Digital invitation for a 25-guest baby shower in Lisbon

Twenty-five names in a note on your phone. Three weekends to go. Half the guests live across Lisbon, the grandparents are flying in, and the restaurant wants a number by Friday. You need to know what a digital invitation for a baby shower for 25 guests in Lisbon costs before you decide anything else, and whether that price climbs with every extra cousin. You can pick a design, set up the cover and send the link today.

The short version: you pay once. 29,99 EUR per invitation, no subscription, no price per guest. The invitation itself is the cheap part. What usually blows up the budget are the extras around it, and most of them have nothing to do with the 25 people on your list.

What you actually pay for in a digital invitation

Digital invitations are priced per page, not per person. One payment covers the design, the editor in your browser and the link you share. Fifteen confirmations or twenty-five, the invoice reads the same. The editor is Joy Studio: it runs in the browser, and nobody installs anything, neither you nor your guests.

• The price is per invitation, not per guest: 29,99 EUR once, with no monthly fee waiting for you to forget to cancel.
• A free trial: you edit the cover in test mode without paying, and the rest of the scenes unlock when you buy.
• Up to six photos of your own, cover and decorative ones, framed automatically, so you don't need a designer to make the collage work.
• RSVP questions you choose, with the answers arriving in an ordered list inside the invitation instead of scattered across 25 chats.

How much does a digital invitation for a baby shower cost with 25 guests?

The same as with fifteen. Every name you add doesn't add a line to the bill. Paper doesn't work that way: 25 cards mean 25 cards, plus envelopes, plus postage, plus getting them to people across Lisbon by hand when the post is too slow. And 25 people still fit in one WhatsApp group, but not in 25 private messages asking what time it starts. One pinned link answers all of them.

The real money goes elsewhere. Printing and delivery, charged per unit. A custom illustration of balloons and little animals, seen for one afternoon and never used again for the christening or the first birthday. The template you change halfway through, which means paying for the customisation twice because the text was already fitted to another layout. None of that makes the shower better. It makes it more expensive.

With a digital invitation, 25 guests cost the same as 15. The bill only grows when you pay for things your guests will never notice.

The link that keeps working after you send it

If the restaurant moves the shower to four o'clock, or the table ends up in the other room, you edit the invitation and the link stays exactly the same. Nobody gets 25 correction messages. Same for the map, the dress code and the line about parking. Photos and the text of each scene are changed from the browser, and guests who reopen the link read the current version. You can also set the language of the invitation, which matters when the table mixes Portuguese, English and Spanish readers. And if grandma wants something to hold, print one copy for her: Send The Joy is digital only, no paper and no postage.

What to check before you pay

Three things. That you can try the cover before paying anything. That the RSVP sits inside the same page and the questions are yours to set. That the price is one-off, with no per-guest line hiding in the small print. Once that's clear, 25 guests become twenty-five names in a tidy list: you count chairs, order the cake and stop recounting messages. Pick a design, try the cover for free and publish the link when everything's right.