Digital invitation for a gala dinner in Lyon: cost

Eighty covers for a gala dinner in Lyon, a stone hall booked, and a caterer asking for numbers. Before the menu matters, there's a cost most people miss: getting 80 guests into the right room at the right time. A digital invitation handles that, and you can build and send one today from the collection.

The venue is sorted. What moves your budget is how you tell people where to be, and how many times you pay for telling them. Two lines decide it: what you spend on the invitations, and what you spend when something changes.

Gala dinner in Lyon: the bill starts before the menu

Before you sign with the chef, ask for a quote on 80 printed invitations: card, envelope, stamp and postage to each address. It's a separate line, it never shows up on the catering invoice, and it's the one that disappears when the invitation is a web page instead of a stack of card.

• Card, envelope, stamp and postage for 80 addresses: four lines that never appear on the catering invoice.
• The price and the lead time of a reprint if the cocktails move from 19:30 to 20:00.
• The trial link opened on your own phone, exactly as a guest in Lyon will see it.
• How confirmations arrive, and who reads the list before you give the caterer a final number.

What a digital invitation at 29.99 EUR includes

You're not buying a PDF or an image that gets lost in a camera roll. You get a web page for your event, built from scenes that run one after another. Names like Limewash Threshold, Long Dinner and Last Dance, each one set up with your own words and photos.

You share it with a link, a QR code or a message. Guests open it in the browser, no app to install, and confirm from the same page. Up to 6 of your own photos, music, and a separate field for the sign, the names, the date, the line and the place, with a character counter and a live preview while you type. One payment, no subscription, and the site works in 7 languages; the invitation content can be set per language too.

Change the time after sending, keep the same link

If the cocktails move from 19:30 to 20:00, or you add a map or change the dress code, you edit and publish. The link stays the same, guests see the updated version when they open it, and nobody re-sends an envelope. Confirmations arrive inside the invitation in one list: you open it and see who's coming, without scrolling through scattered messages. You set the questions on the confirmation form yourself, and publishing is one button.

A gala in Lyon doesn't get more expensive because the time moved. It gets more expensive when you print it twice.

Paper still has its place, and it isn't the printer

This is digital: nothing gets printed or posted. If someone wants something to keep, the sensible mix is a link for everyone and a few printed copies for the people who'll actually hold on to them. Guests need a phone, a tablet or a computer with a connection, so open the link away from your own wifi and check it loads from outside the city. You can edit the cover in trial mode without paying; buying unlocks every scene. With the date and the place closed, create your invitation today, edit it in the browser and publish once the sign and the time read the way you want.