Digital invitation: how many guests fit at Halloween

There are eleven of you in the group chat and enough enthusiasm to fill a warehouse. Then someone asks the question nobody wants to answer: how many guests fit in a Halloween party in a small flat? You pace the living room, count the sofa, and realise the answer matters more than the playlist. That is where a digital invitation does the work. Pick a design from the collection, add your own text and photos, send the link today, and the confirmations land in one place.

What follows are the sums to do before you buy the ice, the wording that ends the +1 conversation, and where the guest list actually lives — the three things digital invitations handle better than a group chat.

How many guests fit in a Halloween party in a small flat

Count the floor you can stand on, not the square metres in the listing. A three-seater sofa, a coffee table and a bookshelf eat 5 to 7 m² of a living room before anyone knocks. The rule I use: 1 m² per person if you want to hear each other talk, and 0.5 m² per person once the music is up. So 14 m² of clear floor is 14 people standing, or about 10 with a drinks table in the middle. Keep the bedrooms shut, too. An open bedroom turns a 20 m² flat into a flat with no capacity, and it is where someone dumps a coat on the bed.

• Sofa, coffee table and shelf: 5 to 7 m² gone before the first guest arrives.
• 1 m² per person to talk; 0.5 m² per person with the music loud.
• 14 m² of clear floor is 14 standing, or roughly 10 with a drinks table.
• Hallway and kitchen only count if the doors stay open all night.

How to word 'invited guests only' in a digital invitation

Skip 'the usual lot' and write the number. 'We're 14 inside and the sofa counts as two seats' ends the conversation before it starts. Put the address with flat and floor number, plus that line, in the place and phrase fields of the invitation: everyone reads the same version, whichever screenshot gets forwarded. One bathroom sets the pace of the night, so leave 2 m² free by the fridge or the drinks table. That is where the crush happens and where the glasses go over at eleven.

The group chat doesn't hold the list. Confirmations arrive inside the invitation, in one ordered list on the same page, and you can set the RSVP questions yourself — so you stop asking in three different chats who is bringing the ice. If the doorbell moves from 21:30 to 22:00, or the party shifts from Friday to Saturday, you edit the invitation and the link stays the same. Nobody turns up with the old version.

Do the sum, write the number, send the link — the guest list lives inside the invitation, not three hundred messages up a chat.

What a digital invitation costs for a Halloween party

29,99 EUR, one payment, no subscription. That buys one digital invitation with your texts, your photos and the RSVP list built in. Guests open it in a browser on their phone, with no app to install and no envelopes pushed through the wrong letterbox. If someone wants paper, the sensible version is the usual one: a link for everybody and two printed copies for whoever keeps them. Test the cover for free, publish it, then check the list before you buy the third bag of ice.