Digital invitation: 3 Halloween mummy party mistakes

Half past ten on Halloween. The garage door is up, the carved pumpkins are down to their last candle, and four mummies are still drifting between the crates because nobody knows when this is meant to end. The party isn't the problem. The invitation is. You can build and send a digital invitation for a Halloween mummy party in a decorated garage today, straight from the catalogue, and fix the three things that go wrong every year: no end time, a door nobody finds, and a costume rule that scares people off.

Three lines do most of the work: when it starts, when it stops, where the door is. A digital invitation is a page of its own for your party, not a picture in a chat. Guests open the link in a browser, read the times, tap the map and confirm from their phone. Nothing to install, nothing to print.

Your Halloween mummy party ends when you say it does

Write both hours in full — '6:30 pm to 9:00 pm' — not 'from late afternoon'. Skip the end time and at eleven you still have six mummies between the crates and a neighbour leaning on the buzzer. An arrival window handles the rest: 'come between 6:30 and 7:15' keeps the crowd at the door away from the cake moment.

• Two times in full, near the top of the invitation: '6:30 pm to 9:00 pm', not buried in a last paragraph nobody scrolls to.
• An arrival window — 'come between 6:30 and 7:15' — so everyone doesn't land on the cake at once.
• The hour the music goes off, if your garage opens onto a courtyard. That's the line that keeps the upstairs neighbour quiet.
• One plain sentence instead of an emoji: 'we close the garage door at nine'.

The house number is the first thing that disappears

A street name gets nobody into a garage at night. You need the number, the floor, the door, and the sentence that does the real work: 'garage at the back of the courtyard, green shutter'. If the entrance hides behind the bins, say so. 'Near the park' is not an address.

Put a photo of the decorated door inside the invitation — the pumpkins on the step, the cobwebs on the frame — so people recognise it from the street with a bowl in one hand. Then place the map link right there. Someone arriving from another neighbourhood shouldn't be retyping your address into a second app while the first mummies are already inside.

Two times, a door you can see from the street and a costume nobody has to buy: that's an invitation people answer.

How to write a digital invitation for a mummy party

The costume rule is where half the guest list quietly drops out. 'Mummies only, mandatory' closes the door on anyone leaving the office at six. Write instead that a light T-shirt and a white bandage is plenty. Add one escape line: if a costume isn't your thing, bring something sweet and you're in. And say what isn't needed — no fake blood, no masks covering the eyes — because parents read that line twice before they answer.

Then the answers. Confirmations arrive in one ordered list inside the invitation, so you're not counting 'yes' messages across forty WhatsApps the night before. Send one link rather than a screenshot: screenshots blur, get cropped, and stay wrong when you move the start to seven. Digital invitations keep working after you send them — change the time, the map or the dress code and the same link shows the new version. You can add up to six photos, the decorated shutter, the candlelit table, the door with the cobwebs, and choose which one is the cover. One price, 29,99 EUR, paid once.

Before you hit send, read it the way a tired parent will: start and end time, the right door, a costume they can skip. Sort those three tonight and the only thing left to worry about is whether the candles last until nine. Pick a design, try it free and send the link while the pumpkins are still fresh.