Digital invitation for a 1920s gala dinner party

Half past seven, and the table is already set: black cloth, gold-rimmed coupes, orchids. Half your guests are still asking whether "formal" means a tuxedo, and a few of them can't open the PDF on their phone. That's the exact gap a digital invitation closes. You can build one for a 1920s gala dinner today, straight from the catalogue, and send the link before the candles are lit.

Nothing to print, nothing for guests to install. They open the link in the browser, see the night you've designed and reply from the same screen. What's left is the detail work — and at a Gatsby-style dinner, the detail is the whole thing.

Digital invitation for a 1920s gala dinner: gold first, typography second

Art deco doesn't survive clutter. Three colours, two typefaces, one strong image. What reads as 1920s on a phone screen is the contrast between a dark background and a thin gold line, so the palette comes before everything else.

• Pick three tones and stop there: night black, champagne gold, one off-white. A fourth colour flattens the effect, because art deco lives on that single gold line against the dark, not on a full spectrum.
• Set a geometric sans in tall caps for the label — 'Gala dinner', '1928' — and a thin serif for the date, the time and the place. That jump between the two typefaces is what makes someone think of Gatsby before they read a single name.
• Choose the cover image before you write anything: a coupe glass half full in low light, a chandelier out of focus, a detail of feathers. You can upload up to six photos, mark one as the cover and replace any of them later; each photo frames itself, so nothing needs cropping first.
• Keep the structure to three or four scenes — threshold, toast, long dinner — each with its own text and photo. A guest scrolling through the evening beats a guest staring at one long block of information.

A digital invitation that says what to wear

Write the dress code in three words people actually understand: "Black tie, 1920s wink". If you only write "formal", half the room turns up in a plain tie and no feathers. Split the timings as well — "Cocktails half past seven / Dinner half past eight" — so nobody walks in while the first course is already on the table.

Then give the cover one line with character, something like "Champagne is poured at half past seven". A single short sentence carries more of the night's tone than a paragraph of welcome. The editor counts characters as you type, so you can see when a line is running long before it gets cut. If you want the link to open with sound, add a soft jazz track under the text.

Black background, one gold line, two timings on the cover and a guest who already knows what to wear: that's the minute that decides whether the night feels like a gala.

What a digital invitation for a 1920s gala dinner costs

€29.99, one payment, no subscription. Try the cover free first: write the title, upload the photo, see exactly what your guests will see. Pay only when you want the rest of the scenes unlocked. Then hit publish and the link is live — guests open it in any browser, install nothing, and every confirmation lands in an ordered list inside the invitation instead of scattered across WhatsApp. Open the catalogue, build the cover of your digital invitation today, and unlock the scenes once the link convinces you.