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Digital Invitation for a Civil Wedding: Two Hours, One Page

A digital invitation for a civil wedding has two jobs: the exact hour and the door where your people wait. Here's the structure, plus what it costs

Send The Joy · October 30, 2026 · 3 min read

Phone showing a digital invitation for a civil wedding on registry office steps, with a map, a clock and a small bouquet.
A digital invitation for a civil wedding has two jobs: the exact hour and the door where your people wait. Here's the structure, plus what it costs

The registry office gives you a time and a door number. That's the whole brief. On the morning, half your guests are on the pavement twenty minutes early, one couple is still looking for parking, and someone is texting to ask which entrance. A digital invitation for a civil wedding fixes that on one page: the hour, the door, who is waiting outside. You can build one and send it today from the catalogue.

Civil ceremonies are short and tightly timed. Two hours from arrival to the exit, and the logistics carry more weight than any decoration. Here is how to structure the invitation so nobody has to message you on the day.

What a civil wedding digital invitation has to say first: the exact hour

Write "11:30, door 2 of the registry office", not "around midday". Thirty minutes is the difference between a guest parking the car and a ceremony that has already started. Work backwards: arrival twenty minutes before, ceremony, signatures, exit. Put the end time on the page too, so nobody stands on the stairs waiting for something that finished ten minutes ago.

  • Arrival time, ceremony time and the time you expect to leave the building.
  • The exact door, with street and number. "Town Hall Square" is a square, not a meeting point.
  • The names of your two witnesses, so they know to arrive early and where to sit.
  • One line of dress code with a real example: "light suit, no tie, low heels for cobblestones" says more than the word "elegant".

The map is half of the invitation

A registry office has several entrances and the group splits between them. Pin the one you mean, say where people park and how many minutes the walk takes. Two lines there save twenty WhatsApp messages on the day. If the drinks or the meal happen somewhere else, put the leaving time and the second address on the same screen, not in a voice note sent three days later.

Say who is meeting people at the door, or say plainly that you'll see them inside. What doesn't work is a crowd scanning each other for a familiar face. Add the minute for family photos — "family photos on the steps at 12:10" — and the group forms itself instead of drifting while someone tries to get away for lunch.

How much does a civil wedding digital invitation cost?

One payment of €29.99 per invitation, no subscription. You can try a design free before paying: in trial mode you edit the cover, and buying unlocks all the scenes. If the court moves your slot, you change the hour or the meeting point and the link stays the same — nothing to reprint, nothing to send again.

Phone showing a digital invitation for a civil wedding on registry office steps, with a map, a clock and a small bouquet.
A digital invitation for a civil wedding has two jobs: the exact hour and the door where your people wait. Here's the structure, plus what it costs

A civil wedding runs on two facts: the hour the door opens and the spot where your people wait.

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Why digital wedding invitations suit a civil ceremony

Registry office times change, and a link absorbs that. Confirmations land inside the same invitation in one ordered list, with the questions you set, so you stop chasing replies in a chat. Guests open it in the phone browser without installing anything, and the content can be set in Spanish, Catalan, English, French, Italian, Portuguese or German when family is travelling. Be clear about the limit: it is digital, so it doesn't print or post anything. If someone wants paper in hand, print a few copies for whoever keeps things. Start with the free design trial, put your own hour and door on the page, and publish when it reads correctly.

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