Digital invitation: Halloween zombie dinner on WhatsApp

At 8:10 on the pier, four people in office ties are staring at a boat that isn't theirs. Someone forwarded a screenshot at four in the afternoon; someone else screenshotted that screenshot at seven. One version says berth 3, another says the far end of the dock, and the group chat has forty-one messages and no map. Halloween invitations on WhatsApp for a zombie dinner fall apart right here — not at the party, on the walk to it. A digital invitation fixes that before you send anything: you pick a design from the catalogue, type the details once, and the link is live today.

A digital invitation is a web page for your party, not a picture of one. Guests open the link in the browser they already have, on the phone they already hold, and tap confirm. No app, no download, nobody asking you to resend the map at half past seven.

A digital invitation link that still says 8:00 at 8:07

The page holds the time, the boat's name and the exact berth: "Berth 3, end of the dock". If the harbourmaster moves you to the other side, or dinner slips to nine, you edit that field and the same link shows the new version. Nobody re-forwards an envelope. On a Lisbon dock, that's the difference between a full table and half your guests watching the wrong stretch of water.

• The time and the exact berth, typed once and editable until the last minute.
• A map pin, so nobody ends up on the next pier looking at your boat's lights.
• A photo of the dock entrance or the boat's front, so people recognise it after dark.
• The dress code line: "office zombie — tie and dark circles".

Halloween invitations on WhatsApp for a zombie dinner, on one screen

One field per detail: the boat's name, the date, the place and the line you actually care about. There's a character counter, so you can see when a joke is running too long for the frame. The preview updates in the browser while you type, with nothing to install.

You can add up to six of your own photos — the front of the boat, the table with candles, the hand-drawn sign on the cabin door — and they frame themselves. Pick which one is the cover, swap it later if you change your mind. Add music if you want. Choose which questions guests answer when they confirm. Most digital invitations look identical in a chat until you open one.

If the berth changes at seven, you don't send forty-one messages. You change the berth.

How much does a digital invitation cost — and what it doesn't do

29.99 EUR per invitation, paid once, no subscription. You can try it free: edit the cover in test mode, then buy to unlock every scene. The site comes in seven languages and the invitation content can be set per language, which helps when half the boat reads Portuguese or English. What it doesn't do is print, post or hand out paper. If someone wants a copy for the fridge, the sensible version is one link for everyone plus a couple of prints for whoever keeps things.

If you have the date and the berth, the only thing missing is everyone seeing the same version of them. Try the cover for free, publish the link when it's right, and drop it in the group chat with a pumpkin. The confirmations land inside the invitation in one list, so you know who's coming before you buy the ice.