Digital invitation for a christening in 15 days

The christening is in fifteen days. You have a date pencilled into your phone, a restaurant that hasn't called back and a guest list spread across four WhatsApp threads. Getting a printed card to a letterbox would take artwork, proofs and about a week. So let's plan how to organise a christening in 15 days around a digital invitation instead: you can have one live tonight for 29.99 EUR, one payment, no subscription, shared as a link.

The order that works is church, table, list, link. Sort the first three in the next 48 hours and let the invitation absorb whatever moves after that.

How to organise a christening in 15 days: days 1 and 2

Two calls decide the rest of the fortnight. Start with the parish, because the date belongs to the church, and only then book the table. If you keep two possible dates alive, you end up with two half-plans and no menu.

• Call the parish before the restaurant. Without the date you can't book a table or tell anyone anything.
• Ask the restaurant for a set adult menu, a children's price and the minimum number of covers they need on a Saturday.
• Write one date and one exact time in a single note on your phone, and delete the alternatives.
• Open a second note with three columns: name, connection (close family, friends, colleagues) and whether they bring a partner or children.

Digital invitations are the only thing you can send today

The restaurant hasn't answered and the parish office opens again on Thursday. Neither stops you sending the invitation this afternoon. Publish it, drop the link into WhatsApp, and your guests have the date, the church and the map while you keep working on the menu.

That's the difference between a link and an envelope. If the time shifts on day ten, you edit the scene and everyone sees the new version — the link stays the same, nobody re-sends a thing. Guests confirm inside the invitation, without installing an app, and the answers land in one ordered list instead of scattering through your chats. On the price question, it's flat: 29.99 EUR, paid once, nothing monthly.

Fifteen days is enough for a christening. It is not enough for a print run.

Texts and photos: what you decide, what the editor handles

Each piece of text has its own field with a character counter, so the baby's name never collides with the label above it. You choose the photos — up to six, one as the cover, the rest decorative — and they frame themselves; any of them can be swapped later. The dress code is one sentence you can rewrite on day twelve: "light colours, let's skip white." Nobody has to reprint an envelope.

The last five days: map, music and confirmations

Open the map on your own phone before you send anything. If it drops guests on the wrong street, fix it on day ten, not the Friday before. Choose the music and set only the confirmation questions you'll actually read: how many of you are coming, and whether any of them are children. Count replies at the 48-hour mark and ring the people who haven't answered. Day fifteen is for the outfit and collecting the cake.

Fifteen days won't stretch to print proofs, but they're plenty for an invitation that goes out tonight and keeps being edited until the last guest replies. Start with the digital invitation: try a design for free, publish it in one afternoon and change the time or the venue when the restaurant finally calls.