Digital invitation for a day wedding with an after-party

Lunch ends at six. Cake is cut, the last toast is done, and thirty people are standing around the courtyard wondering whether the day is over. It isn't: the dancing starts at 00:30 in the stone room twelve minutes down the road. A day wedding with an after-party runs on two times, and if the second one only lives in your head you'll spend the whole evening answering the same question. A digital invitation puts both times on one page you can send today: pick a design from the catalogue, try it free, and pay only when you publish.

Because this isn't one event. It's a long lunch and a late night held together by a couple of hours of coffee and cake. Say so on the invitation, or the guests coming only for the dancing won't know when to arrive, and the ones who came for lunch won't know whether to go home and change.

Digital invitation for a day wedding with an after-party: write two times

Put two clock times in the text. '13:00, ceremony in the garden' and '00:30, after-party in the stone room.' Write 'in the evening' instead and half your list will message you on the day asking what's going on. Mark the break between lunch and dancing as well — coffee and cake at 18:00, bar opens at 00:00 — so anyone joining late knows when to walk in without landing in the middle of the speeches.

• Two written times: '13:00, ceremony in the garden' and '00:30, after-party in the stone room'
• A scene of its own for the after-party, with its own photo and line, so it reads as a second invitation inside the same one
• The after-party address or meeting point, even if it's twelve minutes away
• The line that settles the change: 'flat shoes from midnight'

What changes at midnight: shoes, jacket and place

Say the real change out loud: 'Day dress from 13:00 to 20:00. After that, whatever survives the dancing.' Then nobody calls to ask about a jacket.

If the after-party is somewhere else, give the distance and how to get there: 'twelve minutes by car, parking at the door.' If it's on the same estate, say that too — 'nothing to move, the bar goes up in the covered patio' — so nobody drives home to change and misses the first song.

Two times on the page beat twenty WhatsApp replies on the day.

The after-party gets confirmed late, and the link still works

Venues give you the final time two weeks before, not six months before. Change the hour, the place, the map or the dress code after you've sent the invitation and the link stays the same. No second message, no reprint. If the after-party falls through, you delete that scene and the link people already have stops showing the old plan.

The RSVP tells you who is staying for the dancing

Add a question to the confirmation form — 'Are you staying for the dancing?' — and the answers land inside the same invitation, in one ordered list. No chasing forty people one by one to find out who's still there at two in the morning. And when you send round the photo of the last dance, you know who to send it to.

Write the daylight time and the midnight time, and let each guest decide how long they stay. A digital invitation costs 29,99 EUR, you change those times whenever you need to, and the replies arrive in the same link. Pick a design, try it free, and publish today.