Digital Invitation for a Christening: Kids Menu Cost

The restaurant sends one quote and it has four lines: adults, children, high chairs, cake. You read it twice and you're still not sure what the day will actually cost. That's the moment to split the bill into three piles — the invitation, the food per cover, and the table details (cake, sweets, paper tablecloths). The first pile you can close today: a digital invitation from the catalogue is €29.99, one payment, no subscription, and you can build it and send it this evening.

The other two piles depend on something far less photogenic than the design: how many children sit down and how the caterer charges them. A three-year-old who nibbles from his mother's plate and a nine-year-old who asks for seconds are not the same cover.

What you pay for in a digital invitation for a christening

The €29.99 is the closed cost of the invitation part, whether thirty people come or fifty. It's a page of its own with a link and a QR code; guests open it in the browser, no app to install, and the replies land inside it. Everything else on that quote moves with the headcount, so keep the two apart when you compare prices.

• A fixed price per child cover and per adult, VAT included, in writing.
• The minimum number of kids' menus, and what happens if your confirmations land below it.
• Whether the high chair and the children's tablecloth are included or charged separately.
• The deadline for giving the restaurant your final number of guests.

How much does a digital christening invitation cost with a kids' menu?

Less than the menu does. Say your caterer charges €18 per child and twelve children are confirmed: that's €216 that never shows up on the invitation but lands on the final invoice. Ask whether they charge a full kids' menu, half a menu, or just the chair and the high chair — and whether that price changes with age.

The cousins' table is the second thing. If eight children sit together, you need a table of eight kids' covers, not four adults with children scattered around, and that redraws the room plan. Close the number of kids' menus when the confirmations come in, not when you book: reserving for twenty children and confirming ten is often charged the same.

The invitation is a fixed €29.99. The children's menu is the line that keeps moving.

What you shouldn't pay twice

If you want paper for the grandparents, combine rather than duplicate: one link for everyone and a handful of printed copies for whoever will keep them. Don't pay for a separate website or an app either — the invitation already is its own page with its link, its QR and its list of confirmations. And add the caterer's extras (children's tablecloth, high chairs, cake) before you fall for a design detail, because those three usually cost more than any pretty touch on the card. Unlike printed cards, digital invitations don't need reprinting when the time or the venue changes: you edit, the link stays the same, and guests see the update.

Count children without turning the invitation into a form

Set your RSVP questions while you build the invitation — who's coming, whether children are coming with them — and the answers arrive in an ordered list inside the invitation, so you count names instead of scrolling through WhatsApp. If the restaurant takes the kids' menu order at the table, say it on the cover in one line: "kids' menus are ordered at the venue" saves you twenty messages that week. You can try the cover for free before paying, and once it's yours you edit the time, the map or the dress code without resending anything. Pick a design, count the children, and send it today.