Digital invitation: a Halloween WhatsApp cottage weekend

It's 11pm on Tuesday and the group chat has 47 messages. One is a voice note about parking. One is a meme of a cat in a witch hat. Somewhere in there are the cottage address and the time you told everyone to arrive, and nobody can find either. Someone asks again. Someone answers with a thumbs up and a question mark. This is where a Digital invitation earns its keep: one link, pinned at the top, and the details stop moving.

You can build it today. Pick a design from the catalogue — digital invitations can be filtered by style, so choosing the look takes a minute — write the arrival time, the cottage name and who brings the pumpkin, then send one link. It opens in any browser on any phone, with no app to install.

One Halloween WhatsApp invitation for the cottage weekend

Send one message with the link and pin it to the top of the chat. That pinned message is the plan for the weekend: the Friday arrival time, the cottage name, the map, and the answer to 'wait, what time?' at half past ten at night.

• The pinned link: arrival time, cottage name and map in one place, not on message 47.
• Who brings the pumpkin, who brings the candles and who brings the extension lead for the porch.
• The dress code in two words — black, or nothing.
• The deadline to reply, written on the invitation instead of asked three times in the chat.

A Digital invitation you can edit after you've sent it

The cottage confirms 8pm instead of 7pm. You open the editor, change the hour, save. The link stays the same. Nobody scrolls back through the chat looking for an old message, because the invitation they open already says 8pm.

Same with the meeting point, the map or the line on the threshold. Swap a blurry cover photo for a sharp one and mark it as the cover. Guests see the updated version. No reprinting, no resending, no 'ignore my last message'.

A Halloween invitation doesn't need to be spooky. It needs to say 8pm, the cottage, and who's bringing the pumpkin.

How much does a Digital invitation cost, and what you get

29.99 EUR per invitation. One payment, no subscription, even if the weekend stretches into Sunday. Play with the cover in try mode before you pay, then unlock every scene: texts with one field per detail and a character counter, up to six of your own photos, music, and RSVP questions you write yourself.

Six photos before anyone crosses the doorway

Start at the door: carved pumpkins on the step, the porch lamp wrapped in cotton-wool cobwebs, the long table, the fireplace where the night ends. Photos frame themselves, so there's nothing to crop by hand. Change the cover whenever you like — the link doesn't change with it.

The doorway will creak on Friday whether you're ready or not. Before then: pick a design, write the time, replace the cover if it doesn't convince you, and send one link to the group. A Digital invitation gets the whole weekend organised in one message instead of forty.