Digital invitation: Halloween garage party etiquette

Someone in the block asks what time it starts. Someone else hears "eight" and turns up at ten past seven with a five-year-old in a pumpkin suit, while you are still unrolling fake cobwebs across the garage door. The evening isn't ruined, but you spend the first twenty minutes explaining instead of decorating. Halloween invitation etiquette for a haunted garage party with the neighbours comes down to one thing: the rules get written down before the decorations come out. A digital invitation from the catalogue does that, and you can build and send yours today.

No printer, no app, no designer. Pick a design, type the hour, the entry door, the age limit and the one line about the neighbours' baby, then drop the link in the group chat. The confirmations and every later change stay in the same place.

Halloween invitation etiquette for a haunted garage party

Start with the hour, written in figures. "From 8" is a riddle: it could be morning, evening, or whenever the host finishes dinner. If the garage door opens at 20:00, that is what the invitation says.

• Put it exactly like this next to the address: "Door opens at 20:00 sharp."
• Add a line for the early birds: "If you're here before 20:00 you'll find us finishing the cobwebs. We open when the bell rings."
• If there are kids in the block, use two timings: "Children's parade in the entrance hall, 19:00 to 19:45" and "Haunted garage: 20:00 onwards." Nobody brings a six-year-old to the hour of the scares.
• Say how people get in: through the garage door, not the main entrance, stairs clear for neighbours, music down at 23:30.

Digital invitations for neighbours: how to word the scares

Instead of "no children", write the format. From 20:00 the haunted garage is for ages 14 and up, and the little ones have their own round earlier. That reads as a plan, not as a bouncer on the doorstep. Name the scare too, with humour and no gore: doors that creak, badly ironed sheets, nothing worse. A parent works out in ten seconds whether to come.

Leave one name in the invitation. "If your kid still wants to go in, talk to Marta in 3B before the 28th." A real name and a flat number spare everyone the group chat at eleven at night. Same with the bell: ask people not to ring 1A, they have a baby.

A garage party holds together on two lines: the hour the door opens, and the name of the person you ask when something changes.

What the invitation should clear up before the door creaks

Say who brings what: each family brings something to share, you're doing glasses and ice. The cover photo does part of the job, because a shot of the garage with carved pumpkins and candles on the table says more than three lines about the atmosphere. You can upload up to six photos and choose which one sits on the cover. And if the neighbour from the first floor would rather have paper, print two copies for her kitchen corkboard and keep the link for everybody else.

How much does a digital invitation cost for a Halloween party?

One payment of 29.99 EUR, no subscription. For that you get a page of your own: your texts, your photos, the music you want, and a confirmation form where you write the questions yourself. Confirmations arrive inside the invitation in one ordered list, so you know how many chairs to drag into the garage. Change the hour, the door or the dress code later and the link stays the same — guests see the updated version, and nothing gets reprinted. Pick a design, fill in the fields and send it tonight.