Digital invitation: 30th wedding anniversary cost

Fourteen people, one long table, and a date that's been in the diary since last spring. The dinner for your 30th wedding anniversary is booked. The invitation is the bit still sitting in a notes app, half-written. You can sort it today: pick a design, fill in the date and the address, and send the link before the evening is out. Here's what a digital invitation for a 30th wedding anniversary costs, and what's actually inside that price.

Thirty years together doesn't need a slideshow. It needs a page with the date, the address, and a place to say yes or no. That's the whole job. One payment, no monthly plan, no charge per guest.

What a digital invitation for a 30th wedding anniversary costs

One payment of 29.99 EUR covers the entire invitation, whatever the guest list looks like. Dinner for fourteen or a party for sixty: the number doesn't move. For that you get a web page for the event, built from linked scenes — the long dinner, the last dance — that you fill with your own wording and up to six of your own photos. You edit it in the browser, you see the preview as you type, and you publish with one button.

• One payment of 29.99 EUR per invitation: no subscription, no cost per guest.
• Up to six of your own photos, a cover you choose, and any photo can be swapped later.
• An RSVP form inside the invitation, with the answers arriving in one ordered list.
• Nothing to install for guests: it opens in the browser on a phone, tablet or laptop.

Digital invitations vs paper for a 30th anniversary

Paper still makes sense for three or four copies someone will keep in a drawer. For the rest of the list, a link does the work. The real cost of a paper invitation isn't the printing. It's the envelopes, the postage, and the reprint when the time moves from 21:00 to 21:30 — each correction paid for twice, once at the printer and once at the courier.

There's also the hours. Typing forty messages one by one to ask who's coming takes longer than setting up any template, and it leaves you with a chat thread instead of a list. A PDF dropped in the group chat has the same problem: by Tuesday it's buried under voice notes. Digital invitations are a web page, so the details live in one place and the confirmations arrive in one place too.

The guest list doesn't care how the invitation was made. It cares that the time and the address are right.

The link stays the same when the dinner doesn't

Three things worth checking before you decide. Count the real guest list: if the price doesn't rise per person, what you save goes to the table. Ask whether your older guests can open a link — a phone, tablet or laptop is enough, and if someone can't, print that one copy. And agree who updates the details. If the answer is 'me, from my phone at eleven at night', you can edit after sending — time, place, map, dress code, the line on the cover — and the link stays exactly the same. Nobody has to resend anything. Pick a design, try the cover for free, and publish when the list is closed.