Digital invitation: a Halloween zombie haunt for teens

It's 8:40 on a Friday. Eleven messages on your phone all ask the same thing — what time do we come? — and you're still taping a sheet over the coat rack in the hallway. You're building a zombie haunted house for teens out of one corridor, three pumpkins and a door that creaks whether you want it to or not. The digital invitation can be done before the tape gives up: choose a design from the catalogue, put in your own words and photos, and send the link tonight.

A digital invitation is a page of its own, not a PDF. You chain the scenes the way guests will walk them — the threshold, the house rules, your turn, the confirm button — and fill them with music and the RSVP questions you write yourself. Guests open it in a browser, nothing to install. Copy the QR onto a sheet for the front door if you like: the paper is optional, the link is the door.

How to create a digital invitation for a teenage zombie haunt

Start with the door. If it creaks open at 21:30, then 21:30 is the time on the cover — not the 20:00 when you start heating things up. Split the night into turns (20:45, 21:30, 22:15) and say which turn belongs to whom. Two friends who arrive together get the same one. If a lift runs late, you edit the time in the browser and the link stays exactly as it was: nobody re-sends anything, nobody turns up at the wrong hour.

• The time for each turn: 20:45, 21:30, 22:15, with names next to them.
• Where the queue starts: the gate with the pumpkins, the decorated garage, the corridor with the coats pushed aside.
• The late rule in six words: miss your turn, join the next group.
• The two things banned at the door: fake blood on other people's clothes, masks that block the corridor.

A zombie dress code teenagers will actually wear

Ask for one thing people recognise at a glance: dark clothes and a single zombie detail — grey smudged under the eyes, a frayed hem, a shuffle instead of a walk. Say where the makeup happens. At yours, at the kitchen table, not on the bus. One line in the dress code field and nobody has to ask you twice.

Then ban the two things that end the evening early: blood on someone else's clothes and masks that stop you seeing the corridor. If it rains and the route moves to the garage, or the corridor floods with coats, change the meeting point in the editor. Same link, updated version, no envelopes and no reprints.

Three decisions carry the whole night: the hour on the door, what people wear, and where they queue.

Why digital invitations take the panic out of the passage

Confirmations arrive in one ordered list inside the invitation, with the questions you set, so you're not scrolling through chats at eleven at night working out who's in. Change the time, the meeting point or the dress code and every guest sees the updated page. It's 29,99 EUR for the invitation, one payment, no subscription, and the site runs in seven languages if part of the group doesn't read English. Pick a design, try the cover before you pay, publish with one button and send the group a single line: your turn in the passage is 21:30, come to the front gate.