Digital invitation for a hen party: split the costs

Three weeks to go. The group chat has 380 messages and maybe two of them are useful. Someone asks who's actually coming, someone else answers with a sticker, and you still don't know how many beds to book or what to ask each person for. Fix it today: a digital invitation from the catalogue does the asking, and you can build it and send the link before dinner.

Nothing about the weekend is complicated. Dinner, a minibus, a cottage, matching tops, a cake. What never gets written down is the hen party cost split — who paid for what, who still owes, and who has quietly been covering the bride's drinks since Friday night. Get that straight and the rest runs on its own.

What a hen party cost split actually includes

These are the lines that decide what everyone owes. Write them down before you book anything, because the difference between a set menu and ordering off the menu is the difference between a fixed number and an argument at 1am.

• Dinner and drinks: a set menu per person is one number. Ordering off the menu is not, so pick the format before you tell anyone the price.
• Transport: the return minibus or the 2am taxis. Decide early whether it's split evenly or only between the people who use it.
• Accommodation: nights, beds and who's sleeping over. Book the beds you've actually confirmed, not the ones you're hoping for.
• Party kit: the matching tops, the decorations, the sash, the cake and the bride's shots. If these aren't on the list from day one, they end up on one person's card.

Digital invitations turn a noisy group chat into a guest list

"I think I can make it" doesn't reserve a table. With 14 people, the question "who's coming?" gets buried under memes in about two minutes, and someone ends up retyping the whole list by hand. Confirmations land inside the invitation itself, in one ordered list, instead of scattered across the chat, Instagram DMs and two phone calls.

You also decide what the RSVP form asks, so the answers you need to close numbers are on the first screen. And set a deadline you can actually hold: without one, three new yeses appear 48 hours before the weekend and the per-head price you agreed no longer adds up.

The weekend isn't hard to plan. The arithmetic is. Put the numbers and the replies in the same link and nobody has to chase anyone.

Three ways to split the cost without being the group's bank

Fixed price per person: add everything up, divide it, send one number, and anyone who wants extras pays for those separately. Two instalments: a deposit when you book the cottage or the minibus, the rest the week before, so one person isn't floating hundreds for a month. Or a small kitty per head for taxis, ice and tips, with whatever's left handed back equally.

How much does a digital invitation for a hen party cost?

29,99 EUR, paid once, no subscription. Guests open the link in the browser on their phone, with no app to download. You can set up the cover for free before you pay, and once it's published you can change the time, the restaurant or the meeting point and the link stays the same, so nobody gets a second message.

Send the link tonight and let the replies arrive in order while you choose the restaurant. A digital invitation from Send The Joy costs 29,99 EUR, one payment, and you can edit it as often as you like without resending anything.