Digital invitation: civil and religious wedding same day

Ten in the morning at the town hall, one o'clock at the church door, three for the cocktail. Three lines, one day. Then the messages start: is the cocktail in the same place as the ceremony, do we go to the church first, what time is dinner? A civil and religious wedding on the same day is a timetable problem before it is anything else, and it is the one thing a digital invitation settles in an afternoon.

You pick a design from the catalogue, fill in one field per piece of information and publish. The invitation is a page of your own with chained scenes, each one with its time, its text and up to six of your photos. €29.99, paid once. Your guests open the link in any browser, no app to install, though they will need a phone, tablet or laptop with a connection.

Civil and religious wedding on the same day: the clock decides

Three hours between the signature and the church is not padding. It is the drive, the group photos and the register signing, in that order. Put the exact time of every block in writing, and check the light: a 13:00 ceremony in Málaga in August does not photograph like one in May, and where you put the group photos moves the rest of the programme.

• 10:00 civil ceremony, 13:00 church, 15:00 cocktail. Those gaps cover the transfer, the group photos and the signatures.
• A clock time for every block, never 'to follow'. Nobody has to message you to ask when the cocktail starts.
• Say who each block is for: civil ceremony and aperitif only, church only, or the whole day.
• Between the town hall, the church and the venue, count thirty minutes per trip. That is the difference between arriving for the cocktail and walking in while they serve.

The outfit change fits if you announce it properly

Two looks are normal: long dress for the church, shorter one for the dancing. Put the line where it will actually be read, next to the time of the first dance, and keep it short: 'outfit change after the toast'. Dress code per block works the same way, and it is what guests who only come to the banquet read first: formal for the ceremony, comfortable for the night.

Move the dancing an hour or reword the dress code three days before and you edit that scene in the browser. The link stays the same, so there is nothing to resend and no group message with corrections. Whoever opens the invitation reads the current version.

Two ceremonies, one link: timetable, dress code and RSVP in the same place, editable until the week of the wedding.

Why a digital invitation holds two ceremonies

Chained scenes do the work of two invitations: threshold, civil ceremony, church, long dinner, last dance, each one with its own time and its own photos. If the civil ceremony runs late and the cocktail shifts half an hour, you edit that scene and every guest sees the new time. The RSVPs arrive inside the invitation in one ordered list and you set the questions yourself, so you know who is coming to the civil ceremony, who is coming to the church and who is coming to both. Try it free, publish the link once the day is closed, and keep the confirmations in one place instead of chasing them by WhatsApp.