thirty people come or ninety. Guests install nothing: it's an online christening invitation, opened in a browser.

• €29.99, paid once. No subscription and no cost per guest who opens the link.
• One link for the family group or a QR code. No counting envelopes, no return trip to the stationer's.
• Thirty guests or ninety: the same link opens as many times as you need.
• You can edit after sending, and the link stays the same. Guests see the updated version.

Where the christening money really goes

At a christening, the meal is the bill. The restaurant table, the children's menu, the cake, the drinks for the toast. Put that next to the christening invitation budget and the decision stops being a dilemma. It becomes a sum you can do in a minute, before you confirm the menu.

Now add up what nobody writes down. Stamps, envelopes, the printer, and a second print run when the time moves from 12:00 to 13:00 or the godmother's name changes. Paper charges you for every change. A link doesn't: you edit the text, publish, and the same URL shows the new version. No reprints, no correcting messages to the whole group.

The invitation costs €29.99 once. Re-printing it every time something changes is the part that gets expensive.

What's included (and what isn't)

Included: a web page for the christening with a title, names, date, a line and a place; up to six of your own photos; music; and the RSVP questions you set. Guests open the link, confirm in the browser, and the answers arrive in one ordered list, so you're not chasing anyone. The content can be set in seven languages. Not included: paper. It doesn't print or post anything. If your grandma wants a card in her hand, the sensible version is a link for everyone plus a few printed copies for the people who'll keep them in a drawer. Try a design for free, publish when it's right, and the invitation can be in the family group today.