Digital Invitation for a Halloween Skeleton Supper

The house is booked for 31 October. There are 24 of you, one long table in the dining room, and someone has already promised to bring a plastic skeleton for the hallway. The bit that always gets left to the last week is telling those 24 people where to be and at what time. You can build a digital invitation today from the catalogue and have the link out before the pumpkins start to sag.

The question that stops most hosts is the price. So here it is in the open: what the €29.99 covers, what 24 die-cut cards, envelopes and stamps cost you in money and evenings, and where each option stops working.

How much does a Halloween digital invitation cost? Line by line

One payment of €29.99 per invitation. No monthly subscription, no fee per guest. It costs the same whether you send it in September, when you book the house, or on the 30th. What you get for it is a web page for your event — not a PDF and not an image that ends up squashed on your cousin's phone screen.

• One payment of €29.99, no subscription, and you can edit it as many times as you need.
• Every scene unlocked, with music and up to 6 photos of your own: the cover and the decorative ones.
• No cost per guest — 12 at the table or 24, the price doesn't move.
• The same price if the supper slips to the 1st of November and you have to change the date.

Digital invitations vs 24 die-cut cards, envelopes and stamps

With paper you buy or order 24 die-cut cards, 24 envelopes and 24 stamps. Then come the pens, the scissors and an afternoon at the kitchen table writing 24 names by hand. Put your own stationery and postage prices next to the €29.99 and do the sum yourself.

A country house adds its own problems. If one envelope stays at the bottom of a bag, nobody tells you. If the supper moves from 14:30 to 15:00, you're ringing 24 people one by one. On a digital invitation you change the time in the editor, the link stays the same, and everyone reads the new version. If someone in the family keeps paper, mix the two: the link for all 24, a handful of printed copies for whoever files them away in a drawer.

You're not paying for a picture. You're paying for a page that can change without a second trip to the post office.

One link, 24 guests, confirmations in a single list

You share it as a link, a QR code or a message, and nobody installs anything: guests open it in the browser on their phone, patchy signal at the edge of the village included. Date and time each have their own field, so it reads 14:30 and not 'supper', with a preview as you type and a character counter so nothing gets cut off. Mark which photo is the cover — the door with the pumpkins, say — and swap it later for the hallway with the cobwebs; the link doesn't change. Confirmations land inside the invitation in one ordered list, and the RSVP questions are the ones you write, so if you want to know who's bringing a child, that's your question to add. No chasing replies on WhatsApp the week before.

Pick a design from the collection, filter by style if you already know what you're after, and edit the cover in test mode for free — you only pay when you buy, and buying unlocks every scene. Everything is set up in Joy Studio in the browser, nothing to install, and the invitation works in Spanish, English, Catalan, French, Italian, Portuguese and German, with the content configurable per language. Then you publish with one button. The supper is on the 31st; the link can be out tonight.