Digital invitation: baby shower loft Barcelona costs

It's Tuesday and the loft in Poblenou is holding your date. Whitewashed brick, tall windows, a long wooden table. The owner answers with a price per hour and a minimum, and the cost of a baby shower in a Barcelona loft stops being about the cake and starts being about how many people walk through the door. A digital invitation gives you that number early: choose a design, try it free and send the link today.

Here's what the loft actually charges by, what you ask for in writing, and how your guest list decides the final bill.

A baby shower loft in Barcelona charges by the hour

The invoice moves with the clock, not with the number of guests. Two things decide it: how many hours you contract and which slot you take. Friday evening and Saturday morning don't cost the same, even with the room just as empty. Ask about the minimum contracted hours before you talk about decoration.

• Minimum contracted hours, not the hours you think you'll need. That single figure moves the bill more than ten extra guests do.
• The slot. Ask what an evening slot costs against a morning one with the same number of hours.
• Everything that isn't rent: final cleaning, deposit, set-up and take-down time, and the surcharge for the kitchen or the sound system.
• The real key handover. If set-up starts at 11:00 and your first guest arrives at 12:00, that hour is already on your bill.

Your digital invitation turns the list into a number before you sign

Confirmations arrive inside the invitation itself, in one ordered list. Twenty yeses on Saturday morning are one glance, not twenty WhatsApp messages you have to count on your fingers.

With that number you know whether the loft's minimum headcount for catering pushes your menu up, or whether you have spare chairs and a sweet table bigger than it needs to be. And if you move the time or the venue two weeks out, you edit the invitation. The link stays the same and nothing gets resent.

The loft charges for hours. Your invitation tells you how many people those hours have to hold.

What pushes the price up before the first canapé

Catering is charged per person, often with a minimum headcount, so ten fewer confirmations may take nothing off the invoice. Decoration runs on its own clock: the balloon arch, the sweet table and the photo corner all need set-up time inside the rental window, and that time is paid. Cake, photographer, sound and transport normally sit outside the loft's quote. Put them on the same sheet as the hourly rate so you see one total.

Three numbers to ask the loft for in writing

Get them in an email, so there's nothing to argue about later.

• Price per hour and minimum hours, with the real entry and exit times and whether set-up counts.
• Maximum capacity standing and seated: the same loft is priced differently depending on how full you want it.
• What's included and what isn't. Cleaning, sound, kitchen, tableware, deposit.
• Whether outside catering is allowed, and at what surcharge.

Before you sign the loft, know how many people it has to hold. A digital invitation from Send The Joy gives you that number for €29.99, one payment, no subscription. Pick a design, try it free, and publish the link once your date is locked.