Digital invitation for a hen do: a price comparison

It's the week before the hen do and the plan lives in a group chat: a PDF someone put together at midnight, a screenshot of the restaurant booking, and forty messages asking whether the train is at ten or eleven. Someone has to answer every one of them. This is the job a digital invitation does differently, and you can pick a design, fill it in and send the link today from the catalogue.

What follows is the price comparison for digital invitations for a hen party: what the price covers, what comes with it, and where a free-looking option ends up costing you an afternoon of chasing replies.

What a digital invitation for a hen do costs

Look at the shape of the price first. A monthly plan is not the same as a single payment, especially when twelve of you are splitting the bill and one person puts it on their card. A Send The Joy invitation is 29,99 EUR, paid once, with no subscription. Testing the design is free: you edit the cover, see how it looks, and only pay when you want the whole thing. Buying unlocks every scene and the RSVP. Put the cost of the night on the same page too, dinner, drinks, the matching T-shirt, so nobody has to ask you in a private message whether dinner is included.

• Is the price a one-off or a monthly subscription?
• Is the RSVP part of the invitation, or a form you have to chase somewhere else?
• How many of your own photos fit, and can you change the cover after sending?
• Do guests have to install an app, or does the link open in a browser?

Digital invitations vs a PDF vs the group chat

The PDF is fine until the restaurant moves you to eight o'clock. Then the old version keeps going round the chat and half the group turns up an hour early. The group chat is fine until you need numbers: you end up messaging people one at a time to ask who's coming to dinner and who's only there for the toast. Both feel free because the cost lands on your time instead.

A digital invitation is a page of its own. You share a link, a QR code or a message; guests open it in whatever browser is on their phone and confirm from there. Nothing to install. Time, address, photos and the plan sit in one place, in the version you last edited.

A PDF is a version of the plan. A link is the plan.

What a hen party invitation has to get right

One field per piece of information (label, names, date, line and place) so the bride's name doesn't fight the design. The character counter stops you before the layout breaks. Up to six of your own photos: the flight, last year's toast, the house you rented. You choose the cover, the rest frame themselves, and you can swap any photo later. The RSVP lives on the same page, with the questions you set yourself, and the confirmations arrive in an ordered list instead of scattered through the chat.

The part that saves the weekend is editing after you send. Move dinner to nine, change the meeting point, add a dress code, fix a typo: the link stays the same and everyone sees the new version. Nothing to resend, no second PDF. The site and the invitation work in seven languages, with the content set per language, which helps if someone in the group is visiting from abroad.

One honest limit: this is digital. Nothing gets printed or posted. If the bride's grandmother or the maid of honour wants something to hold, the sensible move is a link for everyone plus a few printed copies for the people who'll keep them. Guests need a phone, a tablet or a laptop with a connection, and it's worth saying in the message that there's nothing to download.

So do the maths with your own hen do in front of you: one link, 29,99 EUR paid once, and every confirmation in the same place. That weighs a lot less than a PDF lost in the chat and a spreadsheet nobody updates. Pick a design, try it free, and publish when the plan is settled.