Digital invitation: Halloween mummy dinner at the hotel

The taxi drops your grandpa at the hotel at ten past seven. He has the street name on the back of a receipt and nothing else. The hotel has three doors, a wedding on the ground floor and a corridor that leads away from your room, so he stands in the lobby in his coat while the soup goes cold. A Digital invitation costs 29,99 EUR and fixes a Halloween mummy dinner for grandparents and grandchildren at a hotel in one line: the room sits on the first screen, right next to the time. Build it tonight from the catalogue and send the link before you go to bed.

That is the whole job. Pick a design, edit the cover in trial mode without paying, then buy once and every scene unlocks. Your guests install nothing: they open the link in a browser on a phone or a tablet and read the date, the hour and the name of the room.

The room is the address your guests actually use

A street gets people to the building. The room gets them to the table. Write it the way it appears on the door — "The Linden Room, ground floor, Park Hotel" — and add something you can see from outside, like carved pumpkins either side of the entrance. A taxi driver needs that second half as much as your grandpa does.

• The exact room name and floor, copied from the sign on the door.
• Door time and dinner time as two separate facts: 7:00 pm doors, 7:30 pm at the table.
• One landmark visible from the street: carved pumpkins, two lanterns, a chalkboard in the lobby.
• The name and phone number of the person standing at the entrance in case someone gets lost.

How to word a digital invitation for a Halloween mummy dinner

Aim for a creaking door, not a jump scare. Grandchildren laugh at bandages and paper cobwebs; grandparents would rather not be startled before the first course. One line gives the joke and lets everyone off the hook: "Come wrapped, but come hungry." Anyone with a black shirt is already dressed, and nobody has to buy anything.

Then fill the fields properly. Label, names, date, phrase and place each have their own box with a character counter, so "The Linden Room" does not come out as "The Linden Ro". You can add up to six photos — the table with candles, dark cloth, a plate of something orange — and swap the cover later without touching the link. Digital invitations also survive second thoughts: change the hour after you send and the same link shows the new version.

The room, the door and the time: three lines that stop a phone call from a hotel lobby.

The RSVP sits inside the invitation, not in a group chat

Confirmations land in an ordered list inside the same invitation, so nobody has to ask "so are you coming on Saturday?" three days later. You write the questions yourself: whether both grandparents are coming or just one, which saves you a chair at the table. Change the room or the hour and there is nothing to resend, because guests open the same link and read the updated version.

What a digital invitation costs for a family Halloween dinner

29,99 EUR per invitation, one payment, no subscription. It is digital, so nothing is printed or posted; if your grandma wants a copy for the fridge, print one sheet yourself and let everyone else use the link. Guests need a phone, a tablet or a computer with a connection. If one of them uses none of those, a phone call on top of the link settles the evening.

So write the room as it appears on the door, put the hour on the first screen and set the deadline where people confirm. Choose a design, fill in your own details and share the link: the mummy dinner starts at the right door, not in a lobby with patterned carpet.