Digital invitation for an island wedding: 5 decisions

It's 11:20 on the dock. Two boats are loading — one heading north, one going to the village — and half your guests are still reading a screenshot of a message from three weeks ago. Someone asks in the group chat which pier. Someone else has already joined the wrong queue. None of that is a wedding problem. It's an invitation problem, and an island wedding digital invitation settles it before anyone reaches the water.

You can set one up today from the catalogue: pick a design, edit the cover for free, pay 29,99 EUR once and publish the link with a button. No designer, no waiting on proofs, no envelope.

Your island wedding digital invitation starts at the ferry

The boat is the first thing guests check and the first thing they get wrong. Write the departure as data, not decoration: "departs 11:40 from the old harbour, last crossing back 20:15". Anyone weighing two sailings reads the link instead of calling you.

• The time copied from the ticket, not rounded: 11:40, never "late morning".
• The pier name exactly as it's printed — Muelle de Levante, not "the beach at the cove". People type that name into a map app.
• The map pin, opened and checked by you before you publish. A pin a kilometre off sends half a family to the wrong side of the island.
• The last crossing back, so nobody plans a return that left two hours earlier.

Dress code: what the best digital invitations for an island wedding spell out

Start with the ground under their feet. Thin heels and wooden planks don't get along, so write "flat sandals or wedges with a wide base" and you lose the night-before messages asking whether there's sand to cross. Say what photos can't show: the wind at seven in the evening, the dew on the lawn, dinner served on stone. "Bring a light layer" saves half a table getting up for a jumper.

Then colours. Linen, off-white and sage green hold up in island daylight; navy and black collapse into one dark shape in a sunset photo. Name the two or three that work and skip the list of everything that doesn't.

If a guest has to text you to ask which boat, the invitation isn't finished.

Six photos, one song, and edits that never need a resend

Upload up to six of your own photos — one vertical shot of the island as the cover, the rest as decoration. They frame themselves, so there's nothing to crop by hand, and you can swap any of them later, when the lighthouse photo has better light or the boat from the water should be the cover. Choose the song that plays when the invitation opens. Take the one from the last dance and the tone is set before anyone reads a date.

The practical half matters just as much. Confirmations arrive in one ordered list inside the invitation, not scattered across voice notes and "I think I'm in". Set the RSVP questions before you publish and keep only the ones you'll actually read that week. Before you pick a typeface, pick what your guest needs in order not to miss the boat: the time, the pier, the ground, and one photo that looks like the island. Start with the cover — it's free to try.

What a digital invitation for an island wedding costs

29,99 EUR for the invitation, paid once, no subscription. The cover is free to test before you pay; buying unlocks the rest of the scenes, and everything is edited in the browser, with no app to install. It is digital only: nothing gets printed or posted. If someone wants a copy for a drawer or a frame, the sensible mix is the link for everyone and a handful of prints for the two people who'll keep them. Your guests need a phone, a tablet or a laptop with a connection, so use your first message to say where the signal and the hotel wifi actually work.