Digital invitation for a 20th birthday: set the tone

Marta turns 20 on a Saturday. Her mum is booking a long lunch for twelve at two in the afternoon. Her flatmates are planning a bar with a DJ from eleven at night. One birthday, two completely different rooms, and a group chat already holding three versions of the plan. You can build a digital invitation for both in one page and send it today from the catalogue: nothing to install for you, nothing to install for your guests.

Twenty is an awkward age to announce. A teddy-bear card is out. A stiff, formal card is out too. What you need is a page that says which party this is before anyone reads the address, and that you can fix in a minute when the time moves.

A 20th birthday digital invitation sets the tone first, colours later

Pick the party before you pick the palette. A dinner for twelve at home with a toast at ten wants a plain cover and one clear line of text. A venue with a DJ and a bar wants a big photo and music that starts playing when the page opens. Both are 20th birthdays. They don't look the same. Write the label first — 'Dinner and drinks', 'Rooftop at 9', '2000s theme' — and the rest gets easier. If you're juggling two celebrations, don't make two invitations: chain a scene for the lunch and another for the night inside the same link.

• Decide the label before the palette: 'Dinner and drinks' doesn't dress like '2000s party'.
• One sharp cover photo of the birthday person, plus two or three older ones for the middle scenes.
• A scene with date, time, address, map and dress code, each on a single line.
• One song for the cover and another for the last-dance scene.

What to put inside a 20th birthday invitation

Scenes, chained one after another inside a single link. A cover with the photo and the countdown. A middle scene with the date, the time, the address and the map. A final scene with the music and the RSVP form. You fill it in field by field — label, name, date, line, place — with a character counter so nothing runs long, and the preview changes as you type.

You can upload up to six of your own photos. They frame themselves, so there's no cropping to fight with, and you can mark which one is the cover and swap any photo after publishing. Music and RSVP questions are yours to set. It's 29.99 EUR for the invitation, paid once, no subscription.

Write the label first. Once the cover says 'Dinner and drinks', the typography has already made its decision for you.

Digital invitations vs paper for a 20th birthday

When the time shifts from nine to half past, you edit it and the link stays the same. Nobody gets a second message with a correction, and nobody has to scroll the chat to find the real hour. Confirmations arrive inside the invitation, in one ordered list, with the questions you chose to ask — no chasing replies on WhatsApp. If a grandparent will keep the card, print two or three copies with the QR on them and send the link to everyone else. Pick a design, set the tone and share one link: the page updates itself and collects your replies in order. Try the cover free and publish once the wording is final — on the day, all you have to decide is which song plays first.