Digital invitation: 7 civil wedding ideas that order the day

Your register office slot is at 10:00 and the table is booked for 14:00. Somewhere between those two times, an aunt will ask whether there's a church, a cousin will want to know what to wear, and three people will confirm by WhatsApp in a chat you'll never find again. A digital invitation for a civil wedding sorts that out: one link, the signing in one scene, the meal in another, and every reply in the same list. You can pick a design and send it today from the catalogue.

It doesn't need ribbon or poetry. It needs to say where to be at ten, where to eat at two, and what to wear in between — clearly enough that nobody has to ask.

Two times, not one: what a civil wedding invitation has to spell out

Most confusion comes from a single word: ceremony. If your invitation says "ceremony at 10:00" and stops there, half the guest list pictures a church, dresses for one and arrives at the wrong door twenty minutes early. Write "civil ceremony" or "signing at the register office" and the tone settles on its own. Then give the meal its own scene, with the restaurant name and the time in the same place, so nobody has to cross-reference two screens.

• The opening scene says signing or civil ceremony — never mass, church or blessing.
• The register office time and the lunch time sit in separate scenes, each with its own address.
• The dress code fits on one line and reads on a phone without zooming.
• Confirmations arrive in one ordered list inside the invitation, not across three chats.

The best digital invitations for a civil wedding settle the dress code in a line

Dress code follows the clock, not the colour scheme. A 10:00 signing and a 14:00 lunch is a daytime plan, so "daytime formal" or "jacket and tie, cocktail dress" tells people more than "black tie" ever will. If the day rolls on into the evening, give the change its own line — "cocktail from 20:00, change optional" — instead of squeezing two dress codes into one sentence.

Write it once, where people actually look. If you change your mind three weeks later, you edit the text in the browser editor and the link stays exactly as it was, the same one you already sent. No follow-up message, no corrected card, no reprint.

A civil wedding invitation isn't a paper problem. It's a timing problem: two times, two places, and every guest reading the same link.

How much does a digital invitation for a civil wedding cost?

One invitation costs 29,99 EUR, paid once, with no subscription behind it. For that you get a page you can keep editing after publishing, up to six of your own photos, music, and RSVP questions you set yourself — so you ask what you need and skip the rest. Guests open the link in any browser on a phone, tablet or laptop and confirm from there. If a few people would keep a printed copy, print those few; the link does the rest. Pick a design, try the cover free and publish once the times are confirmed.