Digital invitation: Halloween lantern tea on WhatsApp

It's ten to six on the last Saturday in October. Six kids in costumes are already in the garden, the candles are still in the box and someone in the class WhatsApp group asks, again, what time it starts. That is the moment a Halloween digital invitation earns its keep: one screen, one link, 18:00, the pool, bring your torch. You can pick a design from the catalogue, put your own words on it and send the link this evening.

Here is what goes on that invitation, in what order, and what to leave out.

The Halloween digital invitation that gets read with a torch in one hand

At six o'clock people look at the phone standing up, holding a torch in the other hand. Everything that matters has to fit on one vertical screen: time, place and the line bring your torch, with no scrolling. An attached PDF disappears between memes in the group chat; a link that opens straight in the browser, with nothing to install, gets tapped once and read. The first screen does most of the work: if the cover is the pool at dusk with candles on the table, a parent gets the plan before reading a word.

• Send the link or the QR in the first message, not the fifth: 'here it is, it opens in your browser, nothing to install'.
• Write the time plainly, 18:00, and put the line that sums it up next to it: bring your torch.
• Give the address a human reference: 'the house with the orange pumpkin by the pool'.
• Ask for the reply inside the invitation, not in the chat.

The key line goes at the top: bring your torch

That sentence has its own field, with a character counter so it doesn't break on a phone screen. A short line beats a paragraph: '18:00, garden, torch, clothes that can get wet' says more than six lines of explanation. Most digital invitations get read once, quickly, so the useful detail goes high up. If families in the group read in another language, the content can be set in Spanish, English, Catalan, French, Italian, Portuguese or German.

At six in late October it is already dusk: the tea starts in daylight and the candles go on at the end, and saying that sets the mood before anyone arrives. With children aged 6 to 10 around a pool, write 'come with an adult' and 'clothes that can get wet' in the event text, without turning it into a safety notice. Keep it a playful mystery — a creaking gate, carved pumpkins by the porch — and nothing that genuinely scares a seven-year-old.

If one screen answers when, where and what to bring, the group chat stops asking.

From the first candle to the last: how it comes together in the editor

Pick a design from the collection, test it free by editing the cover, and buying unlocks every scene in the invitation. Inside you set the wording, add up to six of your own photos that frame themselves, add music and choose the questions you want answered on the RSVP. If rain moves the tea from the pool to the porch, change the hour or the place and the link stays the same — nobody has to resend anything.

What a digital invitation costs for a Halloween tea

It costs 29.99 EUR, paid once: no subscription, no paper, no reprinting when a detail changes. The replies land inside the invitation in one ordered list with the questions you set, so you are not chasing answers across WhatsApp. Guests only need a phone, tablet or laptop with a connection; if someone wants a copy for the fridge, print that one separately. Choose the design tonight and publish the link before the first candle is lit.